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Hello Data geek and welcome to the new incredible 350 folks who subscribed to this newsletter in 2023.

First, I wanted to say Happy New Year 2023.

Unfortunately, this year started with a series of layoffs in many organizations in the tech industry:

• Salesforce (10% workforce)

• Vimeo (11% workforce)

• Amazon (18,000 employees)

• Twitter (40 Software Engineers)

• Astronomer (over 20% around 76 employees)

• Carbon Health (200 employees)

• Coinbase (950 employees)

• Microsoft (10,000 employees)

• Alphabet (12,000 employees)

• and more

I know this is highly complex news but stay with me here because perhaps this could be a unique opportunity for your next career move in 2023.

BTW: a significant positive outcome of this mess is that the Carbon Health team did something remarkable: they asked the tech community to share which companies were hiring in this market, and the response was simply overwhelming.

Bravo Eren Bali and team:

You can read in this link all companies hiring today.

Some names are Mercury, AllaraHealth, Flexpa (one of the companies which have shared great positions on our Job Board), HealthyGamer, AtroposHealth, and more.

So: if you are actively looking for a role, check out this list above.

Now, let’s concentrate on the CyberSecurity industry.

Your next role could be in CyberSecurity

Among some beers and a good piece of Cuban-style roasted pork, I was sharing some memories from the last year with a group of friends, and one of them asked a very interesting question:

I thought for a moment because I knew that one or two of them will actually listen to this and apply my advice, but my answer was a little surprising for some of them:

But before continuing, let me clarify this as well: this industry is not excepted of layoffs as well.

Many security-focused organizations have downsized their workforce as well: to be exact 48 companies and 4093 professionals were part of these layoffs, according to the website layoffs.fyi.

Some of the best-known names were:

• Snyk (14% of the workforce)

• ForeScout (10% of the workforce)

• Latch (28% of the workforce)

• IronNet (17% workforce in June 2022 and 35% of the remaining workforce in September 2022)

• Cybereason (100 employees)

• Armis Security (3.5% of the workforce around 25 employees)

(writer of ) was one of the first ones to report the Lacework layoffs:

But let me make this clear as well:

• Even with all these series of layoffs in the industry, I still believe that there is a significant opportunity to be part of it and skyrocket your career

• I’m not saying that you shouldn’t apply for these companies that conducted layoffs, you just have to be more careful about it, and try to understand the financial health of each company you will apply for.

Why CyberSecurity? Let me try to expand on that