Why would the base their HQ in a tax heavy state like California, specifically the Bay Area and build multibillion dollar office buildings? Access to UC Berkeley and Stanford has historically been the answer.
In a few years kids who grew up on zoom looking to go to the office and have the communal experience that escaped them. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and the bank always owns the land on either side of said fence.
All the companies meeting their earnings are back (Msft, Tesla, Apple… curious to see what FB does, but I think Elon is going to want asses in seats so to speak). I can see the articles being written now.
All that to say, you'll be fine.
The ones jump when the salary is the highest are now in more peculiar position than the others, if the company decided to trim itself down.
E5+ and managers are unaffected
Their take was startups leveraging the cloud are dead to VCs except in certain niche situations
The proles are always behind the trends
Apple jumped into content creation after Alice neutered software patents. Copyright is Disney level bread and butter now
There are few real markets for CRUD app startups which are just the same old shit with a marketing angle painted on top
Docker pull that shit and run it local.
Starting to look like I missed the golden job market between this and Meta/Twitter hiring freezes.