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Re:Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t a cost-cutting measure. The... by markwaldron on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:12PM (#33643110)
I'm also at a FAANG, and work with a lot of people in their 40's
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Re:Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t a cost-cutting measure. The... by lovich on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:13PM (#33644069)
They obviously exist but from a quick and dirty google search it looks like there was roughly 500k-600k software engineers in 2000 and over 4 million today in the US. Even if zero of the ones from 2000 attritioned out they’d be ~13% of the work force and I highly doubt none of them have retired in a 2 decade span
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