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Comment by Cwizard | Hacker News Reader

What I don’t understand about all these doom and gloom articles of the end of tech is that net employee counts are still up compared to 2018-19. Would we have seen all these articles if over-hiring hadn’t happened? No we wouldn’t.

News companies get paid by getting attention. Reframe everything you read by someone who’s fulltime job is to make news and you will see a whole lot of these articles a whole lot differently.

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Employee counts still being about 2018 is pretty cold comfort for someone looking for a job right now, especially if it's their first job. And if you think the wave of cuts has come and gone you are more optimistic than I am.

Nevertheless, it's unclear what your complaint actually is. That since the industry recently went through a surge in hiring (ie, a boom), it's not newsworthy that there are widespread layoffs for the first time in more than a decade?

My complaint is that tech is still super strong and these articles are giving people a false sense of anxiety.

Unless perhaps the FANG type jobs, don’t really know about those.

But if you are looking to get a good tech job with a reasonable salary there are tons of open positions. We can’t hire enough people.

If all these companies had a hiring freeze for 3 years, that would be newsworthy, although it might not be reported on due to a lack of a punctuating event.

There didn’t need to be any freezes, just regular hiring. Facebook doubled in size since 2018, doubled!

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