Seems like a lot of unicorn hunting out there, right now.

At least for senior data leadership roles, I’ve hit a lot of JDs that were clearly written for one person (either internally, or the random Meta/Google/whatever layoff that this company is sure will take a 75% salary cut for). Networking has been really invaluable. ATS systems seem slightly more inscrutable than when I was looking two years ago (wonder if there’s some weird effect from LLM-enabled resume spam).

I dunno, it’s not horrible, but it’s definitely worse right now than I remember it in the last five or six years.