The year the Big Tech job market cracked
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Tech job seekers faced a tough market in 2025 amid layoffs and slow hiring. Cuts at Big Tech firms like Amazon and Microsoft helped fuel fierce competition. Business Insider asked tech job seekers about their challenges — and how some overcame them. When Mody Khan lost his job at Microsoft last December, he was hopeful he'd bounce back quickly. But the tech job market had other ideas. Now, a year later, he's still looking. Despite a five-year run at Microsoft as a cloud solution architect, he said, even landing interviews has been a struggle. "I've been constantly applying, and I've had interviews, but I've been turned down everywhere," said Khan, who is in his 50s and lives in Texas. In the meantime, he's exhausted his rainy day fund and fallen behind on his mortgage payments. He's now worried he could lose his home. "I had savings, and I've depleted almost all of it," he said. "I...
