PMs Are Winning, Engineers Are Plateauing: The Tech Job Market in Late 2026
The job AI was supposed to kill is growing fastest. Bob and Alice unpack Lenny Rachitsky's report on the tech job market in late 2026. In this episode: - PM openings up 75% from their low, while engineering openings stall. - Record lows for design, user research and remote roles, and the pull of the Bay Area. - LLM and Claude top the job posts, forward deployed engineers boom, and why openings aren't hires. Sources: Lenny Rachitsky; Guillermo Gallacher; Joe Schmidt; Jeff Cox Big AI ideas, made clear for builders. luongnv.com/podcast
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Based on State of the tech job market: late 2026 by Lenny Rachitsky