My daughter took Obama’s advice and graduated from coding boot camp in February 2020. Recruiters never came to the school thanks to the pandemic, and she never got a coding job. Then she went to another coding camp put on by United Health and got hired in 2022 as a contract worker. She was doing really well but they laid her off in December because of budget problems. Thank God she’s got extensive experience waitressing. My son-in-law is a UX project manager and told me it’s a bloodbath in IT right now. So depressing.
We spent 40 years in Silicon Valley before moving to Idaho. “Bloodbath in IT” doesn’t begin to describe it there. Layoffs upon layoffs upon layoffs.
I was in energy then high-tech the last 15 years of my career. I watched the industry become overtaken by Indians, Russians and Chinese with a smattering of other countries like Iran. It started small and snowballed every year.