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:

https://www.theverge.com/24048636/ebay-layoffs-1000-employees-january-2024

https://arstechnica.com/google/2024/01/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-promises-another-year-of-google-layoffs/

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/24/tech/sap-restructuring-ai-jobs-intl-hnk/index.html

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

https://www.brokentoys.org/ludum-mortuus-est/

All in all, rough seas ahead for the techbros.

 

[AbendCode12]

You all have Karen's in your HR? Lucky. Here its all aged out cholos and jeets. Unless you can flash a gang sign or you're name is Srinivas Prasad Bindu Sanjay Rajesh Priya Sita Slushy, you're not getting past the screening. Every one being forced out here is a white man. I'm assuming some sort of alternative society is being formed somewhere because its a browning sea of despair.

 

[The Hardest R]

Every one being forced out here is a white man

This is the outcome that continues to be pushed. The leading candidates of the HR prescreens for the open positions at my job coincidentally are all DEI candidates or nepo babies. White guys don’t get prescreened or if they do, they’re at the bottom. HR will put in comments like “candidate does not grasp roles and responsibilities” and it’s a white kid who made the deans list every semester but the jeet who misspelled every other word is the leading candidate. Right.

A lot of the “applied to 100 jobs and heard back from two of them” are usually from white guys. DEI staffing targets are still alive and well and most of them have commitments like needing 30% of the company needing to be diverse by 2030. So yeah, no white guys. You have to bypass the HR process as much as possible if you want a shot.

 

[blargenheimer]

HR may be overcompensating more than ever to justify their importance.

Relevant


https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/bolt...causing-problems-fintech-startup-turn-around/

You know that every job listing gets blasted with x0,000 perfectly matched ai generated resumes right? Even before ai, people were sending fake resumes. There's no way a engineering manager has time to screen all of those. Unless you have a better way of doing a recruiter screen, karen from HR is the best you're going to get.

This is all well and good, if they can acknowledge they're application janitors that should be paid minimum wage. Filtering AI, browns/whites, and North Koreans. The moment they start evaluating any sort of technical ability while having zero themselves, they've lost the plot. In that case the HM is better off simply grabbing the first 50 applications and trashing the rest. The ratio of shit to shine would probably be the same and I trust my own or a HM's vibes more than HR's.


People are, on average, average. Every company demanding top talent with the utmost urgency to work on their agile venture AI slop, rather than slow methodological development that any qualified engineer will make it through, is the race to the bottom for everyone involved. Crabs in a bucket. Or monkeys at the bottom of stairs.