I was searching starting in October, but not laid off. I applied to ~20 places, didn't hear back from any of them. I turned on #OpenToWork on LinkedIn and got ~

I was searching starting in October, but not laid off. I applied to ~20 places, didn't hear back from any of them. I turned on #OpenToWork on LinkedIn and got ~150 recruiters reaching out per month, of which <4% were offering competitive compensation. I got to the hiring manager stage for 75% of the ones I responded to, and failed 100% of the leetcode style programming challenges I was given. Two companies didn't have that round, so I made it to the offer stage on both of those, and accepted one in December. I didn't use my network at all. Recruiter outreach has dried up significantly on LinkedIn, so I'm not sure this is still valid, even though it was <2 months ago.