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Name one company where you could be confident there's no risk of being laid off. Big companies definitely go through downturns and cut significant chunks of their staff, and you're even less likely to be able to do anything about it there than at a small company.


> confident there's no risk of being laid off

Companies are ruthless, but that's a straw man. Risk is not all or nothing.

The company I work for is profitable. That fact alone lets me sleep at night.


This isn't based on any insider knowledge, but I will be very surprised if my current employer, Roblox, has layoffs in the next couple years.


Pretty sure they laid off at least recruiting and ops staff today


Why do you think that? I didn't hear anything about it.


Sufficiently big companies have a union and more financial buffer to weather downturns.




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