[hn_throwaway_99]

It's not as bad as last year, but if you look at the layoff.fyi graph that goes back further (https://layoffs.fyi/#tabs_desc_471_2 ), I remember feeling that around September of last year that the huge amount of layoffs from late 22/early 23 had stabilized: a lot of my dev colleagues on LinkedIn that were previously laid off had found new jobs (but non-IC-eng roles definitely didn't fare as well), and there were even reports of companies that had had big layoffs rehiring.

So I'd say I was surprised by the big layoff numbers from the likes of big names like Google, Discord, Twitch, Instagram, etc. this January. To me it had seemed like we had already hit bottom WRT layoffs but apparently not.