A friend of mine went through the whole Meta layoff grinder last year. Guy is a Caltech PhD, literally any company would be lucky to have his brain available. It's surreal to me.
The narrative about there not being enough "talent" available in the US is such a hilarious, brazen lie. I'm disgusted at the entire industry. SWEs are negative on Amazon, Meta, etc but IMO nowhere near close to hating them enough.
They'll say whatever they need to to make the number go up, as if they didn't calculate all of this beforehand and then let people go when they saw the economy go down. Ignore the narrative.
Companies just want an excuse to save money without making wall street panic, as well as the usual cost cutting measures they've done for decades. They feel they captured the market so they aren't spending money keeping people away from competitors (and ofc startup funding is much worse too. No one to rise up). These layoffs are not a reflection of anyone's abilities as engineers.
Boeing moved their headquarters from Seattle to Chicago to DC. The American management class doesn't care about anything other the extracting money this quarter. Who needs to manage the widget making operation that's for 'someone else' to take care of. The entire country is going to come to a halt when the 'someone else's that can't afford to live stop propping everything up.
The narrative about there not being enough "talent" available in the US is such a hilarious, brazen lie. I'm disgusted at the entire industry. SWEs are negative on Amazon, Meta, etc but IMO nowhere near close to hating them enough.