Telecom I will say is full of old people who have had cushy jobs forever who aren't really good at their jobs nor keep up with the times. Most of these companies are making all of the cuts on the operations side because honestly a lot of that stuff can be automated now. A lot of those folks on the operations side make good money just off of decades of merit increases and a few promotions. Pretty much if you were born after 1970 you can't afford to get a job and coast anymore like those in the past could. you have to continuously stay on top of your skills, even if you go the entrepreneur route, the internet has made it where most of the BS small businesses that survived in the past dont stand a chance now (because those businesses were really just middle men to wholesalers in china).
Breh I work in telecom and they always move these jobs overseas as the economy slows down.
Telecom is one of the biggest penny pinching fields out there from a top level management bean counting perspective.
Also compared to other fields..aerospace, defense, automobile industry and etc....they don't get the massive tax breaks from the states like many of those industries.
Another thing they don't move these jobs cause of automation. They move them because of labor rates. The avg labor rate in mexico is 4 dollars an hour, india 6 bucks an hour and china about 9 bucks an hour. Compared to 40 bucks an hour in the states.
That automated shyt is overated cause you go to india, china, mexico and mothafukkas doing that building by hand.
And it aint just operations jobs getting shipped overseas. So is design work and programming which usually goes to china.
The biggest hold up is that they can't ship everything overseas cause their biggest sheep customers are americans (plus the quality sucks overseas outside of europe). So they need to continuously grow the market overseas to eventually gain more markets and place work over there.