https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245316
This is all the data I've got on the state of industry; genuinely interested to hear tidbits from anybody that things aren't this ugly nowadays.
I'm not in the demographic of people dealing with problematic pasts (and very thankfully so; I don't envy those who are, at all) but I think that reasonable analysis of situations like what is described in those links is not at all too much to ask (?!), and I wouldn't want to touch an employer who deals with such situations in the way that is described in those links.
(Also, if you go through the user profiles of the usernames who wrote those two comments - based on the fact that the first comment links to the second I presume they're the same person - I must note that I observe a general pattern of cynicism which I think has an obvious cause and is sad because of its trivial avoidability.)