Business Big Tech Layoffs Megathread - Techbros... we got too cocky...

Since my previous thread kinda-sorta turned into a soft megathread, and the tech layoffs will continue until morale improves, I think it's better to group them all together.

For those who want a QRD:


Just this week we've had these going on:

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But it's not just Big Tech, the vidya industry is also cleaning house bigly:

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All in all, rough seas ahead for the techbros.
 
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SIMIΔN said:
I think there are plenty of smart Indians, but the current situation incentivises them to put their effort towards looking impressive instead of being impressive.
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Sure, but if your actually smart and merely choose to act retarded, I'm still going to call you retarded. If these capable pajeets are overreaching and trying to do things they absolutely cannot do in an effort to show off, rather than succeeding within their capabilities, that still makes them stupid because I need people who work, not flaunt.

moocow said:
I love how these imbeciles have the fucking balls to bitch about capitalism as they retain (for now) their six-figure jobs. If only they knew how worthless they'd be in the eyes of communism or socialism and how fast they'd be sent to the factories (or the gulags).
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Nah, the factories would be a mercy. These people could not survive the rigors of communist software development, where you have no detailed requirements, no BA's, and your forced to work on extremely important integrated hardware programming. You want to make cute UI for a mobile app? Nope, you're doing SoC programming in low level C for a steel press, the original code is undocumented, you have one week to get it to stop smashing peoples hands before we decide that hands are acceptable casualties to keep production levels up. Hope you like hitting random registers to see what they change.
 
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Awww, how very sad. Obviously protests are protected, but I don't think they're protected if you're doing them during your work day and on company property.

Oh, look, the NLRB says the same thing:
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a “sitdown” strike, when employees simply stay in the plant and refuse to work is not protected by the law.
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Also, this one:
Furthermore, Section 8(b)(4) of the Act prohibits strikes for certain objects even though the objects are not necessarily unlawful if achieved by other means. An example of this would be a strike to compel Employer A to cease doing business with Employer B. It is not unlawful for Employer A voluntarily to stop doing business with Employer B, nor is it unlawful for a union merely to request that it do so. It is, however, unlawful for the union to strike with an object of forcing the employer to do so. These points will be covered in more detail in the explanation of Section 8(b)(4). In any event, employees who participate in an unlawful strike may be discharged and are not entitled to reinstatement.
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Obviously talks about unions, but I'm guessing the law would be the same.
 
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anklyscr said:
1.5 hour commute?

Also he’s checking his bloody emails while in control of his car. Jesus wept.
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Netizennameless said:
With autopilot on, the car is in control. It's still pretty reckless to train yourself to drive distracted like that.
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And he ends his story of hazardous driving practices to commute to his former employer with a quote from capeshit.
 
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Fun story I heard communing with an ex-co worker:
apparently Meta has entirely written off its Seattle office and is consolidating to the Bay Area now. Unfortunately, they also purged HR in the midst of this contraction, and now nobody knows how to operate the dogfood frankenstein monster they built in-house (it's a Ruby on Rails app, pretend to be shocked) to process job applications and are auto-denying everything coming in.
 
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Ahriman said:
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Big oof.

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Dear God..... If Take 2 is feeling the pinch with the GTA online Money printers still running...

Watch this video, about Devin. This guy does a great analysis on breaking down the demo video that they had put out.


As always, PMs don't know what the fuck they're talking about, and AI really isn't gonna "take our jeerbs" any time soon, and certainly not some meme "AI software dev" like Devin.
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Agreed. AI is sounding a lot like self driving cars, and drones before that

Diana Moon Glampers said:
It's pretty funny to watch all the childfree gamers wonder why, in a country with below-replacement-rate births, gaming companies are struggling instead of growing. It's literally the simplest thing in the world to predict.

Toy companies are in the same boat.
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Toys R Us literally advocated for abortion....

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Silver lining, texasbros.
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Agreed. Cali fags FUCK OFF

quaawaa said:
That article is just whining from a wannabe Californian about the evil Republicans. The author completely ignored the massive layoffs done by Californian companies and the decline in VC investment in the Bay Area. Oracle, the company featured in the article, is “moving” to Tennessee, which is a redder state, so it’s not like they care about abortion or Prop 13.
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Yep. Cali types are seething that Austin is getting billions upon billions of VC cash while the Bay area gets simultaneously more expensive and shittier to live in

moocow said:
I love how these imbeciles have the fucking balls to bitch about capitalism as they retain (for now) their six-figure jobs. If only they knew how worthless they'd be in the eyes of communism or socialism and how fast they'd be sent to the factories (or the gulags).
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Yep, no more tranny fellatio at work if they even get a job.

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Fucking lol, especially the Goober with the 1.5 HOUR commute One Way. Dude don't fucking go that far for a fucking company that'll can your ass via text message.

Absolutego said:
Fun story I heard communing with an ex-co worker:
apparently Meta has entirely written off its Seattle office and is consolidating to the Bay Area now. Unfortunately, they also purged HR in the midst of this contraction, and now nobody knows how to operate the dogfood frankenstein monster they built in-house (it's a Ruby on Rails app, pretend to be shocked) to process job applications and are auto-denying everything coming in.
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Fucking LOL. There were some people at grad school that I came up with that were lording over everyone because they got a job at Google, Amazon, Meta, Netflix, Tesla.

A VERY high % lost there jobs in the last year or so and a decent % got deported because they lost their visa.

Then they work from India and get a literal 80% salary cut lol 😆
 
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Falcos_Commisar said:
Fucking LOL. There were some people at grad school that I came up with that were lording over everyone because they got a job at Google, Amazon, Meta, Netflix, Tesla.

A VERY high % lost there jobs in the last year or so and a decent % got deported because they lost their visa.

Then they work from India and get a literal 80% salary cut lol 😆
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See their mistake was being unwilling to work at 2/3rds of the market rate, going by the contract gigs I'm getting offered that's how tech companies justify importing a shitton of H1-Bs.
It's comical at points. You will be swarmed by Indian recruiters and be able to finish their script for them in a week after setting your LinkedIn to "Open to Work". I had like a dozen of them messaging me, all claiming to live in New Jersey (they didn't) shilling the same contract b/c some hospital was apparently in dire need of more Indians to plug in their WAPs and image a doctor's laptop once in a while.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
None of this work benefits from knowing how to make a bloated webpage, run unreal engine, or spend three weeks workshopping a button as a Business Analysist with 35 key stakeholders.
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Thanks for the flashbacks. Last company I was at had a project around what I would think wasn't too complicated of a web page- basically bringing the product catalog onto a modern web site alongside some articles and other stuff. The main team had about 15 people (two coders) and then there was the external agency that was also used to build out the site with at least half a dozen people there helping. Daily stand ups, 35 stakeholders meeting for a button and what it should say, the works. Could never get the basic features of the site everybody wanted the most working though.

I had never worked in a larger company so I just thought it was normal, even though it seemed really crazy how many people were working on a site that did not seem like it should be that complicated. Of course there was feature creep and executives over promising stuff that wasn't actually important. Eventually the team got hit with layoffs and the company almost immediately scrapped most of the work.
 
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moocow said:
But that's an unsafe language! *GASP* You can't guarantee memory safety in C! What do you mean the Rust runtime can't fit in a 64k flash chip? WTF is this garbage?!?! I need my borrow checker!!!
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You probably can. Rust isn't garbage collected. Its memory is managed with reference counting and it's statically compiled. Depending on what you're willing to trim out, you can shrink it down pretty far.

Rust's situation is a shame. I haven't done anything with it myself, but from what I've read, I hear good things about how it brought genuine modern language advantages without just churning out yet another GC'd, dynamically checked programming language. And it's such a shame that its community is clogged with cringy troons.
 
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Enjoy. They happily donated to Planned Parenthood (aka Abortions R Us) for a long time
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Hyper-ultra-mega-kek. They actually donated to an entity indirectly responsible for reducing their potential client base.

I mean I get it that PP's most common demographic is black and that demographic is more likely to steal toys than buy them, but still ... there had to be some white kids caught in that net too.

Talk about a self-own. JFC.
 
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Ahriman said:
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...yea I'm thinking that we're seeing the beginning of the end of Silicon Valley and all its hyper-inflated bullshit as we know it.

The common denominator has been moving jobs elsewhere, that is, somewhere cheaper than Commiefornia.
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I’ll be laughing when Trump wins the election, forces these companies to hire US staff, and the rehired staff call him a fascist and keep voting the party that will outsource their jobs again.
 
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