Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

[Digital Omen]

Take the job and keep looking.

If you don’t have any options what choice do you have

Counter with a higher salary.

You should go back...keep looking...take new job...tell old job fukk em I found something better.

You got to be just as ruthless with these companies as they are with employees.

Make sure they pay you more

Salute to the brehs with dope advice. This is exactly what I did. Just confirmed they want me to start back June 1 and 6 figs same as before with 3% bump (for my pain and suffering I guess) and full bennies.

At the end of the day turned out to be a 2 month staycation and had to Airbnb my spot to make ends meet this month and not dip into my savings.

But now they put the battery on my back to find something better. I'll still keep looking and getting my PMP is my new purpose at work.

I wish success to all the laid off brehs going through it. I can breathe easier now and hope the same for you soon.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Any brehs ever took an offer from a company that laid them off?

On some they want that ol thing back?

I was laid off last month with one months severance. It's been crickets on LinkedIn and Indeed. Couple of interviews but they went with someone else. For now I've been Airbnb hustling my spot and cut out going out.

But just this morning they hit me up asking if I would consider coming back next month. Trying to make it sound like it was some extended vacay shyt.
Of course first thing I asked is well what about 3 months from now, 6 months from now...You're just gonna lay me off again if the math isn't mathing?
"Our projections look great, we were going to advertise the opening soon but figured we would hit you up first since you know the job don't need training etc"

I don't know brehs...

take it and keep looking just in case they want to hit you with the okie doke

 

[Silkk]

Salute to the brehs with dope advice. This is exactly what I did. Just confirmed they want me to start back June 1 and 6 figs same as before with 3% bump (for my pain and suffering I guess) and full bennies.

At the end of the day turned out to be a 2 month staycation and had to Airbnb my spot to make ends meet this month and not dip into my savings.

But now they put the battery on my back to find something better. I'll still keep looking and getting my PMP is my new purpose at work.

I wish success to all the laid off brehs going through it. I can breathe easier now and hope the same for you soon.

Salute, But also while you look for something else keep looking for ways to bring in your own income as well. Maybe keep doing the airbnb thing if possible.

 

[buzzkill]

Getting a few interviews lined up. 1 pays more than my last job

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

salaries for my position have def come down casually applying to stuff (and it's crazy how many applications even no name listings are getting) but the top of the salary bands listed are about 20-40k less than they were just last fall

 

[Butters]

Recruiters like to try to take advantage of people, even when there's still a labor shortage. Got jackasses messaging me trying to get me to leave a full time job for a year long contract.

 

[Atlrocafella]

I work for an Australian company, and our numbers are great. I feel safe…for now. Just need to get to October to collect that $25K bonus

 

[aXiom]

Satya said he ain’t givin raises. He investing in AI.. humans need not apply. This shyt about to get really weird.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

salaries for my position have def come down casually applying to stuff (and it's crazy how many applications even no name listings are getting) but the top of the salary bands listed are about 20-40k less than they were just last fall

Are you a dev?

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

For the folks that's looking for jobs... what helped me was expanding my network. I started talking to people and letting them know that I was looking, and one breh and I hit it off, and when a position opened up at his job, he told me about it and gave me a referral. I'm going to take care of him on the backend (this is TLR so ), cause he didn't have to look out for me like that

 

[Serious]

Stack Overflow Traffic Drops as Coders Opt for ChatGPT Help Instead

Stack Overflow saw a 14% drop in traffic month over month from March to April 2023, according to data analytics firm SimilarWeb.

gizmodo.com

No one is safe

Developer-focused portal Stack Overflow lays off 10% staff | InfoWorld

The job cuts are a result of the company’s renewed focus on profitability due to macroeconomic concerns, according to CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar.

www.infoworld.com

 

[TRUEST]

I work for an Australian company, and our numbers are great. I feel safe…for now. Just need to get to October to collect that $25K bonus

13k after taxes. They call it corporate tax I think. Still though. Hope you get it brethren.

 

[papa pimp]

There's a light at the end of the labor-shortage tunnel, but will it last? Interest-rate hikes are leading firms to rein in hiring, and economists say they expect more balance between worker supply and demand by the year's end. Still, labor shortages are likely to crop up again soon, experts say. That's because the workforce is aging, causing "demographic drag" as older workers retire faster than younger workers can replace them. The U.S. workforce has lost 1.4 million workers due to aging since just before the pandemic, Moody's estimates.

People keep seeing these large lay off numbers but keep wondering how job creation reports keep coming in hot. Demographic cliffs are cancer and pretty much all major economies are shifting. This is a huge reason for the push for robotics and AI before real regulation exist beyond the traditional method of just upping immigration. For example: Germany has a plan to tackle a rapidly aging workforce: recruiting robots

In this market it should not be hard to rebound and find a new job even if it isn't your dream one. All the boomers are dying or retired and the gen z aren't eager to hop in the workforce.

 

[Serious]

People keep seeing these large lay off numbers but keep wondering how job creation reports keep coming in hot. Demographic cliffs are cancer and pretty much all major economies are shifting. This is a huge reason for the push for robotics and AI before real regulation exist beyond the traditional method of just upping immigration. For example: Germany has a plan to tackle a rapidly aging workforce: recruiting robots

In this market it should not be hard to rebound and find a new job even if it isn't your dream one. All the boomers are dying or retired and the gen z aren't eager to hop in the workforce.

Hope you’re right

 

[IIVI]

Ubisoft expanding Assassin's Creed team by 40% over coming years

Ubisoft has detailed plans expand its Assassin's Creed team by 40 percent "over the coming years" as it seeks to focus …

www.eurogamer.net

That's undoubtedly helped spur Ubisoft's decision to lean even more heavily on Assassin's Creed, with the publisher announcing plans to expand the team working on the series by 40% in the coming years. To achieve that target, which will bring the team's headcount up from 2,000 to 2,800, employees will be moved over from other franchises.

Man, I told myself I wouldn't work in the gaming industry again (spent nearly 2 years as full stack) unless I created a game of my own, but this is the first time in awhile I've seen really good news with a number like that.