Originally Posted by myrkridia

OP, I hope you find the good advice smuggled among the comments. Even from those stating you missed the boat. While it's true that the unprecedented hiring wave of the last 2.5 years has largely passed, and to a greater extent you would be well on the back side of the curve from the last 10, this has the potential to be a great career and lots of opportunities for progression over your hopefully long career. Don't buy into the doom of comparing how good you will have it to those who won the seniority lottery (which btw is entirely based on luck, not skill) but be sanguine on the expectations of your progression and opportunities over the early years of your career. There's something to be said about the profession having been hyped up in 2022-23 only for new hires now to have their expectations completely subverted.