Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?

Post by hadlock » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:18 PM UTC

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The most shocking thing to me I’ve observed during my career is how many good technologists lack empathy. I hazard it’s because the same neurological structure that optimizes for what makes a good dev/technologist is also what makes empathy and social skills lacking, very broadly speaking. You can learn/fake it with enough time and practice (I’ve met those who do), it just doesn’t seem to be that common of a hack. ht…

A lot of people discover that they can get respect despite being an asshole if they're skilled enough. You see this pattern of behaviour in all disciplines, but in tech it seems that social skills are less important than elsewhere so those types are attracted to the field, and we've also cultivated a culture that glorifies people who are assholes but are also visionaries - Jobs/Musk/Zuckerberg etc.

Post by pkaye » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:23 PM UTC

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> We then used ChatGPT to clean up and categorize all 2-thousand and more roles into 9 main categories. Finally we did a quick manual comb-through to correct any discrepancy. Yet another example of how times are changing!

ah the GPT combover, the future is here

Post by conanbatt » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:26 PM UTC

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Can you give some examples of companies that are commonly called 'tech' companies that you don't brief develop any tech at all?

Nearshoring companies that hires developers to be assigned to external clients, just acting as brokers.

Post by stcroixx » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:35 PM UTC

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We might be unique, but here's no situation we're using Kafka where someone unfamiliar with it would be able to design and support production level systems to the standards we do after a couple hours. That would result in a time bomb for someone else to clean up later when all the stuff you weren't aware you didn't know becomes a problem. These skills are common, some would say table stakes, so it's not hard finding…

My initial reaction reading this is that you really screwed up somewhere with your infrastructure. A pretty large company needs a Kafka team, a smaller company needs their infrastructure team to have a decent understanding with maybe one person / consultant with deeper knowledge. Kafka for 99% of developers in the company should be "Can I use our internal library to read/write some topic".

Post by kybernetyk » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:41 PM UTC

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> John Deere, an American tractor-maker, has been snapping up fired tech workers to help it make smarter farm machinery. Oh yay. Who wants to work for a company that is actively antagonistic against its own customer base?