Meta, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe. For more than 20 years, the U.S. IT industry has consistently provided soaring stocks and cozy, well-paying employment.In a few of weeks, layoffs struck hard once the parties and benefits wore off. More than 24,000 software workers from 72 businesses have been laid off this month, according to layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job losses in the computer sector, bringing the total number of computing jobs lost this year to 120,000. It’s logical to assume that a reckoning is beginning even though each firm is coping with its own particular issues.