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Totally agree on all your points and have witnessed the same. The market is fucked, I know a couple new CS grads who have been looking for over a year for anything even remotely tech related and unable to even secure a rejection email let alone OA. These are smart guys too, near 4.0GPA, strong math and CS skills, plus went to a top university with pedigree.

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I have been out for months and months.

Been through multiple interviews, a lot of them totally fake.

My opinion is employers are not actually hiring right now.

They are going through motions, top grading, collecting resumes, gathering info.

They are not sure what to do.

COuld change in the new year, entirely possible.

But rate cuts are coming which is usually quite a recessionary thing to do which means another dump is coming.

I actually suspected the same. Heading into an election year which are always volatile without everything else going on.

It appears as though most of these job postings are fake, to give the illusioj that things are better than they are.

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