Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

[JT-Money]

I hate these bytchazz Hackathons. Just another way to get more work out of employees.

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work​

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html

Three Amazon engineers said that managers had increasingly pushed them to use A.I. in their work over the past year. The engineers said that the company had raised output goals and had become less forgiving about deadlines. It has even encouraged coders to gin up new A.I. productivity tools at an upcoming hackathon, an internal coding competition. One Amazon engineer said his team was roughly half the size it had been last year, but it was expected to produce roughly the same amount of code by using A.I.

Other tech companies are moving in the same direction. In a memo to employees in April, the chief executive of Shopify, a company that helps entrepreneurs build and manage e-commerce websites, announced that “A.I. usage is now a baseline expectation” and that the company would “add A.I. usage questions” to performance reviews.

Google recently told employees it would soon hold a companywide hackathon in which one category would be creating A.I. tools that could “enhance their overall daily productivity,” according to an internal announcement. Winning teams will receive $10,000. A Google spokesman noted that more than 30 percent of the company’s code is now suggested by A.I. and accepted by developers.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

why would i vote for them nikkas that will cost me more in the long run? Im ok with a little discomfort from working with Indians. I can handle them, apply pressure every fcking day to them.

but trump and bannon will gut everything

How is it of "little discomfort" when you're claiming that Indians are being brought in to replace American tech workers?

Sounds like an existential threat to your livelihood, family, society. Cheap labor gutting the American workforce is at the heart of the political conversation and the side you voted for is offering absolutely nothing.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

You’re not even a Software/Hardware Engineer so stfu and prove it if you are or stop posting your garbage in here.

All you have been doing over the last month is insulting people who have been commonly posting and building here in this thread for years. Blaming people for failing their interviews and shyt during hard times. Tf?

Stop talking a big game and actually post helpful shyt like I have multiple times in here over the years or scram. Actual technical helpful posts, not shallow surface level “common sense” advice along with insults like you’ve been doing the last month. “Try harder” is not considered helpful advice. If people like you work at Google like you claim you are then I’m glad I’m not there. You’re the one who’s toxic af here so why would anyone want to work with someone like that on their team?

As I thought, not a single post in the Software Development thread by you either. That thread been going on longer than 10 years. Don’t give an excuse like you haven’t seen it or are “above it” either.

Still don't get it. Have a flight coming up, will address you then.

 

[IIVI]

Still don't get it. Have a flight coming up, will address you then.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

You’re not even a Software/Hardware Engineer so stfu and prove it if you are or stop posting your garbage in here.

This is silly, but I'll post a couple of previous badges. Will not post current academic or corporate.

Old Amazon corporate (built really cool shyt)

Old Google FTE (built cool shyt, tech led cool shyt)

Old Google corporate card

From research days

We spoke about MIT earlier. My Ex (fairly recent breakup) did undergrad and grad there.

And more that I won't discuss.

All of this is meaningless. No one cares. Again, my boy has an 8th grade education, better than me and the ex.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

All you have been doing over the last month is insulting people who have been commonly posting and building here in this thread for years. Blaming people for failing their interviews and shyt during hard times. Tf?

That's the problem, people like you posting for years and not saying anything. Whatever you're saying is based on your zero success at the highest levels, what advice could you possibly have in helping others get there?

Have posted detailed thoughts on how to approach interviews.

Posted details on my boy who has no formal education but kills it, travels the world, and marches to the beat of his own drum.

The whole point is to get people out of their own way and let them know what is possible, not post doom and gloom bullshyt every day. None of that is meaningful (there is meaningful analysis about tech employment out there, but this doom and gloom clickbait stuff doesn't come close to that).

 

[IIVI]

This is silly, but I'll post a couple of previous badges. Will not post current academic or corporate.

Old Amazon corporate (built really cool shyt)

Old Google FTE (built cool shyt, tech led cool shyt)

Old Google corporate card

From research days

We spoke about MIT earlier. My Ex (fairly recent breakup) did undergrad and grad there.

And more that I won't discuss.

All of this is meaningless. No one cares. Again, my boy has an 8th grade education, better than me and the ex.

What did you do at these companies though? Were you a legit software/hardware engineer? It sounds like your background is non-dev/network/sysadmin which is far different from landing SWE roles at FAANG and the interview circus act. The fact in your interview scenario where you mention TCP/IP also indicates a non-SWE type of interview.

Eh. I don't know about that.

My progression:

41K - Helpdesk (Sec+)
55K - Systems Engineer
65K - Same
75K - Security Engineer (CISSP, CCNA, Sec+)
85K - Network Engineer
105K - Security Engineer

- Another company is looking to bring me on at 125K in the next two weeks.

Certs: Security+, CCNA, CISSP
Degree: None, didn't even graduate high school.
Experience: ~5 years

Honestly, I'm just coasting right now. For a long time I wasn't concerned about money so I didn't push for anything. Pushing, I should get to 130k+ in the next year or so.

Other thread you said you only went to high school so how are you even doing Stanford research? Genuinely curious question, not being combative.

Time also counts. 99.99% you’re not breaking into these big FAANG companies without a legit college degree today as a SWE. It won’t even break the automatic filter.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

What did you do at these companies though? Were you a legit software/hardware engineer? It sounds like your background is non-dev/network/sysadmin which is far different from landing SWE roles at FAANG and the interview circus act. The fact in your interview scenario where you mention TCP/IP also indicates a non-SWE type of interview.



Other thread you said you only went to high school so how are you even doing Stanford research? Genuinely curious question, not being combative.

Time also counts. 99.99% you’re not breaking into these big FAANG companies without a legit college degree today as a SWE. It won’t even break the automatic filter.

Without looking at the date of that, must be old. Like Obama administration old information there.

Initially didn't care about FAANG, then my boy (no degree guy) moved to California and shot the moon. Our other boy followed, went to a UC though, finished, and shot the moon.

Because I'm not a dummy, I noticed my boys were growing up and they helped me build the mentality. Many hours on the phone.

Started to care very quickly.

That's what you do in threads like this. You build the correct mentality.

SWE at FAANG (and whatever else I do now)

Btw, even if someone is not, the same applies. Find a way to win. Better to work infrastructure role at FAANG than almost any other role in any other company.

My boy from Europe used a different role to transition to SWE at Google. He just reached principal (big deal at Google).

Other friend started as a security engineer at FAANG and is now killing it as a manager.

It doesn't matter. Win the game in front of you.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

The fact in your interview scenario where you mention TCP/IP also indicates a non-SWE type of interview.

Also mentioned pointers, ASIC programming, and a bunch of other stuff.

Again, I see why you got stuck at some shyt state school and in some shyt role. Also see why you're addicted to doom and gloom predictions and nonsense.

 

[IIVI]

Also mentioned pointers, ASIC programming, and a bunch of other stuff.

Again, I see why you got stuck at some shyt state school and in some shyt role. Also see why you're addicted to doom and gloom predictions and nonsense.

I’m happy with my career breh, remote work for nearly the last 10 years making a little under $200k.

I don’t got to wake up early and fight traffic tomorrow. Work less than 15 hours per week, sometimes less than 5 and don’t got to fight traffic. That’s another reason I don’t switch up: I’m never going back into another office. Hybrid FAANG isn’t appealing to me, at all.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

I’m happy with my career breh, remote work for nearly the last 10 years making a little under $200k.

I don’t got to wake up early and fight traffic tomorrow. Work less than 15 hours per week, sometimes less than 5. There’s a another reason I don’t switch up. I’m never going back into another office.

Sounds good. Best of luck.

Stop giving shyt advice to others.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Time also counts. 99.99% you’re not breaking into these big FAANG companies without a legit college degree today as a SWE.

Once again, not true and is based on zero actual knowledge of the environment.

Stop giving this shyt advice is all.

 

[IIVI]

Without looking at the date of that, must be old. Like Obama administration old information there.

Initially didn't care about FAANG, then my boy (no degree guy) moved to California and shot the moon. Our other boy followed, went to a UC though, finished, and shot the moon.

Because I'm not a dummy, I noticed my boys were growing up and they helped me build the mentality. Many hours on the phone.

Started to care very quickly.

That's what you do in threads like this. You build the correct mentality.

SWE at FAANG (and whatever else I do now)

Btw, even if someone is not, the same applies. Find a way to win. Better to work infrastructure role at FAANG than almost any other role in any other company.

My boy from Europe used a different role to transition to SWE at Google. He just reached principal (big deal at Google).

Other friend started as a security engineer at FAANG and is now killing it as a manager.

It doesn't matter. Win the game in front of you.

You got in early and that’s great. I also don’t disagree with the message: find whatever way in you can.

Getting into these roles today still isn’t as simple as back then though when the market was hot prior to 2023. Saying otherwise isn’t accurate and not “doom and gloom”, it’s reality.

shyt, I’ve always been the one here saying you got to level up now more than ever because it’s not at simple. I still don’t think it’s harder to break into Google than it is Caltech, M.I.T, etc. though.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

I’m happy with my career breh, remote work for nearly the last 10 years making a little under $200k.

I don’t got to wake up early and fight traffic tomorrow. Work less than 15 hours per week, sometimes less than 5 and don’t got to fight traffic. That’s another reason I don’t switch up: I’m never going back into another office. Hybrid FAANG isn’t appealing to me, at all.

Funny how you have so much to say about FAANG, yet, don't want to work there, happy where you are, etc.

When I wasn't working, I didn't care.

Didn't have opinions on it the inside baseball of it, wasn't my world, why would I?

If I did have questions or opinions, I would defer to others who worked it and learn.

 

[IIVI]

Funny how you have so much to say about FAANG, yet, don't want to work there, happy where you are.

When I wasn't working, I didn't care.

Didn't have opinions on it the inside baseball of it, wasn't my world, why would I?

If I did have questions or opinions, I would defer to others.

I didn’t either.

All I said was people who work at FAANG aren’t all geniuses and I think on average people who go to Caltech, M.I.T (I have a niece there right now who won an international Physics project), etc. are smarter. That’s all I said and mentioned I’ve worked with people who went onto FAANG and are still there (and they def. aren’t Caltech material).