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I've worked for multiple failed startups and in game dev (which seems to like to lay a bunch of people off shortly after a game is released). I've been laid off
by cableshaft 3y ago
I've worked for multiple failed startups and in game dev (which seems to like to lay a bunch of people off shortly after a game is released). I've been laid off from more companies than I've not, at this point.
I just kind of assume it's going to happen at some point. I even found out I narrowly avoided being laid off at my previous company at a large corporation. I was on the list for their first layoff (which was like 6 months after I joined, I was still the 3rd most recent engineering hire) but someone else in the department quit which allowed my manager to not have to include me. I then survived two other layoff rounds at that company.
And I survived a layoff round at my current company as well, although it was a fairly small layoff to begin with and I'm making them money directly as a consultant staffed on a project so they didn't have much reason to lay me off anyway.