Did anyone notice the trend of dilution of candidate quality along with inflation of titles in the past few years? NLP engineers who could mention BERT but nothing else? Recommender experts who couldn't articulate the landscape of recommendation algorithms or their approach of selecting algorithms? Distributed engineers who could draw a few boxes yet couldn't explain or use any single concept in distributed systems? Tech lead who could barely recommend a concrete solution, let alone offering detailed analysis of pros and cons?

A reset in the industry seems a good thing for the health of this sector.