Tech Job brehs be losing...smh

[the bossman]

so is coding still relevant like that or nah

I need to know this before I continue my studies

Yes. If you want to go into coding - JavaScript and Python are everywhere. They're not going away .

Just don't have the expectation that you'll work at the same company for the entirety of your career. Dedicate yourself to having the skills, instead of dedicating yourself to a company and you'll always eat.

If you're ever let go you're fine because there will always be tons of other companies who need your skillset

Round yourself out with learning some SQL too

 

[UpNext]

Such a fukked up environment we live in where you have to expect at least once or twice in your career you WILL face a layoff/firing.

It's kinda why if you're in tech/coding you have to be constantly interviewing. Stay ready so you don't have to get ready and take the offer if it's a 20% or more boost. shyt's so draining tho.

 

[Aprogressivone]

Without saying too much about my specific background, getting into the cleared space is one of the best things you can do in tech. For years I would see people on various subreddits dedicated to cs careers/coding/software engineering look down on the consulting, government contracting, and defense jobs. Everyone wants to chase the big tech companies. The thing is the consulting, gov contracting, and defense roles often push you towards cleared opportunities.

You don't have to worry about competing against H-1B workers since you have to be a citizen. Then on top of that you have citizens who can't qualify due to their background or even want to attempt to qualify. Once you get it you can even go to the big tech companies since they all have cleared opportunities and they give you a cleared bonus. Age discrimination really isn't a thing in cleared roles either. I regularly see much older engineers gainfully employed where big tech is a more an "up or out" model. Big tech brings in young people, chew them up, spit them out and only retain the top performers through RIF(reduction in force) or by not hitting a new senior title by a certain period.

 

[Mowgli]

HR are nasty. Try to sound friendly and caring. While reading off a script filled with corporate gobbledygook.

But these remote jobs are looking shaky these days...

Sounds like AI

 

[John Mexico]

so is coding still relevant like that or nah

piggy backing off @the bossman

C++ will never go anywhere. Every piece of hardware, cpu internals, IoT device is using it under the hood. Rust is highly popular and can do what C++ does, but the C family of languages will always be a thing as long as Apple and Microsoft are still alive and breathing.

its the business that is broken. Globalization/exploiting foreign workers, always maximizing profits at the expense of wor/life balance and quality of life. Coding aint never leaving.

 

[Regular Developer]

Damn that sucks. Know she was shaking and filled with anxiety when getting that email

I’ve yet to get fired/laid off but always keep something on backup and contacts I can call just in case. These places don’t give a damn and will drop you like nothing. Don’t care about your bills, how you’ll eat, a roof over your head or your kids

I saw that email at 8:30, when work starts at 9... I knew whatsup and I was wfh that day... Yea I had anxeity. Severance package took care of me tho. #GodIsGood

 

[Versa]

I got my not one, but two certifications in UX/Product Design. First one in 2022 and the other in 2023.

Still haven't been able to break in. Been thinking about letting it go and transitioning to something else. Any advice?

 

[the bossman]

I got my not one, but two certifications in UX/Product Design. First one in 2022 and the other in 2023.

Still haven't been able to break in. Been thinking about letting it go and transitioning to something else. Any advice?

is all you have are the two certs or do you also have a portfolio? UX/Product design seems like one of those industries where it's all about showing your skills through the projects you've worked on in your portfolio. like certs aren't a thing in coding either. they want to see your github or projects you've worked on in the past.

 

[Henny and_ HotWings]

Of course it's relevant.

It's so many different streams and programming languages for so many different uses.

Do you think it’s best to go the python and SQL route??

 

[desjardins]

Layoffs are only an issue if you can't find another job.
People have been getting laid off in tech forever, difference between now and the past is before you always could "fail up" in tech. Almost everybody who got fired/laid off just found a higher paying job because demand for engineers was so high
The one time I got laid off, I chilled for a month then found a job paying $15K more with 1 interview
Those days are gone though, for most of our working lives the market has never been this bad. Engineers interviewing full time for 9 months and not landing a job was almost unheard of

 

[Gloxina]

 

[Trojan 24]

True, I didn’t watch the entire video but I’m not surprised at this revelation considering women in general are usually terrible with finances.

And a 3k mortgage is egregious. I don’t even wanna know the specifics of that loan, it’d probably ruin my day at this point.

Where y'all living? I pay 3.5K for my 1 bedroom apartment, that'll really ruin it

 

[Conan]

Without saying too much about my specific background, getting into the cleared space is one of the best things you can do in tech. For years I would see people on various subreddits dedicated to cs careers/coding/software engineering look down on the consulting, government contracting, and defense jobs. Everyone wants to chase the big tech companies. The thing is the consulting, gov contracting, and defense roles often push you towards cleared opportunities.

You don't have to worry about competing against H-1B workers since you have to be a citizen. Then on top of that you have citizens who can't qualify due to their background or even want to attempt to qualify. Once you get it you can even go to the big tech companies since they all have cleared opportunities and they give you a cleared bonus. Age discrimination really isn't a thing in cleared roles either. I regularly see much older engineers gainfully employed where big tech is a more an "up or out" model. Big tech brings in young people, chew them up, spit them out and only retain the top performers through RIF(reduction in force) or by not hitting a new senior title by a certain period.

There's even a lot of space between Big Tech and the clearance space.

Healthcare. Retail. Utilities. Education. Public sector. There's plenty of space to eat good and not deal with the bullshyt you get in Big Tech.

 

[The Pledge]

I’ll never understand for the life of me why people think it’s worthwhile to be blasting your life and job for the internet. I guess

They think HR for other companies don’t frequent YouTube.

Deliberately give yourself the scarlet letter, stupid mother fukkers.

 

[Givethanks]

Do you think it’s best to go the python and SQL route??

I'm not a programmer, my background is in electronics but I dabble in programming and worked closely with programmers.

I think it really depends on what you and what you wanna do you know. From what I learned (at work, from people and college) python is the best for people starting out especially if you don't have a background in computers I guess.

We started with C, also we dabbled in python, SQL, and PLCs. I'm continuing with C/C++ because that's what I'm familiar with and what the job I want to work in with deals with (SCADA traffic systems) from what I heard.