[LRUG] Ghosttown

[Frederick Cheung]

4 companies said they were hiring at the meet-up on Monday (carwow, the
British business bank, scan.com, an ivf related company) which is quite a
few more than recently so I don’t think it’s quite the end.

Tough for juniors for sure!

Fred.

On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 at 13:01, Michael Pavling via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
wrote:

> Well... The jobs market looks pretty bleak, doesn't it?
>
> There seems to be no entry-level roles now, and the mid/senior roles are
> few and far between, with hundreds of applicants scrabbling to stand out
> with their AI tuned CVs :-(
>
> What's gonna be the case in a couple of years? (Or even at the end of this
> year)
> Is that it for Ruby jobs now? Is it the end for almost all tech stacks? 😬
>
> Do we all just need to re-align to be maintainers of the output?
>
> *sigh* What's everyone's hope for a best outcome?
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