The Golden Days of Tech are over | by The Wandering Engineer | Medium

With tech layoffs entering a third year, and having friends and former colleagues being laid off left and right in my engineering circles, things seem pretty bleak. I talked about surviving layoffs in the technology industry before in my blog, but let’s take it a bit further. I may sound like I am dooming, but it’s pretty obvious that the golden days of tech are over. The days of coming out of a coding boot camp or college with zero work experience and making six figures at a big-name company are no more. And chances are, if you’ve seen those day-of-the-life videos of tech influencers flaunting their cool perks and showing how little they actually work at their jobs, that won’t be happening to you. It runs much deeper than the recent wave of layoffs stemming from the pandemic overhiring and overexpansion. As history has shown, I believe it is a reset for the whole industry. It is not merely the burst of a bubble like it did in 2000, but the start of a new normal. From the 2000s up unti

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