Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad? 9 points by idontwantthis 39 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments I’m not trying to brag, I am just genuinely confused. I got laid off recently and I had a new job within a week because I constantly get contacted by recruiters both through LinkedIn and directly by email. I’ve never sent an application to anyone and I’ve had dozens of interviews in the past year while I was looking for a new job before getting laid off. I would have had a new one earlier except I was aiming for fully remote and a big raise, and I failed their correspondingly difficult evaluations. Never got ghosted, never had to deal with AI, never had to fill out an application. I took a local, in office offer that I would have ignored if I were still employed. Currently I’m waiting for a final decision from another fully remote company and I’m in midstage with 2 more. I’m not a super genius engineer, and I don’t have any fancy companies on my resume. How unusual is this experience?…