Commentary: Entrepreneurial students should not fear Big Tech’s layoffs
by Hayes Ferguson, Chicago Tribune
Dec 14, 2022
3 minutes
Many of my students have a lifelong dream to work in Big Tech after graduation. Regardless of whether a student is a computer science or a marketing major, the allure of working for Google, Meta or Amazon — or any of the major tech companies — is deep-seated and fierce.
When massive tech layoffs started dominating the news — about half of Twitter’s 7,500-person workforce, followed by 11,000 at Meta and 10,000 at Amazon — I initially was concerned for my current students at Northwestern University, where I lead the Farley Center
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