Kaitlyn Lynch works at desk Thursday afternoon at Alaska Airlines’ The Hub in SeaTac, Washington. Given tech’s still outsized role in the Seattle-area economy, its recent downturn is likely to have broader, hard-to-ignore impacts. — The Seattle Times/TNS
Like many of the thousands of workers cut recently by Seattle-area tech firms, Eric, a former Amazon software engineer, recalls his layoff as a kind of one-two gut punch.
On top of the shock of losing a US$200,000-plus salary-and-stock package, the 30-something Seattleite found himself in a job market that was more crowded, and much less generous, than it had been even six months before.
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