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by lux-lux-lux 11 days ago
We’re going to be well into the Diamond Age before people stop attributing layoffs to ‘Covid overhiring.’
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Big tech employee counts are still nearly 2x higher now than 2019.
And big tech market cap is 5x what it was in 2019, yes. I’m not hearing wild overhiring in these numbers, quite the opposite.
In 2019 I bet they were more than 2x what they were in 2012.