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  So you have no sympathy for people losing their jobs, cool. Also how do you know people had large salaries
context: I honestly agree, but don’t boo me just yet. Big tech companies usually are very departmentalised, so you have entire teams of people working on every little thing. If you’ve ever done group projects in college, you’d probably know that in low-stakes team settings you usually have 3/10 people doing 90% of the work. A lot of people are also GROSSLY overpayed. I live in the Bay Area and know the salary disparities between small and large businesses. If you are a nobody at Google you’re making $100k+ these days almost regardless of your actual use to the company. MANY people are also network hires, who just happen to have friends/family at the company. Sure, you may not be rich with that money here, but you’re still better off than a person doing the same job at a smaller company AND you’ll have those big name companies on your resume, which is almost guaranteed to get you hired quickly. If you can demonstrate that you’re a valuable employee - most of the time you’ll keep your job. If you’re not, well, welcome to reality.