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Boom? That was the "Great Recession". Not exactly the label you'd expect from a boom period. In 2010 I tried to apply to the place where I'd interned the year
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
Boom? That was the "Great Recession". Not exactly the label you'd expect from a boom period.
In 2010 I tried to apply to the place where I'd interned the year before and was told "we'd love to hire you, but we can't, because Amazon declared a hiring freeze".
- runako 1y agoI'm sorry to hear that. The data from the decade[1] shows that tech hiring ~doubled over that period of time. The slope was not as steep as the dotcom boom, but the downturn in tech ended in 2009. 1 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES6054150001 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES6054150001