Just a reminder that the WSJ and Washington Post has been pushing a lot of articles over layoffs in tech, overinflated SWE salaries and generally pushing the na

Just a reminder that the WSJ and Washington Post has been pushing a lot of articles over layoffs in tech, overinflated SWE salaries and generally pushing the narrative that tech workers are "overpaid" and that it's time for this to end. With the Washington Post, of course, being owned by Bezos, and the timing of these articles coinciding with the RTO policy at Amazon I can't help to think that this isn't a coincidence. Reminder that most "tech workers" laid offs were in non-technical positions as well (ie not engineers). HR, recruiting, DEI... https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other-departments https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layoffs-are-hitting-diversity-and-inclusion-jobs-hard https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo... https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-tech-layoff-headlines-most-companies-arent-firing-it-workers.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te... https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-07-do-recent-layoffs-mean-the-tech-talent-crunch-is-over https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0... https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics-and-society-team-fired/ https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics... EDIT: Wrongfully attributed ownership to the WSJ to Bezos. Thank you smallmind for pointing it out.