4 to 1? Where is this land of milk and honey? I'm seeing 25-1, even 30-1.

the EIT jobs have 400-1000.

I've seen as high as 2700+. On top of that, wages as low as $35,500, asking for experience. That's less than the lowest paying co-ops I was offered with no-experience years ago.

It wasn't nearly this bad before Covid hit either, despite what people keep trying to tell me.

I'm seeing the same thing and being told the exact same stuff. Engineering is seriously top heavy. Once you start to hit 5-7 years with with a P.Eng then the competition is very low and the wages ramp up like crazy and things start to go very well. But until then I guess they just expecting you keep eating shit, and listening to them say they can't find anyone. That's a cope, because they can't be bothered to actually do the hiring, aside from outsourcing it to HR, who isn't typically the best judge of technical candidates.