For so long, working in tech has been the ultimate dream job.

Things feel different now.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty-Korino.

During an earnings call last week, Mark Zuckerberg said something that seemed to perfectly

capture the vibe in tech as layoffs continue to climb.

The meta-CEO said the company was, in quote, a phase change, and that 2023 will be a year of efficiency.

For tech workers, it's a striking contrast to a mythology that had been building for more than a decade,

the conspicuously cushy tech job.

A day in my life working from the Google LA office.

You can see it on TikTok, where videos like this one from user Nicole Sy have become a popular genre.

I'm going to head over to the confetti room to take my next meeting.

It's so sparkly and beautiful in here.

I love that a lot of our rooms are thieves.

It's a glittering vision of rainbows and all you can drink cold brew.

But she posted a few weeks later, a day in my life getting laid off at Google.

Q the online shot in Florida.

I'm not rooting for anyone to lose their jobs, but I think there's a big reckoning happening right now with employee expectations.

Nolan Church is now a tech recruiting consultant who previously worked with DoorDash and Google.

He says over the last decade there was a combination of easy money and hard to find talent in tech.

That's for a kind of arms race to be known as the best place to work.

But in hindsight, right, this created a generation of employees who expect to be coddled.

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