> In 2009, tons of college kids were still getting in Amazon Clearly, "tons" of kids getting into 1 company (out of several thousand just public ones), is a gr

> In 2009, tons of college kids were still getting in Amazon Clearly, "tons" of kids getting into 1 company (out of several thousand just public ones), is a great indicator. Just for reference, I actually lived through the 11% unemployment out of college. The market for fresh grads was absolutely brutal. A good 20-30% of my cohort never recovered and never broke into higher-paying white collar jobs and still works in jobs that don't require a college degree. It was so bad, that the fresh grads of those years coined the term "lost generation". Millions of fresh grads just couldn't break into adulting for several years.