I&#x27;m not seeing a great hiring market right now for engineers in the Bay Area, at least as a high demand JS engineer. I took a look at testing the waters within the past month, I found the offers&#x2F;opportunities a little wanting, and I am now debating whether to stick around at my job for a while even with some of its faults. The market looked a lot better a half year ago.<p>Getting hired is not a problem - getting a really nice job though is much more difficult, especially due to all of the companies that like to talk a nice game but are disguising weak aspects of the company such as leadership&#x2F;management, quality engineering, work-life balance, etc.<p>An aside, that popup iframe with video on the top as you scrolled down is one of the most annoying dark UX patterns I&#x27;ve encountered in a news site. It is one of a handful times where I used Chrome&#x27;s element inspector to set display: none.