> A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover. The ones that were a party to fraud or extreme folly, sure, but competent people generally had the s

> A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover. The ones that were a party to fraud or extreme folly, sure, but competent people generally had the same difficulty finding a new position as anyone else after their company goes under. I knew people at Enron and Lehman that had new jobs within days and weeks of the blowup. It isn't a big deal and no reasonable person is going to hold normal employees responsible for the blowups of executives or tides of the market. Especially when useful developers are in extreme demand. > but quite a few people will think this very hard in their head. Not having to work with people who think this about potential colleagues is a blessing in itself.