Something alot of these articles miss is that non-tech companies that are hiring laid off tech workers from big tech companies lack the technical infrastructure that made everyones’ lives easier at big tech companies. As an engineer at a non-tech company, you have to deal with a ton of bs by yourself and there’s no unified system, codebase, libraries, design language, etc. The salary, options, etc are all obviously worse but the day to day becomes a real headache when you leave big tech for these non-tech companies.