[teelelbrit]

I'd argue that employment data is so manipulated it's basically useless at this point.

I'd say 4/6 people I know working in tech (devs, pm's etc) are unemployed at the moment. Those looking for work are getting maybe one interview per 30 applications. These are people with FAANG credentials and over 8yrs of experience.

And that's in tech, can't imagine how things are going in other industries.

[JohnFen]

But it entirely depends on where you're looking for work. If you're looking for a FAANG-style company, then yes, times are hard.

But that's a small segment of the industry. In most of the rest of the industry, jobs are as plentiful as ever -- but lots of programmers, mostly the younger ones, don't even consider anything that doesn't look like FAANG.