This hiring problem is the full responsibility of the executive suite, the CEO, and the board. Let's not get confused. Contributing factors include RTO, re-calibration, off-shoring, reducing benefits to employees (new titles less comphension, quarterly to yearly 401k matching, removal of bonus targets, no raises, evaluations based on everyone with same title, etc), not promoting internal employees, recruiter (and now employee) bonuses for external hires, the mismanaged implementation of DE&I that is being forced upon us because of the racist CEO, poor technology implementation, asset cap and consent order, the list goes on and on. Inability to attract talent 'cheaply' (does not seem to apply to executives) is a leadership problem. We had talent. Instead of harvesting that talent, leadership chose to dehumanize everyone who was not an executive (during the Great Resignation nonetheless), and the talent left (surprised pikachu face).