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Old Posted Feb 17, 2023, 1:54 AM
Shawn Shawn is offline
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Originally Posted by JManc View Post
I wouldn't want to be an unemployed tech worker in the Bay Area right about now. Everyone is laying off or have hiring freezes and those with exceptional skills and experience are going to get noticed out of the thousands in the job market. My coworkers are a little nervous. If I got laid off, I would return to Houston and take my FAANG experience with me and probably find something reasonably quick.
This is a good point, and I'm only talking from an APAC perspective. I imagine there are people losing sleep over South Bay mortgages who don't want to leave the area but as you say are suddenly unremarkable among a huge unemployed labor pool.
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