Most people laid off in all those companies are not in engineering. It seems they are mostly cutting support, HR, administrative, etc.
If anything I've noticed that salary ranges are starting to catch up to inflation and salary ranges becoming more common in initial communication, at least when people reach out to me.
This is mirroring what I’m seeing. I’m actually noticing a lot of senior dev jobs with base salaries extending to 200k+. This is new to me as before Covid this base salaries were very hard to come by even for higher level staff and principal roles, even in Faang
If anything I've noticed that salary ranges are starting to catch up to inflation and salary ranges becoming more common in initial communication, at least when people reach out to me.