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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now
Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg labeled 2023 the “ year of efficiency,” and since then has cut the company’s workforce by 22% while thinning out its middle management and asking some employees to reapply for jobs or be fired. One former Google employee, Canadian software developer Tim Bray, said in his personal blog last month that when he joined in 2010, Google was “was the coolest place in the world to work.” But he added that the entry of business-world “psychopaths” and the effects of late-stage capitalism have done away with the allure of Big Tech, and that now it is more associated with “hostile congressional hearings, mass layoffs, and messy antitrust litigation.” That includes 39-year-old Adrian C. Jackson, who said in a recent tweet that he had to move back in with his parents after he lost his tech job.
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