[ReDeiPirati]

For job seekers not at all. I just finished my job search after 5 months and 1 week. After 179 applications, 22 interviews, 2 offers later, I'd say that it's one of the toughest and miserable job market someone can find into. I job search-ed even during the pandemic, and although it was difficult, imho this one is order of magnitude worse... The Senior you are the better chance you'll have, but there is no market for JR, and I feel so bad for them because I have a few people that I care about that are in that condition and aren't able to find almost any openings.

For startup funding, if you are in AI it's fine. Otherwise better presenting with very good metrics and not with the pressing needs of raising money.

It's impossible to say when it will recover, but I'll echo the people in this thread that say "not this year".

[frfl]

95% of positions I can find have a Senior title or higher. Position not requiring 5+ years right now is an exception, not the normal in my experience thus far.

Applying even with 4 years experience and good skill match has been a 100% rejection/ghosting rate across maybe a dozen+ job applications so far.

I agree with the sentiment about junior/entry level...everyone want a senior. Maybe I'm not looking at the insurance/bank/non-tech job boards and companies, maybe they have a few more junior/entry level positions. In startups and high-tech companies, 95% senior and above positions only.

[the_only_law]

I’ve noticed a shitton of specialist jobs with less and less generalist ones in the “cost-centerL side of companies. Most of my professional experience is in .NET stuff and I swear everything I go to search for jobs now they wants a senior/principal/whatever developer who’s an expert with whatever weird obscure COTS software the company uses. I’ve also seen a surprising amount of jobs for people with Unity experience, sometimes in some pretty interesting domains.