Not my experience (did job hunt a couple of months back).
Standards are quite high, and the economy obviously isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as that.
I have found signal to noise on LinkedIn to be quite bad now but that’s specific to that site IME.
> Not my experience (did job hunt a couple of months back).
Do you think your network and/or having high in-demand skills might have something to do with that?
Wasn’t network. Skillset definitely but it’s nothing niche - typescript, node, react and some relevant domain experience.
"high in-demand skills might have something to do with that?"
Isn't this always the case? If a skill is not in-demand, why would you get paid a good salary for it?
I'm glad you had a relatively good experience but for many mid "average" software engineers, this is absolutely the case.
And by "average" I mean:
- did not go to prestigious college
- do not have 8 years of specialized experience
- have not worked at faang level company
- struggle to do multiple leetcode hards in an interview
- are not cheating with ai tools and/or straight up lying about experience
i can, with full confidence, tell you that the reports of these developers sending out hundreds (if not thousands) of applications without any progress is absolutely the norm at this moment.
You don't need to believe me, just look at the data. There's been hundreds of thousands of software developers laid off in the past years and not enough job openings to make up for it.