I’ve built a versatile resume and I’ve recruited in general functions so that helps as well. It’s getting spooky for sure though since I’m in the affected industry.
Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary
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For now it’s not. Amazon is basically doing a dry run with its lower level warehouse positions going through the AI recruiting function they’ve built. Once they start selling that tech like they do AWS is when my job is really in trouble.
Luckily I can pivot to becoming an HRBP which will never not have a human in place if humans are employed by said company I want to work for.
Yaboysix
That nikka
Yall done talked all these folks into getting these tech jobs ..
Not enough
. Took a 2 week vacation over the holidays and like 3 or 4 days the rest of the year.
Gritsngravy
Superstar
What y’all be doing at these faang companies
Like what is the job title and what is the work typically like
Like what is the job title and what is the work typically like
I loved the work life balance at my old gig, but there was no room for advancement. During Covid, I was dropping my kids off at school, hitting Costco, checkin e-mails and doing work for 2-3 hours, then signing off for the day. I put in my 2 week notice just as they announced RTO.
Tech company, i worked alot more and made alot more, but I also had unlimited PTO which I used. I had to ration out vacation days at old gig. Now, I was Full time remote so I could just go somewhere for a week and bring my laptop with me. Even if I was on vacation, I would check in on urgent stuff and maybe do 1-2 hours of work. When shyt was busy, I was working like 9-5pm, and 7-9pm to support folks on the West coast.
I got used to the tech industry work life and I'm trying to get to the money, so I'm not leaving.
Office buildings need to get converted to lofts and housing and shelters.
Office downtown culture is DONE.
Basically this. I remember the early days seeing the park n ride as a ghost town when there’s usually hundreds of cars taking the bus into downtown Houston. Industry needs to get with the fkn program where labor wants to be at (remote) and stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
Bigger companies are fkn up though and giving smaller companies a total leg up by letting their entire workforce be remote.
IIVI
Superstar
Don't get me wrong, those are a lot of layoffs and each one sucks.
At the same time:
Microsoft still got 200k+ people working for them.
Amazon about 1.5 million employees (although many are warehouse employees).
At the end of the day, a lot of folks still have their jobs and a lot of people are going to be able to find new jobs working in tech.
At the same time:
Microsoft still got 200k+ people working for them.
Amazon about 1.5 million employees (although many are warehouse employees).
At the end of the day, a lot of folks still have their jobs and a lot of people are going to be able to find new jobs working in tech.
JetFueledThoughts
Superstar
28 days last year.
We’ve had 2 rounds of layoffs last summer and earlier this year, I’ve dodged the ax
What makes you say this? I've dealt with TA folks as strategic partner for work and as a candidate, and good recruiters are worth their weight in gold.
In the tech labor market, the candidate experience is half the battle. TA is directly responsible for that
