<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>While the severance definitely makes things easier, layoff season is also a terrible time to look for jobs because there are like 300,000 other qualified candidates with big company credentials in the same situation as you. The cushion isn&amp;#x27;t a luxury but a necessity. In some jurisdictions it is legally required.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>OK, the layoffs suck, and the whole &amp;quot;failed to realize the pandemic growth wasn&amp;#x27;t permanent&amp;quot; thing is getting way overplayed.&lt;p&gt;However, these are some crazy exit packages. Five months of salary? Health insurance through the end of 2024? That&amp;#x27;s a heck of a buffer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scrapcode</author><text>I think it seems fair. Maybe forums are biased toward the negative, but it seems like the market is tough and it is taking even highly qualified individuals at least that amount of time to find something new.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>OK, the layoffs suck, and the whole &amp;quot;failed to realize the pandemic growth wasn&amp;#x27;t permanent&amp;quot; thing is getting way overplayed.&lt;p&gt;However, these are some crazy exit packages. Five months of salary? Health insurance through the end of 2024? That&amp;#x27;s a heck of a buffer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees</url></story>