Caveat Lector: I'm east coast, so YMMV. Everything I've heard suggests there's a lot of decisions that are waiting on financial reporting for the quarter befor

Caveat Lector: I'm east coast, so YMMV. Everything I've heard suggests there's a lot of decisions that are waiting on financial reporting for the quarter before the C-suites make their hiring decisions. MS is not just laying off, they have frozen internal hiring between groups and even projects inside of groups. AWS is waiting on financials, my contact over there is looking to move back to MITRE because he's worried, and he has high-side access. I know a couple of start ups in the area have had their buyouts put in a holding pattern. Nothing is dire, but the general vibe is "calm before the storm".