5 emails a week is only 260 a year. That's fewer companies than a single YC intake. I don't think it'd be hard to write a LinkedIn profile that matches positions at most startups (a few popular languages, interests in trendy tech, open to remote or in a popular location, senior skillset with lower years experience maybe indicating good-but-cheap). That would get you lots of recruitment attention. It doesn't mean anything is odd in the startup market (but obviously it doesn't mean everything is fine either, it just isn't a strong signal either way).
260 a year is a lot since a single there is a huge pool of candidates, and you really just need 1 of them to fill a position. in my experience, the pendulum has swung towards the candidates having leverage and ghosting. 2008 and even 2013 did not seem so.
It seems to be ruled by the mighty dollar, yet is like a force of crazy strength in its ability to naturally select out the strongest.
Sometimes that strength is existing connections and money, though there are those rare times where a truly novel idea breaks free, a truly beautiful design, or something truly good is made.
Is that worth the evil it does?
I don’t know, let the capitalists and socialists fight it out.
