Job search 2025 post-mortem and advice

The comp bio job market is scarier than usual: 2023 was a biotech bankruptcy bloodbath, 2024 was a little better, and as far as layoffs, 2025 has been worse. Academic and government sectors are also reeling from government cuts, and in the two places I have recently lived (Massachusetts and Maryland), cuts have specifically targeted large biomedical research employers (Harvard and NIH). The tech…