Matan Gans
- Matan Gans is a former software development engineer at AWS.
- He's been a victim of Big Tech's sweeping layoffs since graduating college.
- Coinbase rescinded an offer days after his graduation. Months later, Gans was laid off from Amazon.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matan Gans, a former software development engineer at AWS and startup founder. It has been edited for length and clarity.
When I graduated from Brown University in 2022, I was weighing up two exciting job offers — one from Google and one from Coinbase.
Google was kind of a dream job for me, but the job was in-person and meant uprooting my life in Boston and moving to California.