I'm not a recruiter, but my company is currently hiring, and it's _tough_. The top talent goes to FAANG (that's still hiring) and the talent after that goes to interesting startups. We're a boring but successful company. Of the 70 applicants in our initial wave, we found 3 who mostly met the qualifications, two of whom cancelled their interviews thirty minutes prior.

I have a few inferences here. There's a lot of talent in the pool right now, but A. They're being scooped up by more attractive companies B. They're not feeling desperate enough to work at a boring company. Both of those would indicate that people are still hiring, and they're hiring for desirable roles.

There's a lot of gloom and doom at the big tech companies right now, but it doesn't appear to reflect the state of the entire industry.