Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

[chineebai]

Don't know if this is happening more but we have a % we have to hit in terms of offshore hiring, whether that's india, eastern europe, south american, mexico, etc.

 

[Ohene]

how many of yall are considering starting a business with hopes of it being AI powered?

 

[Ohene]

For those in the job market, how long is it taking to hear back from jobs you have applied to. I have made a lot of applications, I haven't heard back yet.

slow around the holidays but heard back from a couple companies i applied to a 4-6 weeks ago and had interviews last week
interviews went well but you know how that go

Got an onsite interview tomorrow, been anxious as hell these last few days. With the job market so tight, final interviews are feeling like life or death situations.

i know exactly how you feel breh
at this point i just take solace in knowing that I am doing the best i can. its out of our hands

 

[JLova]

Don't know if this is happening more but we have a % we have to hit in terms of offshore hiring, whether that's india, eastern europe, south american, mexico, etc.

That’s fukked up.

 

[chineebai]

That’s fukked up.

It's been that way for years though but I suspect with higher interest rates, it will accelerate in order for companies to find profitability, especially public companies. Most of these major companies have global offices and they essentially "onshore" meaning they open offices in these cheap cost centers and use them as offshore, almost taking the offshoring in house versus an offshore specialty company, onshoring the offshoring haha

From where I sit, in terms of quality of work, if it is low level repetitive work which is like 60% of work, the quality is the same on average as US workers. For more high level project base, I find that eastern europe and colombia has really great talent for technical bigger projects that require big picture thinking. For indian offshore, the most successful is when they have a line manager who can communicate in english and understands the bigger picture and can distill it down to the actual workers in india.

 

[MikelArteta]

It's been that way for years though but I suspect with higher interest rates, it will accelerate in order for companies to find profitability, especially public companies. Most of these major companies have global offices and they essentially "onshore" meaning they open offices in these cheap cost centers and use them as offshore, almost taking the offshoring in house versus an offshore specialty company, onshoring the offshoring haha

From where I sit, in terms of quality of work, if it is low level repetitive work which is like 60% of work, the quality is the same on average as US workers. For more high level project base, I find that eastern europe and colombia has really great talent for technical bigger projects that require big picture thinking. For indian offshore, the most successful is when they have a line manager who can communicate in english and understands the bigger picture and can distill it down to the actual workers in india.

Smh at these companies
And smh at these governments

 

[JLova]

It's been that way for years though but I suspect with higher interest rates, it will accelerate in order for companies to find profitability, especially public companies. Most of these major companies have global offices and they essentially "onshore" meaning they open offices in these cheap cost centers and use them as offshore, almost taking the offshoring in house versus an offshore specialty company, onshoring the offshoring haha

From where I sit, in terms of quality of work, if it is low level repetitive work which is like 60% of work, the quality is the same on average as US workers. For more high level project base, I find that eastern europe and colombia has really great talent for technical bigger projects that require big picture thinking. For indian offshore, the most successful is when they have a line manager who can communicate in english and understands the bigger picture and can distill it down to the actual workers in india.

Yea, this is all true, I just didn’t know about the percentages.

Imagine this happening while folk going after black ppl being DEI hires.

Vivek already told them the deal and they’re still coming after black folk. That is pure unbridled hate.

 

[chineebai]

Yea, this is all true, I just didn’t know about the percentages.

Imagine this happening while folk going after black ppl being DEI hires.

Vivek already told them the deal and they’re still coming after black folk. That is pure unbridled hate.

Ultimately more h1b and offshore jobs will mean less jobs domestically which will further exasperate the unfair hiring practices to begin with. Those going after dei are just racist, plain and simple.

 

[JT-Money]

 

[JT-Money]

H-1B visas power the tech industry. But experts say that's not necessarily because of a talent gap.​

H-1B visas power the tech industry. But experts say that's not necessarily because of a talent gap.

Elon Musk claims the U.S. needs a pipeline of foreign employees working on H-1B visas because the country lacks skilled engineers. Here's what the data shows.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Nigerianwonder]

This is nasty work. Should be illegal for companies to slander laid off workers. Half of the time "performance" is based on politics and favoritism. Watch them backfill with a bunch of lower performing folks from india. Why don't they ever fire the execs that hired all these "low performers".

 

[JT-Money]

This is nasty work. Should be illegal for companies to slander laid off workers. Half of the time "performance" is based on politics and favoritism. Watch them backfill with a bunch of lower performing folks from india. Why don't they ever fire the execs that hired all these "low performers".

Also these are companies constantly rigging performance criteria to ensure people fail below thresholds. Everyone across the board is getting lower performance ratings. Because upper management arbitrarily decided the ratings we're too high the previous year. The minute you give me a satisfactory or just meets I start looking elsewhere. I'm not waiting around until you give me a below expectations after rigging the process.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

To be a scammer you need a particular type of intelligence. emotional intelligence. many unscrupulous characters have it. such as pimps, fake preachers etc and they use this knowledge towards the same end goals. identifying, manipulating and exploiting vulnerable people. it doesn't matter how book smart you are, you can make very stupid decisions when you are in a vulnerable state. scammers know how to identify people like this then tap and drain them.

Probably rigged the severance package policies beforehand too to give out less money, the company I worked for did this.

 

[Silkk]

Aight….Where the fucck are these rate cuts


Got a lot of shyt to do and need budgets to open back up

 

[Human Torch]

Got an onsite interview tomorrow, been anxious as hell these last few days. With the job market so tight, final interviews are feeling like life or death situations.

How’d it go?

I’m at a FAANG company, been for a minute but I applied to a company that I would say, better aligns with my interest and had 5 onsite inteviews b2b.

First time in over 5 years. shyt actually went well, just waiting to hear back now.