[sdevonoes]

I think we are exaggerating. I started a new position 5 months ago (with a significant raise of around 20% my previous salary). Within these 5 months the company fired a significant portion of their employees (some techies, but mainly non-techies like HR); it made it to HN (not the front-page I think). Hiring freeze for around 3 months... but since about a month ago they started to hire again. Now on Linkedin you can see the company is posting around 200 job offers... although, sure before the lay-off they had like around 1000 job offers (crazy).

My point is: if you go to Linkedin right now and filter by location=Europe, remote=yes, you get like 160K job offers (tech ones). Sure, you can filter down that number by removing managerial positions and other roles you are not interested in, but the thing is companies are still hiring (not all of them, but the majority).

Maybe it's just Europe? I have no idea about US.

[atraac]

Most of those EU remote jobs will not even glance at your resume twice if you don't have x years of experience in their stack. I know this because I just ended a two month long interview loop for remote positions within EU as a senior developer who only has C# experience(on paper). There were literally two companies that would give me time even though I didn't have experience in JS and Go respectively, one of them also offered very much under market average salary. European job market is retarded like that, still living in ages where companies think you can't learn any other web framework in a week even if you worked with another one for years. I actually hated interviewing these last two months, granted I didn't even try to approach faang level companies, still, most processes are terrible, long and even disrespectful. Also for the LinkedIn "remote+EU" search you mentioned, a lot of companies on LinkedIn will list remote but in fact will not hire outside country they're in. You will only find out if recruiter graciously tells you that, most will just ignore you. I found it baffling considering that you can simply invoice them within EU but suddenly it's a problem.