100,000 programmers laid-off in the past year

Over 100,000 programmers have been laid off in last 12 months.

Google, Meta, HP, Salesforce, Klarna and other big companies have been on a big firing spree.

It’s actually more like 150,000, when you factor in huge layoffs at Unity, PlayStation Europe, Sony, Ubisoft, Rocksteady and about 50 smaller game studios shutting their doors entirely.

In VFX, Technicolor just announced major layoffs and restructuring.

This also doesn’t include the upcoming NetEase blood bath pruning of all its non-PRC game studios.

I should’ve lifted weights like Charles Atlas and bee like my blue-collar high school classmates.