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Fear and Layoffs: How to Cope with Tech’s Uncertain Times

Whether your company went through sudden truncating layoffs like Twitter, Meta, Salesforce and Stripe, faces a looming ax, or is on a hiring freeze like Apple and Amazon, the tech industry feels a whole lot different than it did a couple months ago. Economic and geopolitical uncertainty are also likely to cool down investments in startups and https://thenewstack.io/is-a-recession-coming-heres-how-to-cut-it-costs-wisely/ as seen by https://www.trueup.io/layoffs across the tech industry starting in May.

For early career workers, the security of a well-paying tech job could become harder to find.

She compared this experience to a pendulum: “Sitting in a natural position, you don’t have any room to move forward.

https://thenewstack.io/companies-are-hiring-open-source-devs-but-skills-are-rare/ is a good use of that time to upskill and to have proof of coding activity on GitHub, she said.