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Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse (www.vice.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse::9,388 engineers polled by Motherboard and Blind said AI will lead to less hiring. Only 6% were confident they'd get another job with the same pay.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I was laid off last year. Got a job after a while and just survived another layoff today. I agree with this assessment.

It’s all post-pandemic stuff. Executives thought growth would continue, and it didn’t. Then they had to take account for their decisions and make others suffer for them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the funny thing. Common sense says things go back to a sense of normal. Executives lack common sense or foresight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Normality. That would be nice. Where the rich and powerful… (checks history books)… use their riches and power to get more riches and power.

In all honesty, yes, things will go back to normal. Layoffs shouldn’t be as common in the future, it’s just still post-pandemic stuff we have to get through. Executives will always be cold, but hopefully they won’t expect massive growth in the future and then not get it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Its not even about the growth, publicly traded companies do layoffs because it makes the stock price go up.

You should be worried when small and midsized comapanies do layoffs that are not publicly traded