there is no war for talent. It is just a market that started to favor seller a bit (smart buyers buy in a buyers market by the way). When i recently "came up on the market" (laid off), 2 companies gave offers under the asking price, one din't make the offer at all as it was "above the range", and another company (that i even didn't hope to get into) offered ~15% more than the asking price was and of course i'm happy to be there now.
