I entered the industry in 2000, and it was "programming geeks"—people who dug computers and thought coding was fun—who survived the dot com bust mostly unscathed. Dabblers, fillers, talkers, people-managers, org-climbers, etc. had some pretty lean years.
That isn't to say some programming geeks didn't get sacked, but they tended to land on their feet. Also, it was often the hard-negotiating salary-seekers who found themselves in the cross-hairs, and possibly facing a slight decrease in standard of living, because of the big price tags they'd put on themselves.
That isn't to say some programming geeks didn't get sacked, but they tended to land on their feet. Also, it was often the hard-negotiating salary-seekers who found themselves in the cross-hairs, and possibly facing a slight decrease in standard of living, because of the big price tags they'd put on themselves.