The latest round of layoffs at tech companies has begun, and several friends around me are grinding interview problems. Some are still checking in on the group chat at 10 p.m. with LeetCode, only calling it a night after posting a screenshot of “three problems today.” Others set up online mock interviews on weekends, rotating between system design, standard interview questions, and project retrospectives. They’ve revised their résumés five times, and even the definition of a single metric in a project gets scrutinized over and over. Honestly, I’ve grown a little numb from hearing so much about layoffs. According to the layoff-tracking website