Title: I anticipate looking for a software engineering job starting ~next month (see below for what I am currently doing). If this were a year ago, I&#x27;d feel good; grind some leetcode, get hired at a big tech company for a good salary.<p>Now, of course, such companies seem to be laying off people way more qualified than me, freezing hiring, etc. Am I fucked?<p>I can provide whatever details people want, but I am not sure my personal circumstances are relevant except that I am not an exceptional dev with an enviable resume. The overall question is one many of us have: how bad is the hiring situation going to be in tech over the next year?<p>I also understand it&#x27;s not one most people can effectively answer, but would like to know peoples&#x27; thoughts.<p>I used to be a software engineer. Then I went to law school, and now work in biglaw. I am a year out of law school, and have been working on a legal tech startup with a friend. If we cannot raise in the next couple months, I wish (almost need, really) to bail on the biglaw job and go back to being a dev.
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