Students at the Bay Area’s best universities once dreamed of working for Apple, Google and Meta. Then the lay-offs happened. charlie_mccann reports for 1843 magazine
was here this time. Neither were Spotify, Salesforce, Uber or Microsoft. In any case most of those companies and almost 50 others – “all the famous ones” – had already rejected her internship applications a few months earlier. And that was before the. There were 120,000 tech lay-offs in January and February alone; Alphabet, Google’s parent company, accounted for 10% of those lost jobs. By the time the fair came round in March, Ayara had scaled back her ambitions.
“Looks like you’ve worked for some big companies,” the recruiter said approvingly. “So why are you interested in Juniper? Do you know something about our company or just exploring?”The recruiter, who wore a Berkeley alum badge on his-shirt, nodded politely. He explained that a primary focus of the company is network security. “Are you interested in security?”
Even if they succeed in snagging an internship, their position is precarious. Some computer-science majors have had their internships cancelled; those with job offers have had their start dates pushed back, according to Sue Harbour, the executive director of the college career centre. They are the lucky ones. Several students told me that they had applied for jobs and internships at hundreds of companies with no offers to show for their efforts.
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