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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sadrefrigerator said:
This is mainly because Amazon have a very open secret of required ura (unregrettable attrition). This managers are required to fire 5% of employees a year. This leads to situation like hire to fire, where an employee is hired and put on pip within 4 months. If the managers don't play along, they are the ones that get pipped. To survive at Amazon you have to be a sociopath. Everything is strictly political and the weak will be backstabbed and pushed out.
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I (am forced) to do coaching and I tell every kid to avoid Amazon at all costs. Luckily they fired most of the pajeet scammers they had running around doing recruiting for them, but I strongly suspect they will go right back to the re-hire waves after all this firing that they've done, because nobody is around to unify these acquisitions.

It used to be from the 80s/90s/00s that having a big tech name on your resume would make you a superstar—every employer would want to talk to you, because the name means you passed the rigor and did project work at "a real shop".

It's the 2020s now and absolutely nobody gives a shit. Every giant tech name has a top ring of pajeets and a listless staff underneath, and everyone is a demotivated Indian at the bottom. It's more impressive if you were working on greenfield projects at a medium size company or startup, where you did both the design and the codemonkey shit. That work is volatile, but if you survived it that counts more than having MSFT stamped on the CV.
 
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Ahriman said:
Having said that, I've read that some government jobs do NOT have any kind of amenities at their offices... not even discounts with the local nearby coffee shops/pubs. It fucking sucks.
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I technically have a (local) govt job, its just part time though for extra cash...though I am behind a computer I wouldnt exactly call it IT. There is no break room, no real breaks, no microwave, no fridge, etc. Really suprised me. But I dont want to complain too hard because I am allowed to sit and eat behind the desk, quite often get to leave early but still get paid for a full shift, and have quite a bit of down time where I am allowed and even encouraged to work on my own projects be it watching YouTube or doing something actually worthwhile like online classes. All in all I really like the job, but there is zero amenities aside from the one armed broken chair I get to sit in, lmao. Just suprised me. Not even a space to keep my things like a locker or something.
 
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Catboy Ranch said:
I (am forced) to do coaching and I tell every kid to avoid Amazon at all costs. Luckily they fired most of the pajeet scammers they had running around doing recruiting for them, but I strongly suspect they will go right back to the re-hire waves after all this firing that they've done, because nobody is around to unify these acquisitions.
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I fell for this slightly when I was younger. I was looking for a new job and I applied to a developer position at Southwest Airlines. Doing so through Indeed. However I actually applied to a third party that was scalping the positions Southwest and most likely other companies were posting then presenting them as such but under the hood you were applying to their third party staffing agency.

This was a 100% pajeet staffing agency and those motherfuckers proceeded to call me I shit you not 10 times a day. Asking for updates and telling me supposed next steps. Over and over and over again. I eventually just told them to STOP FUCKING CALLING ME. I made sure that I got the interview then just didn't show up to spite them.
 
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The talent isn’t making a fuss about doing the most basic thing that’s expected of an employee, it’s the people who think they’re great at their job but are actually dead wood who are.

Fellow wage cucks, not only do not complain about returning to the office but ask if they need you in more. Well done, you’ve now just put yourself ahead of the rest of your team who are crying about getting dressed and coming into work twice a week.

I’m watching people incinerate their careers being pissy about returning to work. Bad times are about to hit a lot of sectors and those pains in the arse will be the first to go no matter how good they are.
 
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I can understand the sentiment but it's extremely hard for me to even consider giving up the extra 3-4 hours a day I get from not commuting. I'm able to do stuff with my kids right after school and generally be a lot more flexible in work life balance. Instead of literally wasting that much of my day sitting in my fucking car.

I go into the office sometimes, but I have the freedom to go in at 10AM and leave at 3PM when traffic is decent.
 
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I can tell you that senior executives and c-suites are going to continue pressing RTO. They now have “permission” since much of the big tech companies are pushing for it. To hear them talk, that period of 2020-2022 when workers had a little bit of leverage was considered extremely traumatic for them. They’ve been used to having all the leverage instead of 95% of the leverage. They’re going to be doing whatever they can these next few years to claw back everything they conceded during those couple years and then some. Kind of sucks for the people who moved to somewhere cheaper but hybrid and remote options will be back to pre-pandemic levels in a couple years.
 
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Guys, there’s a reason RTO is happening. You think you can treat professionals like adults but most act like toddlers at a nursery.

If we could get rid of all offices except for a couple of meeting rooms we would. It would immediately boost profits to insane levels once the leases run out.

The sad fact is people do fuck all and skive all day whilst thinking they’re amazing.

Reject modernity, return to office.
 
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The Hardest R said:
I can tell you that senior executives and c-suites are going to continue pressing RTO. They now have “permission” since much of the big tech companies are pushing for it. To hear them talk, that period of 2020-2022 when workers had a little bit of leverage was considered extremely traumatic for them. They’ve been used to having all the leverage instead of 95% of the leverage. They’re going to be doing whatever they can these next few years to claw back everything they conceded during those couple years and then some. Kind of sucks for the people who moved to somewhere cheaper but hybrid and remote options will be back to pre-pandemic levels in a couple years.
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They have no choice here. Any company of a sufficient size that is locked into decade or longer leases on office property or even worse owns it outright is now sitting on a toxic asset.

As long as remote remains the king the demand and price of the office space is in the shitter and they can't do anything about it. But if they drum up enough RTO across industries over the next few years maybe they can exit a really shitty position.

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If we could get rid of all offices except for a couple of meeting rooms we would. It would immediately boost profits to insane levels once the leases run out.
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While commendable we are decades behind that still. Many jobs still do require physical presence and you have centuries of office space, zoning law, city development, and so on all supporting this concept. It's a long road and wont be resolved really in our lifetime most likely.
 
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FedPostalService said:
The talent isn’t making a fuss about doing the most basic thing that’s expected of an employee, it’s the people who think they’re great at their job but are actually dead wood who are.

Fellow wage cucks, not only do not complain about returning to the office but ask if they need you in more. Well done, you’ve now just put yourself ahead of the rest of your team who are crying about getting dressed and coming into work twice a week.

I’m watching people incinerate their careers being pissy about returning to work. Bad times are about to hit a lot of sectors and those pains in the arse will be the first to go no matter how good they are.
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When a company doesn't want to blow their wad on rent and there's nowhere near enough space to build out the cube pens to hold all those hogs, then you'll keep your remote work.

But companies that care about impressing visitors to a lobby with flowers? Asses in seats.

Tech firms that hinge on PR tend to be the ones who care about their lobbies. Other tech firms that do shit like making sure an oil rig doesn't blow up, and no one visits them because everyone in the industry already knows the company? Latter type.


So if you don't like asses in seat work you need to know the company better before you say yes.
 
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FedPostalService said:
Guys, there’s a reason RTO is happening. You think you can treat professionals like adults but most act like toddlers at a nursery.

If we could get rid of all offices except for a couple of meeting rooms we would. It would immediately boost profits to insane levels once the leases run out.

The sad fact is people do fuck all and skive all day whilst thinking they’re amazing.

Reject modernity, return to office.
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And those refusing to RTO didn't live through the 90s where every call-centre job was shipped to India.

These lazy fucks want to demand that they can do their job at home, without coming in to work? Don't be shocked when Patel does it for a 1/10th of the cost of your wage.

And, those who do a job of work; those who build, manufacturer and assemble, don't have the choice of WFH, even though I am not one of them, the whining by the lazy laptop class is astonishingly privileged (hehe)
 
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Almost every office I worked in was a big open bullshit hell floor with bad lighting, desks set up for short people, shit monitors, too much noise, bad peripherals, and yacking morons. A home office is quiet, has a door to fucking close, a desk that I sit up instead of bend down to use, and isn't full of yacking idiots or the smell of curry and burned popcorn.

I'm not against offices per se but open concept shit where it's noisy distracting stinky and stupid can go straight to hell.
 
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