Not that I'd say use them as the only source but they've been a source for other layoffs for a long time and he's usually correct if not always. He's the author

Not that I'd say use them as the only source but they've been a source for other layoffs for a long time and he's usually correct if not always. He's the author of a few Engineering books (The Pragmatic Engineer, etc.) so he gets a lot of inside information from current and past SWEs.