Is the lateral market for IB Associates completely dead?

I was laid off Q4 last year from a BB as a second year associate. I decided to take December off and started looking / reaching out using headhunters at the end of January. The market seems pretty dead. Are people experiencing the same thing: hiring freezes and only very selective opportunities at smaller / niche firms? If you know of any banking opportunities can you post firm / group / level?

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Literally nothing out there unless it’s a specific team that is probably lean and is backfilling backfilling. and you happen to know someone in the group

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