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Laid-off Twitter software engineer calls job market ‘hot garbage’: ‘Maybe I should go be a firefighter’

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Former Twitter employees are pursuing legal recourse over layoff severance packages. Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Getty Images

Former Twitter employees have been struggling to land work in a “hot garbage” job market since Elon Musk pushed them out, Justine De Caires, a former Twitter engineer, said.

“The market is hot garbage right now,” De Caires told CNN. They’re one of the hundreds of former Twitter employees who have sought legal recourse over severance packages offered to laid-off staff members.

De Caires told CNN that the grim market for tech jobs was making them contemplate dramatically different career options.

“I was sitting down earlier this week after a wave of rejections, and I was kind of like, ‘Maybe I should go be a firefighter or something’ … because the tech jobs are just not happening,” they said.

Read more here: https://www.businessinsider.com/laid-off-twitter-engineer-tech-job-market-is-hot-garbage-2023-3

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