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I had a friend with plenty of experience in HR get laid off. He looked for a job for 13 months. One of the top 3 smartest people I’ve ever known looked for seven months and had to take a big step back in his career, despite having Amazon and Home Depot on his resume. Both of them said that even getting an interview was almost impossibly hard. These are people in different parts of the county, and in different industr…
Location probably matters, where are you?
Post your resume/credentials and university. Pointless to talk outside of that.
I saw this shitstorm brewing back in Jul 2025. Gave up on finding a job. Started 100% looking for cofounding (or at a minimum being a founding engineer in a startup). Networked like crazy. Landed exactly what I wanted. Cool startup, motivated people around me, money to burn on crazy projects. If I had stayed for job hunting, I would be unemployed IMO.
i'm also pivoting in this direction after attending too many sessions and networking, but getting it a point of employment does not seem a reality.
From my non objective, not looking but I try to stay as informed as possible across South Africa, Europe, US perspective and regularly talk to people on both sides and ask them directly - it's not as bad as it was in the last several months - it's still very hard to get noticed, get interviews, etc there's so much noise on both sides that personal references are much more important than front door applications. This…
I think this needs to be caveated by the fact that the job market is seasonal. The beginning of the year is usually the best part for jobs since departments have shiny new budgets, with a boost again around March-April as people quit after getting their bonuses triggering of another set of churn.
There's no monolithic "Job Market", so specific details matter. I have not been tracking details too closely but here are two things I am tracking: - CRUD generation by running through JIRA tickets and clearing backlogs seem to be replaced by agentic workflows. So if you were an extremely productive dev who would machete your way through CRUD and API integrations, agentic workflows do it better, faster and for cheape…