Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary
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Any time anyone puts any meeting on my calendar and I'm ready to ride on their whole family, no Diddy.
threattonature
Veteran
I'm actually not mad at that. At my old job I had a VP over me who only managed me and one other person. After that a Director with the same situation. With both of them we had a meeting every two weeks where they'd ask if there were any issues they needed to know about, when I told them no that was the end of the call. Anytime I asked them for actual help they'd just pass me a name.
In my current company I have had two managers. Both times they only have 3-4 people under them. Completely pointless positions.
Batsute
The Lion Choker
Good too many people get promoted due to past performance who are not leaders. My old boss was a director and we were on the services side. The company made a push for sales to focus more on recurring revenue ie subscriptions, which meant less focus on one time services.
In my 1 on 1 with he was telling me all this and when I asked why didn’t anybody add a bonus multiplier or incentive to also push services he literally said this, “Huh that’s a pretty good idea I tend to stay out of the conversations”
You’re the director of our org. You’re supposed to be fighting for us and make sure we’re getting work. He should’ve never been a director just give him a Sr. Title or up his pay a lot of people in those roles due have the skills to bridge that strategic gap.In general there’s too much managerial positions, part of which is cuz of career pathing and how organizations kept talent but ultimately you don’t need so many layers. In my company you start out as an analyst thin senior analyst then manager then associate director then director then group director.
Good too many people get promoted due to past performance who are not leaders. My old boss was a director and we were on the services side. The company made a push for sales to focus more on recurring revenue ie subscriptions, which meant less focus on one time services.
In my 1 on 1 with he was telling me all this and when I asked why didn’t anybody add a bonus multiplier or incentive to also push services he literally said this, “Huh that’s a pretty good idea I tend to stay out of the conversations”
Want a reasonable bump in pay? Have to get a title change. If you're already a Sr. that means a manager role. Tech has a bad habit of giving people managerial roles who do not have the skills. They also don't train them. Everything in tech is reactionary..just no long term thought given. Hate having to hear that despite killing your review, you can't get a meaningful bump because you need to get a title boost. That's what makes goal setting useless.
threattonature
Veteran
I've always said as well that if they have to have so many managers then they need to separate them into staff managers versus strategic managers. They want the same people that are supposed to manage personalities to also make the strategic decisions as well when they are two vastly different skill sets that most people don't possess both of.
Glad I quit my job after they reversed course like this.
Robinhood CEO explains how he got employees back to the office after initially saying the company was 'remote-first'
Robinhood CEO explains how he got employees back to the office after initially saying the company was 'remote-first'
Robinhood told employees in 2022 the company would be "staying primarily remote." A year later, that changed.
www.businessinsider.com
IIVI
Superstar
As mentioned before I’m in my final year of school for Electrical Engineering, basically most of the difficult courses finished. One of my cousins who I chilled with yesterday actually got his BS and MS both in Electrical Engineering.
I showed him this post from yesterday and he just said “It’s not my work, but yeah, I believe it.” and walked off shaking his head:
I showed him this post from yesterday and he just said “It’s not my work, but yeah, I believe it.” and walked off shaking his head:
My cousin works Power Engineering specifically but the opportunity for remote work is absolute shyt.
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Its absolutely brutal took me months to find a new job. But I was determined to make more money.Started a job as a security engineer a year+ ago and was just curious so looked at the job market
Think I'll stick to this for awhile
Not really worth it to spend this kind of bread unless you have money to burn. I would rather spend a company's money than my own every single time.
