[jacurtis]

To OP: What is your experience (YOE) and specialty (web, AI, data science, ops/sre, backend, etc)? I think that makes a huge difference.

From my observation, there is plenty of demand in AI/ML and Data Science. But fields like web-dev and QA are down significantly. We are hiring a few Data Science engineers right now at work and they are going for top dollar right now and we can't find enough to interview. We have 1 ML position available and can't get any serious applicants.

We are also hiring QA engineers which are a dime a dozen and its really competitive, we have our pick and salaries are a tad lower than they were last year (which means they are way down if you account for inflation). We haven't hired back any frontend or backend devs since layoffs last year. Our DevOps/SRE are hiring and getting about average feedback on the market, similar to last year.

My personal experience (i am an SRE manager) and I have been getting several recruiting offers that I have turned down but might start to flirt with soon. The number of overall incoming demand for me has been down from last year, but there is still a steady supply of it. I haven't taken interviews though so I can't speak to the interview process.

[jelan]

I have about 4 years of experience in web with focus on frontend.

Thanks for your input on this, I know you said you are an SRE manager but assuming you were once an SRE yourself, did you enjoy that line of work?