The tech industry, once thriving during the pandemic, now faces significant layoffs, impacting workers in Silicon Valley the hardest. Affected employees, including experienced engineers like Daelynn Moyer, face a grim job market marked by rejection. With prospects dwindling in an expensive housing market, many tech workers contemplate leaving the industry altogether. The emotional fallout from these layoffs includes feelings of loss of identity and burnout as former employees share struggles on social media, revealing a collective sense of desperation and disillusionment with the industry.
It would be a meager existence, but it would be fulfilling, I would no longer feel like a no longer useful commodity.
I am burned out on the lengthy interview process and then the rejections. It has done some damage to me physiologically.
I did not know who I was after I got laid off. I looked at myself in the mirror and I could not introduce myself to me.
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