Tech Layoff Tracker@TechLayoffLover
A recruiter who's been placing engineers since the iPhone launch just quit after 15 years because she can't stomach what she's watching anymore
Last month she posted a senior fullstack role at a unicorn fintech company
2,847 applications in 72 hours. Senior engineers with 8+ years at Google, Netflix, Stripe applying for mid-level positions
90% of applicants never got a rejection email. The ATS auto-filtered them into oblivion
But here's the part that broke her: she found out the company wasn't actually hiring humans
The job posting was live to "maintain competitive intelligence" while they built an AI agent to replace their entire payments engineering team
She's been calling candidates back to apologize. Grown engineers crying on the phone about their third straight year of unemployment
One guy told her he's applied to 1,200 positions since his Meta layoff. Has gotten exactly 4 human phone calls
Another candidate: former principal architect, now working at Target for $16 an hour because his savings ran out
The recruiting firm just assigned her 12 new "AI implementation specialist" roles
Translation: they need someone to fire the humans and train the robots
She cleaned out her desk yesterday. Twenty-three years in talent acquisition. Says she'd rather sell insurance than be complicit in this genocide
The job market isn't broken. It's been deliberately demolished
And every recruiter still posting "we're hiring!" is either lying or hasn't figured out they're next
