Tech companies are facing a crisis "hiring"

[Michael's Black Son]

Well, the interesting thing is that the status quo of old is so unpopular, that these companies are learning the hard way that the top notch talent they want to exploit opened pandora's box and leaving them. Some of these baby boomer CACs like 75 years old, and when all of this is happening in the last 2-3 years. Even worse is when Gen Z males of all races are not even going to college anymore, and knowingly facing the hard realities that 80% of their employees will be catty, unhappy women in middle to upper positions due to the lack of availability of college grad males under 25. Gonna look very interesting in the next 5 to 7 years when the baby boomers are gone from the work force entirely and Gen X are entering their 60s.

breh some of these companies kinda don’t care because they know they can still reel in young employees who need money, want a foot in the door and are sold that finesse of one day moving up a few rungs (and some will move up)

but the name brand legacy companies have all either built up the tech arms of their business out of necessity or flat out gobbled up a smaller firm for a few million. And the transition hasn’t been that hard since at a base level these companies have a bunch of IT dudes in house already — might as well bring in the engineers along with mid 40s CTO

as for the top end (and management) at these legacy companies, most of them will die/retire in these positions. There’s no second act for them unless they have name recognition that could pay off elsewhere (like Anna Wintour getting a bag to go to a popular fashion start up).

 

[Robbie3000]

All that shyt is CAP......there is no job crisis, they do not hire Black people point blank.

When I was hiring for my open positions under me at my old job, the recruiter's would rarely send me Black candidates. When I found Black candidates, I would try to hire them and I would get overrided, so what I did is that I worked with the temp agency that the company had a contract with and hired a brother and paid him more than the others under me.

My manager was mad as shyt and I did not give a fukk, I was planning on leaving the job anyways. I would argue with my manager every week because they wanted to get rid of him and told the brother your not going to stay here, your work her for a couple of months, and soak up the game from me and I'll help you move on to a something else.

He worked there for a couple of months and every week I was arguing with my manager, then he told me that he found another job and is going to start and it is paying way more money and I told him see nikka I told you and then about 2 days later I quit and walked off the job.

Mr McDowell wouldn’t even hire you to wash lettuce.

 

[Batsute]

Insane standards where you need experience in more one than profession, hiring only on preferred requirements, and only looking to check their diversity boxes.

I legit crushed the preliminary interview with a huge tech company last week and had my second round set up for next. The hiring manager sent me a meeting cancellation yesterday for the 2nd round

. bytch y’all reached to me

 

[Michael's Black Son]

All that shyt is CAP......there is no job crisis, they do not hire Black people point blank.

When I was hiring for my open positions under me at my old job, the recruiter's would rarely send me Black candidates. When I found Black candidates, I would try to hire them and I would get overrided, so what I did is that I worked with the temp agency that the company had a contract with and hired a brother and paid him more than the others under me.

My manager was mad as shyt and I did not give a fukk, I was planning on leaving the job anyways. I would argue with my manager every week because they wanted to get rid of him and told the brother your not going to stay here, your work her for a couple of months, and soak up the game from me and I'll help you move on to a something else.

He worked there for a couple of months and every week I was arguing with my manager, then he told me that he found another job and is going to start and it is paying way more money and I told him see nikka I told you and then about 2 days later I quit and walked off the job.

yup.

there could be 100 positions open and they will never throw any kind of real bread at brehs. Never in a trillion years.

Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about.

They will pretend like the black talent simply doesn’t exist while already having candidates in mind for the shyt. Or funnel you into the interview stage and magically you don’t have the skills for some shyt that you easily qualify for. Tale as old as time.

 

[King Poetic]

I honestly want to see the numbers of black candidates that’s been recruited

 

[JLova]

All that shyt is CAP......there is no job crisis, they do not hire Black people point blank.

When I was hiring for my open positions under me at my old job, the recruiter's would rarely send me Black candidates. When I found Black candidates, I would try to hire them and I would get overrided, so what I did is that I worked with the temp agency that the company had a contract with and hired a brother and paid him more than the others under me.

My manager was mad as shyt and I did not give a fukk, I was planning on leaving the job anyways. I would argue with my manager every week because they wanted to get rid of him and told the brother your not going to stay here, your work her for a couple of months, and soak up the game from me and I'll help you move on to a something else.

He worked there for a couple of months and every week I was arguing with my manager, then he told me that he found another job and is going to start and it is paying way more money and I told him see nikka I told you and then about 2 days later I quit and walked off the job.

This is unfortunate and I know it happens. As a black breh in tech I have done pretty well getting interviews and offers. But, I know my complexion holds me back. I'm just happy I have a "white" name. At least it gets me in the door and then I take over. No doubt I get second guessed or have to do more for leadership roles which is why I shy away from them. I also don't want to manage a bunch of mafukkaz who already have their own opinions of me just from my skin color. Brehs in tech should know. My resume is impressive and despite doing well for myself, I should be doing better.

You know who gave me my first shot? A breh...there is no way I would have gotten a job at IBM at 20 any other way. We need more people that look like us to give us thse opportunities. When I used to be part of the hiring process, I was always looking for brehs to hire, but there were so few to pick from. Doesn't help that a lot of these companies poach directly from India.

 

[Solomon Lurke]

I just went back into the workforce for the first time in two years. Been running my own online resale business, but in the effort to grow the business and hit some other goals I decided it was time to find another gig. This is the easiest time I’ve ever had finding a job. Literally only two weeks from the day I decided to start applying until I was hired. Companies were trying to move so fast it shook me up a bit, but made me realize I had all the power now. Had one place that was in office that I didn’t even walk into because I saw too many maskless people going in while waiting on my interview, so I ghosted. Ultimately went with a remote position of course and they were shipping out 2 laptops, keyboards, monitors and even pens and notepads before I even did my drug test. It’s a wild time. Like stated by others this is definitely a great break out time for people new to the tech world.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

People who were previously employed in tech are making a killing on the bitcoin markets why are they going to clock in and clock out and report to @Another Man .

 

[Rich Spirit]

Trying to break into tech in project management and business analysis and it’s been tough. Companies want hands on experience which I don’t have and there’s not enough entry level/junior roles out there to build experience on. If anyone knows of any opportunities, let me know.

 

[Batsute]

Trying to break into tech in project management and business analysis and it’s been tough. Companies want hands on experience which I don’t have and there’s not enough entry level/junior roles out there to build experience on. If anyone knows of any opportunities, let me know.

You’re gonna have to look at smaller companies that don’t pay as much to build up that experience.

Try getting Linkedin premium free for a month and abuse that inmail. I got 5 interviews this month with big companies.

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

I mean, what did you expect them to do? They're not gonna have you on the clock while also trying to run your own business at the same time. The time for people to go all out for workers' rights was the summer of 202 but you had a segment who were ready to get back to life and back to work. They squandered a major opportunity to hold these folks in a bind and it was the prime opportunity to get back some of the workers rights that were loss over the last 40 years.


I've had three Fed agencies call and offer me gigs the past two weeks but I've turned them down because a) they wanted me to start immediately and b) all three were in the middle of nowhere. I'm in no rush to go back to work. I got a couple of streams of guaranteed $$ so I'm not pressed. And even if I were, I'm not giving up big city living just to go live in middle of nowhere America. fukk that.

I've been thinking about this, because it is a good question. What I arrived at is, if you are paying me as a contractor, then I should be treated as a contractor. I should be treated like "get your work done" mentality. Perhaps their reason of not understanding this is why the job is not only open, but been open for so long.

 

[Listen]

I work at a software company and it is so real…I’m an old head and I’ve never seen anything like it.

I just got promoted and it took 3 weeks for the HR team to formally get it approved in all our systems because they are so backed up. We have like 300 open jobs and we’ve lost like 3 recruiters in the last 4 months.

They are desperately trying to hire back up recruiters….to help fill the open jobs lol, it’s bananas.

This is like a 2,000 person company by the way, so decent size but not massive…that is a LOT of job openings for a company that size.

 

[dtownreppin214]

5 years ago I made a 180-degree career shift into tech from banking at age 27. Spent 3 months studying hardcore, and eventually got a front-end job at $50k/yr (through tech recruiter). Spent 2 years there, went through A LOT of "imposter syndrome". I was miserable. But eventually, I settled down and started immersing myself in the tech community in my city to explore other fields in tech (I had no intention of staying in front-end). Eventually, I landed my first 6-fig gig in Big Data Engineer (through LinkedIn). I've worked in Big Data for the last 3 years. I'm now in Big Data/DevOps making nearly $200k/yr and will be fully vested in a shytload of stock in 2023. Tech is a great field with endless opportunities for growth. Big Data is a nice niche if you're looking for an area that isn't oversaturated. Just take a leap of faith and understand that you will do most of your learning on the job and that's OK, these companies understand that and spend a lot of money on upskilling their employees for that very reason. Post-BLM movement all of these tech companies have diversity initiatives, so this is the best time to get in brehs/brehettes.

 

[duckbutta]

I still get beaucoup emails daily from recruiters

And a lot of these mafukkas will just flat out call without reaching out by email 1st


I fukking hate that shyt

I have recruiters straight up text my work phone

I had this woman straight hounding me to interview to be the director of IT for some start up...so i went to one interview just to see what it was like...i walked out feeling like my current salary is about as much as their entire IT budget...she called and said the interview was great and if I wanted the job it was mine...I said I work at a fortune 100 company why would I trade that stability in to go work at a place that might not have enough money to exist in 6 months . And they definitely won't be around cause they are not offering anything special when it comes to cloud. They didn't even know what core extensions where and how much they cost. shyt was funny but tragic

 

[Rich Spirit]

You’re gonna have to look at smaller companies that don’t pay as much to build up that experience.

Try getting Linkedin premium free for a month and abuse that inmail. I got 5 interviews this month with big companies.

Thanks breh, I do have LinkedIn premium. I do need to take advantage of that inmail feature