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by rufus_foreman 2008 days ago
I don't know about this crisis, but in the last crisis, 2008 or whatever, they fired everyone.

Where I worked, 200 people working on two products at a start up became 100 people working on 1 product at a startup all in the course of a single morning, and the people working on the product that got the axe were just as smart as the people working on the product that didn't.

Some of them didn't work for years - all smart capable developers, but no one was hiring. It's sort of surprising that didn't happen this year, but the next crisis is always right around the corner.

It's all fun and games until it happens to you.