Comment by simplyluke

This doesn't break it down by experience, and I can't find specific data on that, but the recent spike in demand for engineers + subsequent drop in unemployment this year is well documented [1].

The demand for senior+ engineers has remained steadier through this downturn from my anecdotal observations, with new grads being by far the most negatively affected, but even that seems to both be shifting from talking to people a handful of years younger than me + CS enrollment has already precipitously declined [2] as the narrative that programming is dead because of AI has spread rapidly.

All that leads me to think it's going to be a junk-show over the next decade for people trying to hire as the pipeline was destroyed.

1: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo... 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/13/compute...