Those Meta RSUs have done dwadle for total compensation in the past couple years. So the layoffs are piling stress in stress - much lower income and now job uncertainty. As others have noted, transferable skills due to Metas open source contributions are the bright spot.
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So the median income in the US is $70K a year and yet most people aren’t homeless or hungry.
Yes I work for BigTech now. I haven’t been “stressed” about losing my job after the first year when I started working - over 25 years ago. My first mission was to save aggressively.