LayOFFs!
Recession time ;-;
LayOFFs!!
Date: Jan 21, 2023.
A pleasant and perfect morning, feeling quite energetic and lovely when I just resolved an issue and went to take a break at 11:10 as I had my next class for Autonomous systems at 11:30.
As usual, I took my phone started scrolling through various social medias, and LinkedIn is a prominent part of my scrolling time. As I opened up LinkedIn, I saw first post about Google Layoffs, it was normal, things happen, people get laid off, this is period of recession. I scrolled down, another post supported by one of my connection, I saw person's profile he graduated with Masters in CS from one of the Ivleagues, had a quite decent experience. I was shocked, then I scrolled down again, a laid off post. I repeated same procedure and bam! that person was also from one of the great universities. There were around 10-12 consecutive posts of google layoffs. I observed that many of them were from top universities and those people had a decent experience of about 5-10 years range even after that they were laid off. It is quite surprising to see this being a BTech CSE undergrad from IIT.
Google laid off 12,000 employess, Microsoft 10,000 employees and Amazon 18,000+ employees. Not only these three companies other mega tech giants are also cutting down their employees. As per what I think and upon interaction with my friends, alums, colleagues one shall utilize the time of recession to develop new skills and be prepared for boom in fields again.