alt Hacker NewsPeople who lived through 2001 and 2008 crashes, did it look like this or was it even worse than what's happening these days with so many layoffs?
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kypro • today at 9:59 AM
2008 really wasn't that bad if you were in tech...
No idea about 2001, but I've heard it was fairly rough. More recently I've seen people say now it's harder to find work today, I think in part because in 2001 it was mostly tech companies laying off talent, while corporates who were less impacted by the dot-com bubble were still building out their engineering teams.
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I don't remember 2001. But 2008 tech job market was way wayyy better than today.