The tech bubble of the late 90's was a fascinating phenomenon. It was global and widespread. My grandmother had significant money in tech stocks at the time.
The overall amount of money we're talking about here is MUCH smaller than that. A couple of orders of magnitude at least. As such the effects of any bubble popping aren't going to have widespread consequences here.
A major pullback in funding will definitely affect engineers. Jobs will simply be a bit harder to find, but there are so many technology companies operating outside of the startup funding domain that I don't think it will be terribly impactful.
The worst case is we go back to like 2005, which isn't really too bad at all.
The overall amount of money we're talking about here is MUCH smaller than that. A couple of orders of magnitude at least. As such the effects of any bubble popping aren't going to have widespread consequences here.
A major pullback in funding will definitely affect engineers. Jobs will simply be a bit harder to find, but there are so many technology companies operating outside of the startup funding domain that I don't think it will be terribly impactful.
The worst case is we go back to like 2005, which isn't really too bad at all.