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Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

blog.pragmaticengineer.com Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come next.

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Indeed is useless for both recruiters and recruits. The garbage there is greater than 99.99%. Most likely is is finally waning as a platform.
- What does people use instead?
  
  Glassdoor or directly from company's website

(chuckles)
I'm in danger
- I mean, if you have the ability to wait out the bubble, you should do so. This genAI ouroboros is going to implode sooner or later. Probably sooner because of all the cascade effects of the protectionist idiocy our government is getting into.

People still use Indeed? I thought it had followed monster.com into the wayback machine.
- Is everyone using LinkedIn instead now?

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