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This ‘as-told-to’ essay is based on a conversation with Jugal Bhatt, a 24-year-old software engineer at Amazon based in Phoenix. Business Insider has verified his employment with documentation. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.Eight months before graduation, I began searching for a software engineering role. I thought…

In May, after 14 years at Microsoft, Deborah Hendersen began to sense her time at the tech giant might be running out.Several colleagues on partner teams were among the roughly 6,000 employees laid off that month. The news made Hendersen, a user researcher in the company’s Xbox division, worry that…