[rndaom]

Market is in the gutter.

Many job ads are fake and only there to confuse shareholders about the company health.

Interviewers are looking for the tiniest bit of excuse to fail you along the process while quite often they are looking for lesser engineers than themselves as this buys them job security.

Offers, when they come, are much worse (terms + money) than what they were 2 years ago.

Most of the companies don't want to invest even a day on you so you have to have the exact package they're looking for.

It is fully a (job) sellers market. OTOH if you are a company and you find it hard to find people in this market then you're doing something really wrong.

EU-Greece here.

Good luck.

[yoav]

This is such an important point. I know several startups that are running on fumes, and have about pages with 15 employees who were actually laid off over a year ago and job postings they have no intent to even reply to candidates.

Some of these got a small bump by slapping ai on their marketing site or product but so many companies just playing a shell game with vcs hoping to survive to the next zirp era