Why are senior engineer postings booming if tech hiring is slow?
While junior hiring collapsed, demand for experienced engineers surged. Indeed's Hiring Lab found that the share of tech postings requiring five or more years of experience rose from 37% in 2022 to 42% in 2025, while senior-level postings grew nearly 15% year-on-year through early 2026.
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The Senior Janitor and the Junior Death Spiral: How Big Tech Inverted the Software PyramidBig Tech cut new-grad hiring by 50% from pre-pandemic levels while senior demand surged. The apprenticeship pipeline is broken.
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