For engineers and other tech workers, landing a job with one of the industry’s best-known companies was long the ultimate professional achievement.
Now, many Silicon Valley veterans are being driven to new paths far from the tech giants, prizing stability and personal values over prestige.
Laid-off tech workers are finding jobs with smaller and midsize firms, landing tech roles at nontech companies and becoming freelance consultants. It is an unconventional mix, at least for a group of people used to having an abundance of choice working for names in tech.
But amid rescinded offers and ghost job postings as well as round after round of layoffs, the priorities of tech workers have shifted.
“The majority of folks that have been laid off from big tech companies, they’ve been disillusioned,” said Chris Rice, a partner with Riviera Partners, an executive-search firm that places leadership talent in software-engineering, product-management and design positions.
It used to be that people could spend years of their careers at large tech companies without worrying about layoffs. That is no longer true, he said.
These days, because of the state of the job market, more people are pursuing tech jobs outside the tech industry or at startups that align with their passions, in fields such as green energy or artificial intelligence.
Percentage of technology workers changing jobs that found employment outside the industry
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