This comment can only be made by someone who isn't paying any attention at all. The layoffs affected recruiters, marketing, sales, and a ton of areas that were

This comment can only be made by someone who isn't paying any attention at all. The layoffs affected recruiters, marketing, sales, and a ton of areas that were not engineers. Lower level engineers were also targeted more than the higher level engineers, and even more importantly the hiring freezes and reductions blocked a ton of new grads from getting jobs. As a 400k/year engineer I was fine. My colleagues unfortunately were not.