The tech meltdown comes for Gen Z

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The class of 2023 can't find work in Silicon Valley — and that could cost Big Tech in the long run.

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A Googler laid off while on vacation found out when her colleague texted her, and said it made her feel like she was 'just a number'

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Google laid off 12,000 workers in January.

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Twilio plans to lay off 17% of staff, internal email shows

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Laid-off Google workers say the impersonal way the company let them go shows it's 'just as cutthroat corporate as anybody else'

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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc. speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022
Google told affected US staff in an early-morning email on January 20 that "we no longer have a job for you."

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Companies are using layoffs to cut new-hire salaries and win back the power they held before the pandemic, some recruiters say

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Companies are lowering salaries for new hires, and recent layoffs are tamping down the power of remaining employees, recruiters say.

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A former Twitter engineer says it took 20 interviews to find a new job after getting laid off by Elon Musk

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Elon Musk has laid off thousands of staff since buying Twitter late last year.

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I was laid off from Meta and now I post on TikTok about being unemployed to help motivate others

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Alejandra Hernandez started posting to TikTok shortly after learning she'd been swept up in Meta's layoffs. She says it's helped her mental health, her job hunt, and her side hustle.

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Meta is asking some managers not to be managers — or quit, report says

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CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said that the company was removing some layers of middle management to become more nimble.

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Laid off from a startup and on an H-1B visa? Here are 3 main things immigrant workers should know, according to experts.

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Quiet layoffs are underway.
Many laid-off immigrant tech workers on H-1B visas now have a 60-day window to find a new job.

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Zoom's CEO will take a $10,000 salary this year, a 98% pay cut, after laying off 1,300 workers because of 'mistakes' he made growing the company

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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan is slashing his pay by $490,000.

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