Earlier this month, a Weibo user took to the Chinese social media platform to vent about challenges in the tech industry. “It’s hard to not to be depressed, to be honest,” she wrote, adding the hashtags “#Alibaba layoffs #Tencent layoffs.”
In the comments section, users encouraged her to cheer up, but in response she wrote, “The current environment is too unfriendly to graduates, schools are closed, and it is so difficult to find a job.”
The user’s posts offer a taste
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