lol breh why are you dikk eating? There are people who were in roles pre Covid getting laid off. nikkas in this very thread who have been laid off. And all you do is Spam stories about wanting to bring your homie who is enjoying life with his 8th grade education back to a miserable life of trading your life for golden handcuffs?
fukk nikkas are weird as fukk.
I think the overall point is being misunderstood.
I'm not being insensitive to what others are experiencing. It's more an attempt to add context for those who want it. It's really easy to get caught up in a negative, doom-and-gloom loop. The algorithm is programmed to feed it to you. It's all around.
Are there reasons to hedge? Of course. Be prepared for a downturn? Absolutely. But my overall point is if you're serious about what you do, there continue to be plenty of opportunities in the space. Companies, the largest and most profitable among them, are dying to locate and hire talented and skilled engineers.
Including stories about my homie, who
is a black dude with an 8th grade education, who
is always fukking around opportunities a lot of people would consider "great" (but is overall serious about his work), is simply one way of illustrating the point.
The thread was created in November 2022.
Nobody is saying people aren't finding jobs. But more people are losing jobs than finding one.
AI Overview
Based on data from tracking sites like Layoffs.fyi and industry reports.
Total job cuts: Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
500K-600K
That's fair, but again, context is needed.
We expect post-COVID correction in tech hiring trends, considering how much everything scaled during COVID. But even with said correction, the numbers are still up over a seven year period. Many of these roles, especially non-engineering roles, are simply no longer needed.
That dilettantes, or humanities majors, or people without hard skills, are having a harder time getting interviews at hardcore tech firms is sort of not interesting to me.
Outsourcing and AI paranoia are worth discussing. But balance and context is more important than ever.
www.cnbc.com
This market is absolute hell brehs. I don't think id have even gotten the interview if my old manager wasn't a senior director at the company and give me a referral.
www.networkworld.com
techcrunch.com
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