I'm a "high performer", a core collaborator in a big open source project and a library maintainer of a few libraries with 10M+ weekly downloads on NPM. I have a BSc in CS and lots of "good" industry experience in strong start ups for long-ish ( 5 year ) durations.
I'm definitely going to be impacted by this recession. I was impacted by the 2008 recession and I was impacted by the dot-com bubble. A lot of friends went to do enterprise Java at banks, jobs without glamour and other things to pay the bills.
There are a lot of things I get away with right now that I won't be able to get away with anymore.
Also don't forget that "high performers" are more expensive and a lot of times "mid performers" do a good-enough job, so high performers had to compromise for mid-performer salaries during recessions.
Obviously start-ups closing and less funding all around also changes the supply-demand balance in the short term. It's likely to induce job changes and closures for at least some of us.
>A lot of friends went to do enterprise Java at banks
Perhaps I'm projecting but I think that cloud skills will be the enterprise Java/.Net of this recession. There is a trough of skills and a pretty clear line, it reminds me of desktop apps to web apps around 2008 as well.
