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Re:Ask HN: What is a tech worker, really? by rchaud on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:10AM (#35169517)
Anybody who's employed full-time at a tech company is a tech worker. That's how regular people would see it.

When we hear about banks shedding jobs in a recession, we don't really distinguish between equity research, sales and trading or capital markets employees. Correspondingly, the general public doesn't distinguish between FE, back-end, devops, PMs, HR, admin and all the other types of people that got the sack. It gets rolled up into one big headline number. That's what people remember.

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Re:Ask HN: What is a tech worker, really? by Jensson on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:53AM (#35170221)
> Anybody who's employed full-time at a tech company is a tech worker. That's how regular people would see it.

Pretty sure regular people don't see cleaners as tech workers even if they are full time at a tech company.

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