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Companies are leveling down the titles and pay, in an age of AI.

Have you compared senior vs junior openings? My understanding is the market is kinda lopsided because companies don’t want to train juniors. So junior roles are super rare and senior roles more in demand. I have no numbers though this is all anecdotal

There's a Senior Android Engineer position @proton.me that wasn't filled in a year. The bar (and pay) definitely aren't low, but a year is a long time! There are many openings around the world. If someone finds something interesting at proton.me/careers, just let me know ;)

Also worthy of note that my junior colleagues saying there aren’t any jobs available in the first places. Like, count on one hand, in terms of opportunities over the past few weeks.

Friends at places like Spotify, Etsy, or any NYC company say they still get several thousand resumes for any role they open The ratio between devs needing a role and open roles is still rough

Yep. Layoffs are up so more competition, plus folks who DO have jobs are afraid to leave and are just hunkering down where they are.

Do you control for "ghost jobs"? Not sure if that's even possible, but could be part of the explanation. Another part is that it's all senior roles. Even with the massive title inflation at this point, still might be that most devs finding it hard are junior-mid?

The full job advert: upchieve.welcomekit.co/jobs/softwar... Sharing this one specifically, because this company reached out looking for ways to advertise (I don't do this and told them this; this is not paid) Just surprising because this is a pretty good salary range for full-remote!