Are highly educated, highly compensated, and highly privileged folk considered working class now?
Financial literacy is something that desperately needs to be part of the curriculum in high school and I can empathize with people that will struggle as a result of their layoffs even if it's due to their own money mismanagement, but software engineers being laid off from a tech giant are definitely not working class in any sense.
If someone needs to work to make ends meet, then yes they're working class. The capitalist class are those that make their income from the labor of others (The working class).
A person developing software definitionally isn't part of the proletariat or working class, they'd be defined as petite bourgeoisie. Your definition does not make sense in the archaic marxist sense nor does it represent the connotative definition of working class that is more representative of class structure in the world we're currently living in.
Financial literacy is something that desperately needs to be part of the curriculum in high school and I can empathize with people that will struggle as a result of their layoffs even if it's due to their own money mismanagement, but software engineers being laid off from a tech giant are definitely not working class in any sense.