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