Silver Surfer
Veteran
A director offered me a job in advertising tech as an engineering Sr Manager.
What do you think of the field?
Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary
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What do you think of the field?
That would actually be a good job for an engineer. There's a lot of technical stuff going on in the backend with ads that would probably be rewarding. I'm a UX researcher, so my job is to talk to people about ads to try and figure out how to make them click on them more. People don't like ads, so it's a difficult job. shyt, I don't like ads either; very few people do. Having to do 1 hour conversations with users about ads is difficult. As an engineer you wouldn't have to deal with any of that. Plus as a EM, you would be more into mentoring and helping the other engineers.
It's very performance based as well, which some people like.
Lowkey explains why tech hasn’t felt revolutionary in so long. Things seem stagnant.
They probably all work remote10k
This is getting scary that’s a whole building
They should just sell it to the military for training and let the consumer uses fall where they may.
No one is asking for this.
Zuck is under the impression that it’s the next computing platform, at least according to his interviews. PCs to Smartphones to augmented reality/metaverse. The thing is nobody wants to wear a headset for multiple hours a day to do their work. If they can somehow place it all in a pair of normal sized glasses, then maybe. But shyt like the Quest Pro is not it. Plus, Apple could do it better. It’s a big risk
Dreamchaser
All Star
My friend is one of the 10k. Things went bad quick at the company.10k
This is getting scary that’s a whole building
Couldn’t be worse than Twitter them mofo ain’t even have toilet paper
kt773
Superstar
Hey y’all I’m getting out of teaching , tired of teaching kids in Chicago lbvs, looking to go into tech, I’m 37 and I have no experience, but definitely interested in going back to school, or go for some certifications, any advice coli fam? Is this a good field to go in? Let me know
Batsute
The Lion Choker
E learning & curriculum Dev would probably be your best way in. Stay with the company long enough and you can pivot business ops.
You trying to code breh and go into tech tech?
kt773
Superstar
Yes, definitely want to learn how to code , I want to want to start a non profit and teach inner city kids how to code and the benefits of tech jobs , and to also work lol
Not even gonna lie bro, this is about the worst time you could possibly be in to get into the field. Competition is at it's apex. If you're not trying to drop the bread to get into a high end boot camp like this Accredited Online Computer Programming & Coding School - Turing School it's gonna be hell getting in.
It's a great field to go into, because nearly every industry needs tech talent.
Figure out what your strengths are, and how close you want to be to the technical details.
And finally you just got to get your foot in the door somewhere and build experience.
Don't chase trends. Tech stacks come and go. It's all about solving problems and bringing value. Master those and you'll be fine.
the bossman
Superstar
Then you won. And if you find a new gig before the layoff date then you basically pocketed a fat 5-6 figure check
Batsute
The Lion Choker
Salute breh,
From what I’ve seen it’s harder for older brehs to get entry - mid level jobs and like @Chillin said competition is high. They don’t fukk around with those code tests.
I’d look at non coding roles and try to have the company train you up. From what I’ve seen there’s a lot of opportunity to code in these elearning systems. Leverage ya old degree to get where you wanna be.
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