[red-iron-pine]

Sigh. Lots, arguably most, of those laid off were tech-adjacent, not necessarily the core-engineering types that would have been doing GSoC.

Plus GSoC is for the youngbloods, the noobs, and getting their feet wet with real code and big orgs. It's a career starter, not a career bastion.

[xoogthrowaway]

Very many of the 12,000 employees whose jobs were cut were "core-engineering types". I was one of them.