For someone just getting started in stocks, is it a good time to invest?

Hmm, I'm not sure you could say the tech market is at a low. I guess it depends on what tech companies you are looking at. But, if you look at the stock prices of the large cap companies like Nvidia, Apple, Netflix, Amazon and zoom out 5 years, you'll see that these companies are either at record highs or near record highs. Although, maybe it's different for small/mid cap tech companies? I haven't checked lately.

For a newbie, I'd recommend either investing in the S&P500 or a total market fund. The average annual return is around 10% a year.

If you are going to park your investments into the market for a long period of time, I wouldn't worry about the market being at a high right now because the market is going to continue to reach new highs.

Have to share one of the most famous investing quotes of all time:

It's not about timing the market, but about time in the market

Almost every time I tried to time the market, I ended up losing money 😅 I recommend just putting all your money in VTI or ITOT.