If your company is hiring, has the bar really increased due to high supply or the company is in no hurry to hire (or even faking it)?

I am seeing most of the companies hiring. But have noticed many to be randomly removing those openings and then at the end being extremely picky.

People who are part of the interview loops, can you share some insights?

Update: Thanks for all the comments guys. It's very strange. People are at 2 ends of the spectrum here. Some saying they are being picky and some saying performance has dipped. Very weird.

To be honest the whole process is broken I think. We should be able to judge a person's skill at least. Because even with skills a person might not be able to contribute in the environment because of cultural mismatch, loss of motivation or some other personal issue. If we are struggling with skills itself, it's just all random at this point. A good business opportunity to have some kind of global certification here like we have those cfa levels.

I also think, a lot of us are struggling with over stimulation from data. We have lost the focus that we used to have at our peaks, which impacts the problem solving during interviews. I know i have.