<p>Back in 2021, the tech industry was booming. Fueled by generous government subsidies and the pandemic economy, tech companies went on a hiring spree, promising unlimited PTO and upward growth opportunities at open offices where kombucha flowed from every tap. Flash forward to early 2025, and the kombucha has run dry. A wave of mass layoffs is ravishing the tech industry as startup fails skyrocket and tech giants shovel their operating budgets into the AI furnace. And of all the workers devastated by the carnage, former tech workers in Silicon Valley are having a particularly rough go of it. The […]</p>