The tech industry was teetering, and she wondered whether the future she had banked on would survive.
On Handshake, a leading jobs board for college students, entry-level software positions in the tech industry slumped 14% last year.
"I'm finding that students are pivoting to organizations that have IT functions but are not in the tech industry," says Laura Garcia, director of career education at Georgia Tech.
Given the seismic downturn in tech, some students are rethinking their dreams of working for the Amazons and Googles and Metas of the world.
Suddenly, in the eyes of Gen Z, tech seems to be just as ruthless and unreliable of an employer as banking did to millennials who came of age in the Great Recession.