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Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by jzb on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:49PM (#32929606)
The job market seems to have cooled substantially from where I'm looking. I have friends at a lot of different major tech companies and hiring has slowed or stopped in all cases. Earlier this year it was full steam ahead hiring, now it's harder to get reqs, reqs are being pulled, etc.

Now, if you have really in-demand skills / experience that may not matter much. But companies are slamming on the breaks. If I was laid off tomorrow I'd expect it to take twice as long to find a job as it would've at the end of 2021 or early this year. Not "there aren't any jobs" but I wouldn't consider this a "hot" market for the majority of roles.

Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by marktangotango on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:52PM (#32930613)
I think the parent was posting ironically or forgot to add the \s? Otherwise, yeah, folks need to hang on to those '21/'22 salaries if they can. We may not see those again for some time.
Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by iepathos on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @04:49PM (#32931330)
Yeah, it definitely depends on what your occupation is. If you're a software engineer it's still crazy hot right now.
Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by ZephyrBlu on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:57PM (#32933608)
The poster above is talking about the SWE job market... If you think it's "crazy hot" at the moment what did you think it was last year?
Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by mmmpop on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:13PM (#32931607)
I presume it’s web dev because good lord the market doesn’t need more people that only know how to do a React.