Nope, hence the word probably. 100% anecdotal.
Last recession was 2008 and job prospects for a software dev are much worse now compared to then. Go back further and it was dotcom bust a little more than 20 years ago.
Last recession was 2008 and job prospects for a software dev are much worse now compared to then. Go back further and it was dotcom bust a little more than 20 years ago.
There are plenty of jobs out there right now, you just have to be willing to move and take a lower salary, which is much easier for young people than mid-career folks. The same definitely wasn't true in 2008.
There’s so much of reporting and selection bias though.
Everybody has their perspective.
I'm in EU but in the eastern part of it.
https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/recessi...
If you are a good engineer you won't have a problem aside from having to play the numbers game a bit more. There are still new grads being hired but it's definitely not as easy as it was.
If companies on average knew who the 'good engineers' were, they wouldn't be laid off in the first place. (Unless the layoffs are really big).
The recruitment pipe is so convoluted nowadays that connections and recommendations are way more important than they used to be. Skills not so much.
So same people affected both times?