Learn to code, they said! And then the layoffs started happening...
The tech industry is hemorrhaging jobs. According to one estimate, there have been over 700,000 tech workers laid off since 2022. But there was once a time when “learn to code” was the advice de rigueur for laid-off workers, and a lot of resources went into teaching kids computer science. So if a cushy position in tech isn’t a “good” job anymore… what is? Brittany discusses this with
Rya Jetha, tech culture reporter for the
San Francisco Standard, and
Natasha Singer, technology reporter for
The New York Times and author of the upcoming book
Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools.
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