It always feels that way when you're about to jump. Don't worry, from my perspective this is still the golden age.

It is. I've been approached by 3 companies (one of them is FAANG) last week and I don't live in Cali. Remote work is here to stay.

If you’re not local to the company and they are new to hiring in your area that’s not remote work here to stay, that’s fulfilling a need at a point in time.

Why would the base their HQ in a tax heavy state like California, specifically the Bay Area and build multibillion dollar office buildings? Access to UC Berkeley and Stanford has historically been the answer.

In a few years kids who grew up on zoom looking to go to the office and have the communal experience that escaped them. Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and the bank always owns the land on either side of said fence.

All the companies meeting their earnings are back (Msft, Tesla, Apple… curious to see what FB does, but I think Elon is going to want asses in seats so to speak). I can see the articles being written now.

You career will be decades long, and you're in an industry that pays pretty well. Short term ups and downs are much less important than the general trajectory. Some people take years off to have kids, other (me) took 5+ years just being an idiot.

All that to say, you'll be fine.

Think it from another angle..

The ones jump when the salary is the highest are now in more peculiar position than the others, if the company decided to trim itself down.

Where did you see there was a meta freeze? I’m in the interview process right now and nothing was mentioned to me (Meta)

E4 and lower is indeed in a hiring pause. The just kind of messed up the pacing an hired too many too quickly.

E5+ and managers are unaffected

From what I’ve heard, only E3 and E4 interviews have been affected by the freeze (so far).

Yup; a VC I brunched with a couple weeks ago said cloud is dead and he’s looking for alternatives

Yeah, AWS, Azure, and GCP are all shutting down tomorrow. They just decided the cloud isn't that cool any more.

Right because VCs are shoveling money at AWS directly

Their take was startups leveraging the cloud are dead to VCs except in certain niche situations

The proles are always behind the trends

Apple jumped into content creation after Alice neutered software patents. Copyright is Disney level bread and butter now

There are few real markets for CRUD app startups which are just the same old shit with a marketing angle painted on top

Docker pull that shit and run it local.

Dead I tell ya! Finally ran out of credits!

I mean Azure/AWS/GCP doesn't need VC money though lol

Poof!

How are Meta/Twitter/RH related to cloud?

That doesn't matter, what matters is that he brunched with a VC ;)

to VC everything is cloud

"hedge cloud by investing in solar!"

Slightly presumptuous to just assume you can walk in and get an offer.

Meta is still sending me recruiter e-mails; which part is frozen?

0-4 years of experience. E3 / E4 for the rest of the year.

Ah got it; hopefully I fall out of that range at this point. Thanks!