You did the right thing. The one and only time it took a week for me to go from verbal to written offer (with poor / spotty communication in between) was, as ex

You did the right thing. The one and only time it took a week for me to go from verbal to written offer (with poor / spotty communication in between) was, as expected, a dumpster fire when I finally joined. If they can't get their act together for interviewing and hiring, they're going to have a much harder time attracting talented engineers and probably have serious management problems internally. You dodged a bullet. > It appears the balance of power has shifted back to employers As a counterpoint, I haven't experienced any decreased demand and am still having an easy time interviewing for what I want. I think some of the discourse around this is employers wanting to scare devs into taking lower comp, similar to how a number of very profitable companies immediately and significantly raised prices in response to inflation discourse.