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The "we're in a hiring freeze" press releases all have fairly broad asterisks. New people are being onboarded daily in all of the companies that announced layoffs.


That’s true, but those same companies still wound up doing layoffs later on. So if your criteria is not to work at a company without layoffs then you’re still SOL.


I'd rather join a company post-layoff than pre-layoff.


Say you're at company A. Company A and B do layoffs of similar size. Why is switching to company B after the layoffs your preferred action?


Of course. But in a recession there can be multiple rounds of layoffs.




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