Is anyone aware of how hard covid hit the software engineering community via early deaths/retirements? This downturn is going to be weird all over the economy because unlike normal recessions its coming right after a structural change to the labor market which is why were still seeing historically low unemployment rates despite these rate hikes and layoffs. Every company who was profitable to begin with has been hungry to snap up employees still.

Not saying this is necessarily true with software since were a niche of the economy and may have a different outlook, but the affect of covid on our number would help figure that out