Comment on It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 months agoBecause the big tech companies are laying off, all the tech companies have decided they too need to layoff people to lower costs, improve profits, report better earnings, etc.
Fast forward to next year when they’re up shit creek because their skeleton crews can’t possibly do All The Things. Executives retire, take huge bonuses; repeat.
Reminds joke from Ekaterina Shulman:
New governor gets elected and old governor says to new one: “In my office there is safe, there are three letters in it. When you can’t hold your position read one letter.”
Letters were:
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
There’s no evidence that the layoffs at these firms are actually tech workers.
macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
What on earth do you mean no evidence? I mean just check layoffs.fyi which specifically tracks this.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m trying to find where on the site where it tracks the type of employees laid off but it doesn’t seem to track that at all?
macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
For companies/employees that choose to share (eg in hopes of getting recruited to a new job) you can even get individuals information from that site. That includes actual job titles.
These companies tend to be very light on administrative roles anyway. So the ratios make sense even if they just laid off 5% of staff in total.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You don’t know what you’re talking about. I personally know multiple devs who were laid off from my company. These companies don’t give a shit about your skills anymore, they’re purely looking at how much money you cost them.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Dev’s are getting laid off, but he actually does have a point that in the case of several of the biggest companies, the hardest hit were middle management, not devs.