We run Dataford, an interview prep platform. People come to us to study for specific companies and specific roles before they ever sit in the interview. That gives us a clear view of where the market is heading.
We do not see who got hired. We see who is getting ready. And what people get ready for tends to move before the hiring data does.
Between January and June 2026, more than 200,000 candidates ran over 231k sessions on Dataford. We looked at which companies they studied for, which roles they targeted, and at what level. Here is what we got for you.
By the way, this is candidate behavior on one platform, not a hiring census, so please treat it as an early read, not the universal truth.
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