Twitter, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft: Crisis of meaning in Silicon Valley

San Francisco Brian has had many good years in Silicon Valley. a Twitter he was one of the first employees. He went from one technology company to another. His salary is in the mid-six figure range. They Asked. But then came the layoff.

“It’s probably never been as difficult to find a new job in Silicon Valley as it is today,” says Brian, who doesn’t want to publicly reveal his full name and the name of his last employer. “Tech companies have had a great time in the last two decades. Change. The party is over.”

Twitter Goal, Sales force, Doordash: In recent weeks, big Silicon Valley tech companies have regularly announced mass layoffs. According to calculations by the investment bank Bernstein, around 53,000 jobs were lost in the US technology sector in November alone.