Layoffs of 2023 - Learn to weld

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I kinda feel bad for people learning STEM nowadays and graduating into a second tech crush. While the majority of the engineers fired are useless idiots, those idiots are still competing with new graduates for a job.

I hope at least those that were fired will be stigmatized as useless and let the new generation get in, but that's unlikely, especially if hiring practices are still nepotistic.
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Currently in said position. Just got out of college and was hoping to be hired by my internship company as they claimed I surpassed all expectations, but they were in a merger, so shit out of luck even though the team wanted me.

I honestly worry about this as offers have been thrown out to me decently regularly, but many of them are shit. It is all recruiters of these 12 week coding programs for those with no experience that then get pimped out to some big corp. All of this is of course 12 an hour, so basically a second internship with a year contract is your reward for schooling, kill me now.

All these companies set up 5 years work experience for entry level. I understand that some of it is probably a tactic for weeding out people, but not all of it is. I am hoping something comes about for me as it is no longer January, but who knows. I hope I am not passed over for dead weight simply because their resume had a do nothing tech job on it for 5 years.
 
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The caveat to tech layoffs right now is a lot of them are in FAANG, trendy companies, or the usual venture capitalism ponzi schemes that are finally coming due. Even then a lot of these layoffs are hitting the dead weight, make-work DEI jobs which contribute nothing but look(ed) good to investors. Outside of whole teams being let go software engineers are relatively safe, with the more prudent companies simply freezing hiring for these roles. Of course that could easily change depending what spring and summer hold, but right now I haven't seen any engineers in my network laid off due to downsizing.

.Basic Blonde Boy said:
Currently in said position. Just got out of college and was hoping to be hired by my internship company as they claimed I surpassed all expectations, but they were in a merger, so shit out of luck even though the team wanted me.

I honestly worry about this as offers have been thrown out to me decently regularly, but many of them are shit. It is all recruiters of these 12 week coding programs for those with no experience that then get pimped out to some big corp. All of this is of course 12 an hour, so basically a second internship with a year contract is your reward for schooling, kill me now.

All these companies set up 5 years work experience for entry level. I understand that some of it is probably a tactic for weeding out people, but not all of it is. I am hoping something comes about for me as it is no longer January, but who knows. I hope I am not passed over for dead weight simply because their resume had a do nothing tech job on it for 5 years.
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Getting in is always the shitty part, but it's not impossible for new grads. You can basically ignore the work experience and really specific technical requirements for junior positions (hell even some intermediate postings), they're all HR nonsense - what's scrutinized are the projects you've worked on (work, school, and/or hobby), the personal coding you've done, and your overall competence. Tailor your resume to the job, embellish your experience as required, make sure you include a customized cover letter (as that's a big sign these days you're actually interested in the company), and don't stop applying until you have accepted a work offer.

You're going to be sending out dozens of resumes to first get through the full-time job door regardless, but as long as you're proactive and apply everywhere remotely related to your field, you'll land something eventually.
 
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Sneed's Feed And Seed said:
I'm a security guard and honestly still don't know how we haven't gotten "automationed out" with all these cameras on buildings (the footage thereof the actual security personnel isn't allowed to peruse, natch)
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Liability. My job is highly automated, a typical shift makes Homer Simpson look like a workaholic, and yet thanks to legal mandates, my ass still gets paid way too much money to sit in a chair and watch the machinery do its thing. If something DOES go wrong, the potential is there for it to go incredibly, horribly wrong, and that's what I'm paid for.

They've had the technology to automate subway trains for decades now, complete central control like a giant train set, and yet they don't. Why? Well, would YOU ride something controlled by some guy miles away whose ass isn't on the line if it crashes?
 
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NoReturn said:
What about the people who graduated with translation degrees right before machine translation became ubiquitous?
It happens.
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The thing is Machine Translation can never replace actual translators for certain languages like Arabic where nobody actually speaks the 'standard' version of it in real life, as for example the Arabic they speak in North Africa is completely unintelligible with the Arabic they speak in Arabia proper, with 'standard arabic' simply being the modernization of Quranic Arabic which is based on the Arabic spoken in Syria 1,500 years ago.

Likewise spoken Chinese is similar, but Chinese has the saving grace that due to Chinese characters, as long as the grammar or atleast sentence structure is the same, the written language is actually universal since it's completely uncoupled from pronunciation, this is why for example, if a Vietnamese person knew Chinese characters which was how Vietnamese was written prior to colonization, he would have no trouble reading chinese as they both have the same sentence structure.

This is however why the Japanese and Koreans, despite being the former having chinese characters intragal to their written language, and the latter still using them in certain contexts for proper nouns and titles, can't read written chinese because the sentence structure and grammar is completely different.
 
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Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/americas-20-biggest-tech-layoffs-since-2020/
 
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Sneed's Feed And Seed said:
> Suing Disney successfully
Sounds like somebody's watched too many Disney movies, they'd absolutely do the legal equivalent of prison rape with a running auger on you.
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Probably true, but also California. Where you can go the forced arbitration route, which Disney has to pay for - on an individual basis. I mean it'd take someone to organize, so it's not going to happen, but if someone did, it'd be a pretty good nut-punch to an already cash-strapped Disney (although really they're big enough that no amount of cash is going to impact them, but it would be an annoyance and cause them to shift around some numbers - probably either get a movie cancelled, or get them to be unable to prop up and pretend some shit-fest was profitable by moving park/merch revenue to the movie column). I'll take my optimism stickers now.
 
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.Basic Blonde Boy said:
I honestly worry about this as offers have been thrown out to me decently regularly, but many of them are shit. It is all recruiters of these 12 week coding programs for those with no experience that then get pimped out to some big corp. All of this is of course 12 an hour, so basically a second internship with a year contract is your reward for schooling, kill me now.
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Scale Smerch said:
You're going to be sending out dozens of resumes to first get through the full-time job door regardless, but as long as you're proactive and apply everywhere remotely related to your field, you'll land something eventually.
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Someone once told me a long time ago, "looking for work is a full-time job". And IMHO it's absolutely true. Last time I was out of work was almost a decade ago, and I was crafting cover letters, tailoring resumes, doing interviews and calling around a full 8 hours a day until I got hired. It sucked ass, but sometimes the world is sink or swim.

Get employed in medical or critical infrastructure backend IT and development if you want stability. It's not the horseshit sky high pay and foot massages at your desk of FAANG and gay VC money sink startups, but you'll rarely find your employment rug pulled.
 
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Meat Target said:
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson is laying off 8,500 employees worldwide.
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That's a shame; my first cell phone came from them.
I'll bet if I plug it in the motherfucker would still play Snake for me. I think it was made in the same factory all those Nokias were.
 
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