47 ms·

I've been laid off only once this year (thankfully?), still no offers after 4 months of interviewing. I am a mid level engineer and I feel like I am getting kno

• giobox 3y ago
  Assuming you are in the US, 2020 saw the start of one of the most ridiculous hiring markets in the industry's history, so it should perhaps not come as a surprise - Meta alone added 13,000 employees in 2020, increasing headcount 30%. Many others did the same trying to ride that Covid wave during 2020/21 - future years may well look lean in comparison. Summer 2020 seeming good compared to 2023 should not feel surprising given what we know took place in the job market. This stayed hot right into early 2022 too. When large firms like Meta and Google go on giant hiring sprees like we saw in 2020, it indirectly pushes up compensation offers from a lot of other software companies who also had to try to match these deals if they wanted to hire anyone good at all - everyone ends up competing with the large company offers. With those taps turned off, I've certainly noticed offers cooling too.