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>But you wouldn't believe how many bad people were in big tech because of the COVID over hiring.

There’s no correlation. They hired expecting a certain type of growth. They fired because of AI. The narrative that they were getting rid of bad workers was their excuse, not the reason. Many great engineers got let go. Many project managers that had been with the company through ups and downs. One guy was let go after being poached from a FAANG after his 3rd day. So don’t say anyone deserved it.



Post-covid layoffs happened before ChatGPT, so it's certainly not because of AI.

End of 0 interest rates is the more likely reason.




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