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It's probably worth considering that you are in a bubble. There's a whole world of jobs outside of tech. The part I find strange (not really but I'm very cynical) is that tech companies are still posting record revenues while shedding all these employees.

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I was nodding along and I've been out of "tech" for years at this point. All my professional connections are at like banks, shipping companies, big retailers. They're going through very similar things as far as I can tell. "Every company is a tech company" probably closest to true in this case. If you need to hire a programmer there are a couple hundred thousand looking for work.

That can be true for sure.

Something is weird.

Tech is smaller than you think. I found article where 400k workers were laid off in 2023. But that is worldwide, say 200k in US, or 16k per month. The US has been adding workers at rate of 200k per month. We also don't know how many have been hired again.

Tech job market is a mess right now, but you can't use it to say anything about the wider market.

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