Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

[Apollo Creed]

My boy just left Google. He was making the same, maybe a bit more. Dropped out of high school.

Interviewing with Meta, Netflix, and Quant firms while traveling Asia in a haze of coding, jetlag cheap beer, and loose women.

His experience was similar to hers. Enjoyed the food and laundry. Enjoyed shuttling on specially chartered buses. Sounded cool to say he worked at Google.

Was disappointed in how silo'd everything felt. Didn't enjoy the team and the turnover. All the good engineers left, he got stuck with awful Indian women as managers.

He's a high school drop out. fukk a MIT degree.

Lol why do we act like the high school drop outs who make it in these places are some indicator of education being useless when they are a super rare minority who would have excelled academically either way?

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Lol why do we act like the high school drop outs who make it in these places are some indicator of education being useless when they are a super rare minority who would have excelled academically either way?

Not acting like anything, just giving his background. I'm big on school, I'm sure he would've finished if he wasn't a head case.

Dude grew up in a trailer park, never finished high school or college.

He took a few classes at a two year, professor was like, "you should be at Harvard."

He's kind of a head case...all the time, but that's what it is.

It just is.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Not acting like anything, just giving his background. I'm big on school, I'm sure he would've finished if he wasn't a head case.

Dude grew up in a trailer park, never finished high school or college.

He took a few classes at a two year, professor was like, "you should be at Harvard."

He's kind of a head case...all the time, but that's what it is.

It just is.

I assume he is a cac. Im just saying that the education level of so called brilliant people is irrelevant as they would do what they do regardless. The emphasis on it create false narratives that non brilliant people rush to to validate their academic failures.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

I assume he is a cac. Im just saying that the education level of so called brilliant people is irrelevant as they would do what they do regardless. The emphasis on it create false narratives that non brilliant people rush to to validate their academic failures.

Stop assuming. He's a big black dude.

"So-called brilliant people" are often destructive, mostly self-destructive.

Crippling anxieties.

Maybe it evens everything out?

 

[Apollo Creed]

Stop assuming. He's a big black dude.

"So-called brilliant people" are often destructive, mostly self-destructive.

Crippling anxieties.

Maybe it evens everything out?

You one of them kinda nikkas. Enjoy your day

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

You one of them kinda nikkas. Enjoy your day

? What?

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Problem is a lack of analysis. This is disingenuous bullshyt that only plays to a certain crowd. Often the case with doom and gloom forecasters.

Let's take Google. The company added 20k jobs in 2021 and another 35k in 2022. They reduced headcount in '24 but are still up 50k jobs since '20.

Same is true of Meta (up 20k jobs overall) and Microsoft (up 60k jobs overall). Headcount increased dramatically, there are a few rounds of correction but overall growth since '20.

Probably easier to find a FAANG gig now than at any point prior to '20.

'20-'22 were hiring free for alls.

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

People didn't believe she made 300k? Weird. Most people leave Google because of comperatively low pay.



My boy just left Google (AWS before). He was making the same, maybe a bit more. Dropped out of high school.

Interviewing with Meta, Netflix, and Quant firms while traveling Asia in a haze of coding, jetlag, cheap beer, and easy women.

His experience was similar to hers. Enjoyed the food and laundry. Enjoyed shuttling on specially chartered buses. Sounded cool to say he worked at Google.

Was disappointed in how silo'd everything felt. Didn't enjoy the team and the turnover. All the good engineers left, he got stuck with two awful Indian women as managers.

He's a high school drop out. fukk a MIT degree.

Interesting.

Not acting like anything, just giving his background. I'm big on school, I'm sure he would've finished if he wasn't a head case.

Dude grew up in a trailer park, never finished high school or college.

He took a few classes at a two year, professor was like, "you should be at Harvard."

He's kind of a head case...all the time, but that's what it is.

It just is.

Yeah he sounds like an anamoly too.
But then again I’ve met ppl who’ve worked at google and meta and said not everyone is a genius there lol

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

Problem is a lack of analysis. This is disingenuous bullshyt that only plays to a certain crowd. Often the case with doom and gloom forecasters.

Let's take Google. The company added 20k jobs in 2021 and another 35k in 2022. They reduced headcount in '24 but are still up 50k jobs since '20.

Same is true of Meta (up 20k jobs overall) and Microsoft (up 60k jobs overall). Headcount increased dramatically, there are a few rounds of correction but overall growth since '20.

Probably easier to find a FAANG gig now than at any point prior to '20.

'20-'22 were hiring free for alls.

 

[IIVI]

Interesting.

Yeah he sounds like an anamoly too.
But then again I’ve met ppl who’ve worked at google and meta and said not everyone is a genius there lol

They definitely aren’t.

In comparison nearly all people who are in STEM programs at schools like Caltech and M.I.T are actual geniuses.

What it takes to make it into those schools is far more spectacular than what it takes to make it into Google. For example, for those schools the kids have shown that they can learn and ace college-level Multivariable Calculus courses by the time they’re 15 or 16. If you can do that then you’re clearly made from something different. Not to mention all the extracurriculars. Someone mentioned in one of these youtube videos that these kids by the time are finished with high school are more accomplished that 90% of the working adults and that is not a stretch to say.

To make it into Google all you got to do is pass some Leetcode rounds.

 

[JT-Money]

 

[Dorian Breh]

Every thread crying about not being able to compete in the job market

Maybe if you had skills you’d be less scary…

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

They definitely aren’t.

In comparison nearly all people who are in STEM programs at schools like Caltech and M.I.T are actual geniuses.

They are smart, academically competitive, organized, highly driven.

Once you get past the selectivity, much of what is taught in undergrad is similar to what is taught at a decent state school.

Same goes for Stanford, etc.

 

[JT-Money]

Every thread crying about not being able to compete in the job market

Maybe if you had skills you’d be less scary…

Shouldn't you be busy sorting packages at your Warehouse job?

 

[IIVI]

They are smart, academically competitive, organized, highly driven.

Once you get past the selectivity, much of what is taught in undergrad is similar to what is taught at a decent state school.

Same goes for Stanford, etc.

The resources, tech and research they have access to though are far far more than any other school though. If a Caltech/M.I.T/Stanford/etc. student for example pings a researcher from another school that researcher will be all ears and willing to collaborate. Everyone knows the kind of capability and weight those students have because they’re not normal nor even simply above average.

Programs and curriculums may be the same as you can see in M.I.T OCW, but what people don’t see are the problem sets, assignments, lab work, team design projects, etc.