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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Ahriman said:
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Techbros, we are now fighting AI with AI. Say hello to AIHawk.

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How it works.

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So all in all, paying GPT as you go for helping you apply to 300+ jobs in just a few hours (as opposed to one by one) sounds pretty slick.

We are so fucking back.

And just like clockwork, the LinkedIn crowd had to chime in.

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Cope, seethe and dilate, HR drones. :story:
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Countdown to Pajeets getting around this AI by just spamming it with infinite resume spam.
 
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Nitro! said:
I hope this makes LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, and all of these trash networking/job search sites a radioactive crater where the pretense of usefulness once was. Bring back job fairs and face-to-face recruiting.
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I am all for this, but those are few and far between. I agree with a previous comment, that social networking is still very relevant and can get you in places that you normally would be rejected, so that's a plus.

But that tool (looks like it came out a month ago) seems pretty damn useful for what it is.

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Oh boy... here we go.
 
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Complete Reprobate said:
Say what you will about the Vietnamese, but those fuckers work. I'm on the blue collar side of things, but every single Viet that I work with is friendly, and very hard working and I have no doubt that this applies to IT as well. Cross your fingers that this will actually start trending up.
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Haven't had an opportunity to work with a Vietnamese resident, so can't say if there's any truth to it, but I honestly don't care if they're hard workers, I just care whether they're culturally capable of taking an L. If I don't have to go on a fucking crusade to get some junior programmer to pipe up and say "I was the last to touch that, maybe I fucked something up" then I will embrace these people with open arms.

I don't give a fuck how hard someone crunches or how many hours they put in, I care how many hours we waste dealing with cultural bullshit that makes them unwilling to ever possibly admit fault, which is incompatible with programming. Everyone fucks up, everyone, and the sooner they find outsourced partners who'll take the L and not waste weeks on the blame game and obfuscating code changes, the better.
 
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How much management and development do you really need? Too many of these services are trying to be too much, too many times over. Its hard enough to make a profit just being used as generic cloud filesharing, its all the harder when you try and glue extra crap and all the associated RnD around it. I'm sure that some people really like live cloud sync, but not to the tune of paying 10x more to cover the overhead of all the associated services.

Lotta companies about to learn why its important to just be good at a single thing, and to make new companies if you wanna do six other things too.
 
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"As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision..."

I love these feel-good, say-nothing announcements. If you were "taking responsibility" you'd be cutting juicy severance checks to every laid off employee. I'd be surprised if these guys walked out with anything more than a coupon code for a free month of Dropbox Premium or whatever it's called.
 
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moocow said:
"As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision..."

I love these feel-good, say-nothing announcements. If you were "taking responsibility" you'd be cutting juicy severance checks to every laid off employee. I'd be surprised if these guys walked out with anything more than a coupon code for a free month of Dropbox Premium or whatever it's called.
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According to their public announcement they're getting minimum 16 weeks severance plus 1 week for each year of tenure.
 
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It's over. The pajeet's reign of terror is over. :story:
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This is why literally every job posting at least tech related has 1000+ applicants less than 24 hours after posting.

The "AI" we are seeing now with chatgpt and the like is going to be absolutely horrific for the tech space. Its going to lobotomize most workers like smartphones have done to the masses.
 
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The "AI" we are seeing now with chatgpt and the like is going to be absolutely horrific for the tech space. Its going to lobotomize most workers like smartphones have done to the masses.
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Which is honestly a good outcome for the sane people in the long run. If half the IT space decides to retard poison themselves to the point that they're as savvy in their field as iPhone users are with computers, the other half is gonna be drowning in job opportunities. I'm not gonna cry for anyone who skips the foundational knowledge to let a chatbot do it for them,.
 
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Jack Dorsey is looking like Jack Murphy with that beard lol. He just needs a little roid bloat and he'd be a dead ringer. He's even got the grey highlights coming in.

Is tidal good anyway? I know null uses it, but I've only ever heard of it from him.
 
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