“Honestly, sometimes lately, I’ve thought my entire career is a ZIRP,” a tech worker recently reflected.
More tech workers get laid offOver the last 18 months, tech workers say it's felt difficult to stay employed as round after round of layoffs have swept Big Tech and the broader industry.
The tech job market got tougherTo add insult to injury, keeping a job in tech isn’t the only thing that’s more difficult.
Aline Lerner, a former tech engineer and founder of interviewing.io, a site for tech recruiting and mock interviewing for tech job seekers, said it's now much more difficult to land a tech job, particularly at a high-profile or Big Tech company.
“Anecdotally, I’d say it’s the hardest it’s been to get a tech job since probably the dot-com bust," Lerner said.
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