Gorbash GameDev

A technical recruiter with 15 years in enterprise tech just broke down on our call Says she's placed 8,400 engineers across her career. Built relationships with hiring managers at every major platform, fintech, and SaaS outfit on the West Coast This quarter she's gotten 14 job orders. Fourteen. For the entire Bay Area Average applications per senior role: 3,847 candidates Average applications per junior role: 8,200+ before the posting gets pulled Companies aren't even pretending anymore. One hiring manager told her straight: "We're only posting compliance roles. Legal says we have to show we tried hiring humans before we automate" Another client just implemented a policy: no human hires without board approval. The board meets quarterly She watched a Series B startup pull a $180k ML engineer posting after 48 hours. 6,100 applications. They hired nobody Same company announced their new AI agent completed the project in 6 weeks. Cost them $4,000 in compute credits Her biggest client just banned junior engineers entirely. "Too much AI babysitting required" The applications keep flooding in while the jobs disappear faster than she can track them She used to pride herself on 89% placement rates This year it's 0.2% She's watching an entire generation of engineers get systematically replaced by systems that cost less than their weekly coffee budget And the executives ordering the replacements are making more money than they've ever made in their lives

nothing is over, no one is cooked, you're just procrastinating get back to work