It's been quite sometime since I was laid off from Devon. I completely understand that it was necessary as a cost reduction for people to be laid off. After having so much time to process everything and reflect, I'm not bitter anymore and have moved on. However, I do know this: there are for sure politics that pay a big a part in the layoffs and still feel wronged in a few ways.
A. They don't go by performance.
B. Some people you thought were your friends are not.
The parts that still bother me to this day are that they make you show metrics each quarter, however numbers didn't matter in the end. The most disappointing part though was some of the people you thought you were closest to didn't reach out afterwards or cut you off even as a reference. Additionally, new people from off the streets that had no knowledge or experience got to stay and they hired more new people off the streets after the layoffs instead of allowing those "friends" that were in a world of hurt looking for work to come back. You must really despise someone to take people off the streets instead of people who had given their best to a company and people you called your "friends". With that said, I've moved on and forgiven, but that experience will forever make me a little more guarded with my trust in people.