In the 2001 dot com crash, unemployment in the software industry in Seattle was probably about 40%.
I got a job offer from Microsoft in North Dakota. I went to Fargo. For 8 years.
The economy will tell you what you must do to eat.
Sorry about your friends, 11th.
Hopefully they’ll bounce back.
As John McClain would say, “Welcome to the party, pal.” Maybe they’ll reassess their support for Rutabaga.
Welcome to the club, boys.
When you work in a boom or bust industry, live every day like it is a bust and you will be prepared when the bus does arrive.
Happening in my circle.
AI/HAL taking over.
Learning to code didn’t help for long, Joe.
Where I am there are retention problems in the IT department. The really good atmosphere and almost family experience died a couple of years ago.
I’m hoping to be the next one to leave. There is stuff open around here and I tend to go through small waves of interviews over the phone.
Earlier this year I’ve taken baby steps to getting some IT certifications. All I have until then was a legacy A+. The couple of MS one I had no one was ever interested in.
I passed a couple of minor ones recently so I have a feel of the test environment now.
Now it’s a question of affording and scheduling a couple of others I have in mind.
Seems Allison Croisant was a mere pan....
According to this many of the struggling H1-B’s are moving back. Byeee.
https://www.reddit.com/r/h1b/comments/17ijsqp/move_back_to_india_layoffexhausted/
I work in IT. I wish for once i could get my Obama 99 weeks of salary or some buyout like it seems everyone else is getting.
Yes, no jobs for Americans, Indian recruiters are focused solely on hiring Indians.
AI will be much better at processing data.
Both of my daughters lost their jobs last summer. They can’t even get interviews. Both of them looking at career changes.
I know a factory that’s hiring. You have to know how to drive a forklift, though.
To paraphrase Eisenhower - “beware of the IT industrial complex”. They are often a cancer on organizations as they seek greater and greater influence over their host corporation. They purposely lower their efficiency through Byzantine safety/security standards and protocols so that the Borg that they are can continue to grow.
The “data scientists” I’ve met are stupid.
One lady who I carpooled with was educated as a Bioethics PhD or equivalent and couldn’t get a job. Amazingly, she looked “incredible” to my employer, and she began her $150,000+ a year job as yet another data scientist.
They literally think they’ve done creditable work when they make the database servers grind away for over 24 hours using scripts they wrote that align random factors that have no plausible relation, against each other. They never have any business value, but they are novel, to be fair. For instance, she would map something like failed employee logins against customer receipts for one of our products. This will, of course, provide nothing of value, but it will show she did something for 24 hours across our server farm from a few minutes of work on her part, letting her claim she’s working overtime awaiting her results to enter another stupid association for another 24 hour run.
Why 24 hours? Because that triggers a routine that automatically terminates the call, and it makes a record that looks like another metric, proving her work and why nothing got spat out as output.
She loves Nate Silver. I told her Nate Silver is an absolute idiot, and I have his book. She was astonished at my position and I said I can prove five separate, successive times Nate Silver was completely wrong. She dared me, in front of the others. I immediately went to a collected video of his claims that the polls, and the country, were at “Peak Trump,” and it was technically impossible for Trump to ever win, because his analysis of the polls effectively guaranteed it.
The problem with that was Trump was now already the president, and she hated Trump, so to combine her biggest stat idol with having flat-out lied, looking completely stupid, sent her over the edge.
We didn’t talk again for a long, long while, in the car.
Musk fired 80% of the workforce or something.
The site is doing 5.3million tweets a day-busier than ever.
It is up from 7th to 5th most visited site in the english speaking world.
The site runs better than ever.
I’m sorry to hear of friends effected but if twitter was employing 400% too many employees-my guess is the rest are as well.
he's in big debt as it was....