Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

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One of the blessings of working in tech for healthcare is that healthcare is one of those industries that will be around for the foreseeable so as long as you know your stuff, you will be able to find opportunities (not saying they will all be good). The curse that comes with it is that it's a costly industry and most times you will be forced to support systems that were created by companies that no longer exists and that only one or two people within the company know how it functions. Not to mention that these same systems are usually used to treat patients which means that they cannot be down for extended periods which adds a level of stress that many cannot handle. There are many more pros and cons but I would have to write a book to go over all of them.

Sounds like we do similar work.

 

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Read a post on Reddit that because a company was bought out/merged so many times and teams replaced, some insane amount of complicated code that holds 2 million peoples’ health records is managed by 1 person in Canada.

Can't tell you the number of times we run into similar situations. Can't replace it because its costs more than the facility generates in a year and can't get rid of it because it has vital data on it. And of course they want us to come up with a way to secure it

 

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Read a post on Reddit that because a company was bought out/merged so many times and teams replaced, some insane amount of complicated code that holds 2 million peoples’ health records is managed by 1 person in Canada.

Man this is just Tuesday for me.

 

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Can't tell you the number of times we run into similar situations. Can't replace it because its costs more than the facility generates in a year and can't get rid of it because it has vital data on it. And of course they want us to come up with a way to secure it

Systems are more fragile than people think.

No one here is surprised, but most don’t realize how many single points of failure exist.

My team of five should probably be 15.

I’m expecting more "CrowdStrike"-like incidents.

2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia

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Systems aren't nearly as robust as people think.

I don't think anyone in this thread is surprised, but I think the general populace doesn't realize how fragile a lot of systems are.

There's a lot of single points of failure.

My direct team of 5, should probably have like 15 people if we're being honest.



In the back of my mind, I'm waiting for more "crowdstrike" like instances to occur.

2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia

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100. Companies are run by people who don't consider what it takes to keep some of these systems functioning and the costs of getting these systems back online if they go down. I don't think we'll see that many more Crowdstrike instances but I expect to see a lot more Change Healthcare instances in the near future.