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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John Furrman said:
Anyone who doesn’t want to return to office should have gotten looked at by a psychologist or psychiatrist, get a diagnosis, request accommodation for their invisible disability from HR, have their doctor fill out the request form, and the ADA forces the employer to let you to work from home indefinitely. If they retaliate or you even suspect retaliation, you can just alert the feds. Make the broken system work for you.
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My previous job was at a large tech company and they wouldn't give exceptions for legitimate health conditions/family leave let alone for muh mentals.
 
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Spasticus Autisticus said:
Yeah, good luck with that, Pajeet. Indian men are only slightly above black men on the dating hierarchy. White women just don't find them attractive. In all my years of working in tech I can think of one single instance of an Indian man-White woman pairing, and she was the kind of woman you'd expect to see with a black guy.
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The one rare moment a white girl hooked up with a jeet, Judd “Kike” Apatow had to produce a movie about it:

 
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Back me up! said:
I now people shit on Agile (with good reason) but having a meeting every meeting asking "What the fuck are you doing" and "What is blocking you from doing your job" helps with the full WFH crew. Pretty easy to find out when some one is bullshitting.
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You shouldn't need a standup meeting to unblock yourself. Ideally your employees should know to get help from who they need, or to ask in a public channel for help.

Standups is an attack vector for inexperienced managers and product to micromanage. If you have standup lasting more than a few minutes, it's likely because someone's micromanaging everyone's progress, or some product person is using standup as their way to figure out what every engineer is doing.
 
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sadrefrigerator said:
You shouldn't need a standup meeting to unblock yourself. Ideally your employees should know to get help from who they need, or to ask in a public channel for help.

Standups is an attack vector for inexperienced managers and product to micromanage. If you have standup lasting more than a few minutes, it's likely because someone's micromanaging everyone's progress, or some product person is using standup as their way to figure out what every engineer is doing.
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Third option is that there is no scrum master to put their foot down and stop standups from turning into tech design meetings. At least on my team that's been the #1 reason for bloated standups.
 
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Pajeet. Indian men are only slightly above black men on the dating hierarchy. White women just don't find them attractive. In all my years of working in tech I can think of o
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Does no one on this forum go outside? Plenty of white women love to burn a bit of coal and have their lives ruined by getting saddled with fuzzy haired chocolate babies.
 
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Spasticus Autisticus said:
Yeah, good luck with that, Pajeet. Indian men are only slightly above black men on the dating hierarchy. White women just don't find them attractive. In all my years of working in tech I can think of one single instance of an Indian man-White woman pairing, and she was the kind of woman you'd expect to see with a black guy.
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Are you sure you don't mean raping hierarchy? White women all over those big black cocks and then stuck as single mothers when daddy either bails or fails to make bail.
 
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'murican techbros... we got too cocky...

Technically he's right, but we know he's not aiming for the cream of the crop. If he went ahead and said, "we will revamp H-1B to only allow the 1% of the 1%", high performance achievers like him, then it'd be a totally different story.
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Those visas are horrendous for pay. They tanked pay in the sciences. Now every American in tech will need to fight against 1000 curry bros with fraudulent CVs.

F in chat, tech bros.
 
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Ahriman said:
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'murican techbros... we got too cocky...

Technically he's right, but we know he's not aiming for the cream of the crop. If he went ahead and said, "we will revamp H-1B to only allow the 1% of the 1%", high performance achievers like him, then it'd be a totally different story.
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Welcome to the first stage of the ruse.

1. Say you want more indians
2. Public backlash <---- you are here
3. Agree to not want more Indians
4. compromise by keeping Indians in India
5. Send all WFH jobs to India.

As has been mentioned in this thread, in the 90s in the UK, all of the UK-based call centres shipped their work to India. They never came back.

Congratulations, WFH-ers, you played yourself.
 
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