These are areas like: Data analysis (low-level stuff, like excel, MySQL stuff, etc), Product managements, Project management, etc. Location: bay area. One guy

These are areas like: Data analysis (low-level stuff, like excel, MySQL stuff, etc), Product managements, Project management, etc. Location: bay area. One guy, spent 2-3 years looking for a job before he finally found something in slimy real-estate firm that makes him work day and night and weekends. Some of them are going back for another degree because they couldn't find work and their visa is running out. Another one, just finished a 2 yr contract at facebook and is having trouble finding work (they don't reknew contracts there). Another guy I know, spent 18 months looking for a job before he finally got a contract job at Google. And yes, these people didn't go to stanford, harverd or any top tier business school. Many of the executive producers and product managers I knew at gaming companies had to leave the bay area in order to find jobs in that industry, some of them are still unemployed after a couple years. some of them (especially the high level ones) start their own "consulting business" to prevent their linkedIn from looking like they're unemployed. everything looks great from the surface and they don't show up on statistics as unemployed, but things aren't rosy.