Don't want to jinx it, but I haven't heard of any Sydney-based startups doing layoffs. I have heard about Sydneysiders from Microsoft, Google and such who were hit by layoffs though.
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#13Don't want to jinx it, but I haven't heard of any Sydney-based startups doing layoffs. I have heard about Sydneysiders from Microsoft, Google and such who were hit by layoffs though.
Also Sydney, also not heard anything. It felt stable enough to take some extended leave to see family overseas and as far as I know business has carried on as usual.
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#14I worked on a very internationally distributed team of ~50 people, and was one of the two US citizens working on the onshore US component of that team (about 14 people). Myself and one other H1B on the US team were the only ones laid off on the larger 50 person team, and the layoff decision was unilaterally made by a director in Singapore. This is at an American semiconductor company that took $40B from the government a few months ago to increase its US presence, for reference.
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#15Japan here. It does not seem to affect much. Companies look based on their performance.
Interestingly, we got more applicants from the US and Canada recently. I heard multiple times that people want a "stable" job over higher comp. Especially young developers. Culture shift?
Some companies actually raised salaries recently because of the cost of living (See the news about Nintendo and others). However the salaries in Japan have been stagnant for years, so this was kind of overdue.
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#16Don't want to jinx it, but I haven't heard of any Sydney-based startups doing layoffs. I have heard about Sydneysiders from Microsoft, Google and such who were hit by layoffs though.
I recently changed jobs in Melbourne (senior frontend developer). I was told by multiple different people that the average market salary has dropped by about 5-10k since this time last year, but I didn't struggle to get interviews and I was able to accept an offer for what was apparently last year's market salary. Some of the larger companies weren't hiring but in general the market seemed pretty steady.
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#17In New Zealand - most layoffs I’ve heard about have been US companies trimming offshore staff. At least one high profile local startup has laid people off though.
Speaking as a hiring manager it’s definitely been easier to find people since around mid 2022
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#18In New Zealand - most layoffs I’ve heard about have been US companies trimming offshore staff. At least one high profile local startup has laid people off though. Speaking as a hiring manager it’s definitely been easier to find people since around mid 2022
It will be interesting to see what happens as a result of the flooding. I imagine New Zealand's economy is going to take an extra hit with that.
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#19My company was affected.
We closed our India office, 1/3 of our global offices.
Late last year, a lot of our engineering team was let go - somewhere between 20 and 30%.
This year, between 20 and 30% of the sales / marketing folks were let go.
In my opinion, these were reasonable decisions that were brought about by poor management. New management is doing a good job, and made the hard, necessary call.
Thus, it's hard to say how much an impact the economy has had. It certainly seems to have been a catalyst, but these internal changes were also a long time coming.
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#20Germany here. I heard that some startups are freezing hiring, especially vc-funded ones (money has become expensive on this side of the pond, too). Recruiter spam also has died down a bit. That being said, the market still seems comparatively healthy and AFAIK there have been no large-scale layoffs.