Comment on About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

• spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can vouch, everyone told me growing up that computer jobs were a safe and stable choice because “everyone needs computers.”

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That may be true with IT departments but maybe not as necessarily for developers

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    • joemo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are these actually developers getting laid off? I recall seeing similar posts like this last year and it turns out they just laid off middle management and sales positions, and kept the actual devs

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      • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The Linkedin layoffs today were mostly engineering people, although a chunk of them were middle management. Not sure though if they were operational people (IT running the systems) or devs.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IT support by staff like sysadmins can hardly be replaced in the near future.
      I don’t see AI being able to setup a whole environment itself.

      Creative jobs on the other hand…

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      • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s what cloud services are for.

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      • jmanes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Developers are often the ones setting up the environments now via things like Terraform. IT is still needed for on-prem work though.

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    • spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree, but when most of my “elders” growing up believed computers to be this magical voodoo money printer box that just happens to go on facebook, It’s not suprising they believed any job relating to a computer was safe and stable.

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      • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s true to an extent. It largely depends on what exactly you do with the compiuters. Devs are the easiest to layoff because there are a ton of them and a lot of fresh graduates are programmers. If you’re in a more specialized field in tech, you have pretty good job security.

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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do not question the elders of the internet.

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  • Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s definitely a good choice. And there will always be jobs. But job security is pretty minimal.

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think it’s true for the career rather than the job, because it’s not hard to find another job that is still paid way better than the average career.

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