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edit: Re-read the thread somehow missed that it was specific to engineering. Comment makes sense - engineering typically last to go for obvious reasons. I'll

edit: Re-read the thread somehow missed that it was specific to engineering. Comment makes sense - engineering typically last to go for obvious reasons. I'll counter though that I don't think its about pricey severances but more related to keep core products operating and being built for the future. Lutke comes from software engineering.

soneca 4y ago
It made sense to me. I was and their reply was talking about engineering jobs. I said that all these layoffs are not firing many, if any, software engineers. They replied that, while that’s true, tech companies are not firing software engineers, they are on a hiring freeze and canceled offers that were out. So not firing, but not hiring any either.
- TulliusCicero 4y ago
  A hiring freeze for any one company generally means slowly bleeding in that area: people are still leaving, you're just not getting anyone new to replace them. But if basically every company is doing a hiring freeze, and employees are unable or unwilling to quit because of bad economic conditions, maybe less so.