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> It felt like the recession mostly affected the housing market and older career folks, but for us new grads things were mostly normal.

Yeah, they weren't. You were in a STEM bubble, which back in 2008 probably was the only bubble that could still get jobs "the old way", without going through application hell.

Also, the job market was way worse in 09-10 than it was in 2008, especially first half of 2008.




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