A layoff was what inspired Julia, an executive at a well known tech company, to move to San Francisco in the first place more than a decade ago. Still, when she learned in mid-April that she was joining the hundreds of thousands of tech workers hit with recent layoffs, she was in shock.
“It took me two days to get out of bed,” said Julia, who asked to remain partially anonymous to speak about her employer. “I went through this deep debrief. I didn’t think that would happen. I did not see this coming.”
