&gt; Is this a good time to look or better to keep a &quot;safe&quot; job?<p>No such animal as a &quot;safe job&quot;, even the postal service is eliminating people.<p>As you evaluate a prospective employer-- consider their business model and markets they serve. Are they expanding?  Does the senior leadership have experience and stability?<p>Relative to Yahoo&#x2F;Twitter engineers-- some of those guys are getting fat severance packages and plan to chill on the beach for the next 18 months.  Don&#x27;t worry about them.  Move when the right opportunity lines up for you.