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Offers stopped coming for a lot of people in 2022.

yup. inflationed dried up VC funding

I'm in my 40s and I (and the entire team I worked on) was laid off in 2022. After taking a week or so to relax, I was able to find a new position within about 4 weeks, which I'm still at now, and has turned out to be one of the better roles I've had in my career.

I realize this is just another anecdote, but don't be discouraged by the other posters here -- companies value people with lots of experience.

Agree w the other poster, 22 is when the music stopped for most of the industry.

More optimism may be creeping back in but there's still a lot more hesitancy, caution, and conservatism in my experience than there was for much of the last decade+ (except probably in AI which is pretty hot overall). It's also not clear how hiring is distributed by seniority. On the one hand, I hear that things are tougher for junior people without networks. On the other hand, I hear that filling slots opened up by attrition are tending to go to more junior/cheaper people.

i think elon and trump are gone farm whatever jobs are left out to india.