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

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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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Basic Blond Boy said:
While interviewing, she dropped a nice detail that Oracle was in deep shit as they were hiring North Korean spies and people listed on the Terrorist Watch List. Oracle had the retarded hiring requirement thanks to these factors as they needed a full background check.
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The North Korean hiring fear is pretty rampant right now, albeit being kept very quiet. I know from off-hand remarks my company has caught several Norks trying to sneak in over the past year and have tightened hiring pipelines to effectively only consider internal hires as part of the response.
 
Tanner Glass said:
They took 3 years to even add a Shopping Cart to the store.
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Started offering free games within 1 year but didn't have a cart in 3 years.
It's like it was made by MBAs not programmers or designers.
Lord of the Large Pants said:
Has Oracle signed up a single new customer in the past 15 years?
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Larry Ellison was briefly the richest man in the world last year. They must be doing something, though that something seems to be paying AI companies to invest in them.
Scale Smerch said:
The North Korean hiring fear is pretty rampant right now
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What makes a NK coder more dangerous than a Chinese one? China is a bigger threat.
 
SIMIΔN said:
What makes a NK coder more dangerous than a Chinese one? China is a bigger threat.
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NK is on the official shit list. Many US companies still have development in China, either they outsource there, have subsidiaries there, or hire chinks. Some companies like Microsoft even let Chinese work on DOD projects.

Scale Smerch said:
The North Korean hiring fear is pretty rampant right now, albeit being kept very quiet. I know from off-hand remarks my company has caught several Norks trying to sneak in over the past year and have tightened hiring pipelines to effectively only consider internal hires as part of the response.
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Better than where I work. We're not even bringing in employees for in-person interviews. For all we know the person who interviewed is some rental who does it for cash, and the person who actually starts is a Nork.
 
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GoPro plans to cut 23% of its workforce, as the company struggles to return to profitability.

The wearable camera maker said Tuesday its board approved a restructuring plan to slash costs, which will entail cutting 145 employees. GoPro’s head count at the end of the first quarter was 631 workers, it said.

The job cuts are slated to happen in the company’s second quarter, and are expected to be complete by the end of this year.

GoPro said it expects a charge of $11.5 million to $15 million related to its restructuring plan, including severance payments and healthcare benefits.

Chief Executive and founder Nicholas Woodman told analysts in March that the company was facing several macroeconomic pressures, including tariff and memory costs, as well as supply constraints.

In early 2025, GoPro said it expected to return to profitability by the end of the fiscal year, but posted a loss of $9.1 million, or 6 cents a share, in its fourth quarter.

The San Mateo, Calif., company has been aiming to reduce operating expenses, as full-year revenue declined in 2025. In its most recently ended fourth quarter, the company said it had cut costs by 26% from the prior year.

To deal with waning growth, GoPro has broadened its hardware and software offerings. It is rolling out AI products, including an image processor. Last fall, Woodman completed a $2 million investment in the company to help fund new products.

GoPro had two rounds of job cuts in 2024, cutting 4% of its workforce in the first quarter of the year and 25% in the third quarter. It had 696 employees at the end of 2024.
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Ahriman said:
Back on topic,

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So what are we thinking? Maybe a year before this and A.I. just collapse businesses and suddenly these developers will be worth a fortune?

We already seem well on the path to A.I. collapse, this vibe code thing just seems to the latest desperate attempt to cling onto cheap to no labor products.
 
>Be a company
>Face rising costs
>Told AI will reduce costs and save company
>Introduces AI
>Goes bankrupt because of AI

Are we sure this isn't a plan to bankrupt companies so that the mega corps can buy businesses on the cheap like post-dotcom bubble?
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
So what are we thinking? Maybe a year before this and A.I. just collapse businesses and suddenly these developers will be worth a fortune?
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There will definitely be a market for skilled devs once the AI gloss wears off and hallucinated coding messes build up. Keyword is skilled: you have to like and be good at debugging and working with brownfield projects to make a niche out of any post-AI fallout. Basically the new flavour of consultancy.
 
Ahriman said:
We definitely are

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Something MIGHT happen.

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Tangentially related to thread, politicians are now being threatened over data centers being built. A Democrat got their house vandalized in Indianapolis and heard gun fire over data centers.

Indianapolis councilman says shots fired at his house and a 'no data centers' note left on his doorstep​

An Indianapolis council member said more than a dozen bullets were fired at his house Monday morning and a handwritten note reading "No Data Centers" was left on his doorstep.

In a statement, Indianapolis City-County Council member Ron Gibson said he and his 8-year-old son were not physically harmed but that they were awakened by the sound of gunfire.


“Just steps from where those bullets struck is our dining room table, where my son had been playing with his Legos the day before. That reality is deeply unsettling. This was not just an attack on my home, but endangered my child and disrupted the safety of our entire neighborhood,” Gibson said.

The FBI and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, whom Gibson thanked in his statement for investigating the incident, referred NBC News to Indianapolis police, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“I understand that public service can bring strong opinions and disagreement, but violence is never the answer, especially when it puts families at risk,” Gibson said in his statement.

Gibson, a Democrat who has served in his position since 2023, represents a district where rezoning for a data center built by developer Metrobloks is set to take place. City leaders last week approved rezoning for the project, a project that Gibson publicly backed.

NBC affiliate WTHR reported that residents filled the hearing room for the vote with posters in opposition, following months of protests and rallies opposing the construction of the center.
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Public backlash based on the cost of electricity/water, potential environmental damage, and job loss is going to heat up over this. I don't see techbros holding out.
 
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Scale Smerch said:
There will definitely be a market for skilled devs once the AI gloss wears off and hallucinated coding messes build up. Keyword is skilled: you have to like and be good at debugging and working with brownfield projects to make a niche out of any post-AI fallout. Basically the new flavour of consultancy.
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I'm unironically preparing for it. I genuinely enjoy debugging (as much as anyone can enjoy programming problems anyway, for the rush at the end) and have experience working in old, often poorly maintained spaces. AI shovelware is still going to be a fucking mess just by virtue of its excess, it loves to half finish something it didn't need to do. In normal brownfield debugging, you can at least assume something was done for a reason, often time crunch or ignorance creates odd fucking code that did have a purpose, and the patchwork maintenance that follows often has a pattern that can be understood. AI code can often replicate the appearance of that, but with purely vestigial, never did anything functions, that are just red fucking herrings.

I'm not sure what I'll hate more, dealing with my current bugbear of 10+ year old code written by a guy with a fetish for turning everything he could get his grubby hands on into bit manipulation, or AI that randomly dots in calls that go nowhere and stores vars that do nothing.
 
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