Ask HN: Those who've been laid off by bigtech lately, what was the reason?

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Those of you recently laid of by a bigtech company (Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc), what was the reason you think they chose you? Age discrimination, sexual orientation, race, ideology, or ____________.

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Queue subjective answers that don't mean anything.

People got laid off cause companies are cutting costs and the laid off people got identified as non-essential for the company to continue growing / increase revenue.

If you're an all star player with high ROI that is hard to replace, chances are you are not laid off, and even if you are, it could be cause the entire department or project was shut down.

Bigtech and BigCo take special care with their layoffs to make sure that none of the categories you have enumerated are under- or over-represented.

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