Engineering job openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually
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Tech Layoffs Reveal Hidden Growth Story for Industry
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The open-role and layoff data for this year are actually telling a growth story for tech—despite the headlines. Yes, there have been layoffs, and there will likely continue to be as the year goes on. That’s very real and an understandable worry for everyone working today. But
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Big Tech Headcount Remains Stable Despite Recent Layoffs
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Most importantly, the headcount at most big tech companies is flat or slightly up since last year, despite the layoffs we’ve been reading about.
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Remote Work Opportunities Decline Across PM Engineering Design Roles
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6/ Remote work opportunities continue to decline At the 2022 peak in remote-optional listings, we saw about 35% of open PM roles, 26% of eng roles, and 28% of design roles listed as remote-friendly. Today, only 25% of PM roles have a remote option, 19% of eng roles, and 23% of
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Tech Layoffs Continue Despite Overall Job Growth
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7/ Despite ongoing layoffs, the overall number of tech jobs continues to grow So far in 2026, there have been 184 layoffs at tech companies, with 57,606 people impacted. In 2025, there were 783 layoffs at tech companies, with 245,953 people impacted (674 people per day). Though
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NYC Emerges as World’s Second Tech Jobs Hub
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One more interesting data point: NYC has established itself as the #2 tech jobs location in the world, despite not being the headquarters of any of the leading tech companies. Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), London, Tel Aviv, and Singapore continue to be the top international
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Bay Area Dominates AI Jobs Despite Geographic Stagnation
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A whopping third of open AI roles are based in the Bay Area, but, interestingly, this number has stayed relatively flat in the past few years. That tells me that the Bay Area unquestionably continues to be the center of AI (the next city is New York, with 10.2%), but at the same
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PM Job Openings Hit 3-Year High in Tech Industry
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1/ PM openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years There are over 7,300 open PM roles at tech companies globally, and trending up. This is 75% above the low we saw in early 2023, and already up nearly 20% since the start of this year. Today we have the most open
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Tech Hiring Market Strong Despite AI Disruption Concerns
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STATE OF THE PRODUCT JOB MARKET IN EARLY 2026 In spite of the headlines about layoffs and AI taking jobs, we’re actually seeing a lot of promising signs in tech hiring, and some interesting new trends:
1. PM openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over three years
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Tech Job Market Analysis: 9000+ Companies Hiring Data
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First, some context: 1. This analysis is based on data from @trueupio
, one of my favorite collaborators and sources of data. They track job openings at tech companies and top startups around the world (over 9,000 companies) and make it easy to browse open gigs. Their data looks