Laid off in 2009 right at the time every company in the world was shutting it's doors. Had multiple interviews and a much better job offer in a week using simi

Laid off in 2009 right at the time every company in the world was shutting it's doors. Had multiple interviews and a much better job offer in a week using similar tech (web stack rails / .net etc). I had to relocate though. Since then risen to be CTO of company I was hired by. Best thing that ever happened to me. The company laid off many developers and every single one I kept in touch with landed a job within a month or less. During the layoff they kept many weak performers and what I call soft skill people over us developers. Funny thing is they now can't find devs to work for them to this day. I hear they are basically taking anyone willing to try at this point.