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> - the 2020 pandemic recession Did this affect the IT sector? Seriously asking because I didn't notice it.

• rzazueta 4y ago
  If you were looking for a job at the time, it absolutely did. It recovered in 2021, but I was very far along - at the stage where they were ready to make an offer - with at least two major companies and a handful of small ones, and had the rug pulled out at the end citing the pandemic and them closing ranks.
• ssully 4y ago
  Yeah it did, but I don't think it was that big. I had a final interview call the day my job at the time started WFH (March 2020). I remember we were kind of joking about how wild everything was, but how they seemed well situated for it (they were a mostly distributed team). Call ended with them saying that they were looking to move forward and would send over paper work, but they ended up ghosting me. My job at the time also had a small wave of layoffs, but by the end of the year started hiring again. Had a friend have a pretty similar experience with a different company at the time, but ended up landing a job there by the end of the summer of that year.
• brandall10 4y ago
  For me it did in a big way. I was in process with about 15 companies w/ one incoming offer (doing a ref check) and another potential one. In the course of one week mid-March, everything fell off except 3, and all those ops slow-walked to the extreme. 6 weeks later when the lockdowns ended a ton of activity came in, and within a few weeks I ended my job search with 4 offers after going through 7 sets of final rounds.