[Maximus9000]

Do you think it will bounce back? or was 2021/2022 the peak of a long and slow decline in tech jobs.

[wil421]

Ask people in 2000 or 2008. Peaks and troughs, peaks and troughs with salaries going up over the long term.

[ghaff]

And it's certainly possible that CS/programming/etc. largely remains a solid engineering/engineering-adjacent career but some of the geo- and large tech-specific compensation is mostly an anomaly.