Well, it's that time again on Wall St. In my experience, when the banks start letting people go in sizeable numbers, it's a sign that we're near a bottom of some sort of periodic mess.
They are always behind the boom-and-bust curve, and there is no such thing as job security on The Street: everybody needs an exit strategy.
So it's a good time to be a young, junior person on The Street, because they mainly focus on dropping the expensive people. That means the junior folks might get a good 7-10-year run until the next round happens.