The early talents ( as we call them @ SAP ) must be laying a brick in their underwear after hearing of these layoffs.
I was a mentor to one of them and told him its every man for himself in corporate America.
If you don't kiss up you will be kissed off. SAP loves to extol the successes of these early talents, no matter how meager.
I saw one where they actually published an extended article about how she figured out how to download to an Access data base.