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by nend 1181 days ago
At the moment the number of open jobs is not huge. The majority of companies that haven't had lay offs have simply closed their open positions. Combined with a ton of layed off developers, most job postings get hundred of applicants within a few hours.
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At the moment the number of open jobs is not huge.

As someone else mentioned here, Walmart apparently has over 1000 software related openings right now. I know a few companies outside the traditional 'Silicon Valley' company ecosystem trying to hire developers and I can promise you they're not getting 100s of applications within a few hours. The jobs are definitely out there, they're just not where most people are looking and perhaps not in a field, company or geographic location that are most people's first choice.

I agree. So the situation for niche tech / specialization will be even worse, that was my point.