Tech layoffs and AI force early-career software engineers to adjust

This year, the layoffs came one after another.

Microsoft in May cut 1,985 employees in Washington. Three weeks later, it laid off 305 more, and a month after that it cut an additional 805 employees.

TikTok, F5, Oracle, T-Mobile and Salesforce all issued layoffs affecting hundreds of people soon after. Then, Amazon said Oct. 28 that it would lay off 2,303 local employees, while leaving the door open for more cuts.

Those layoffs, alongside the rising development of artificial intelligence, are rewriting the playbook for early-career software engineers looking for jobs in tech.

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