10% cut of the corporate workforce in 2 months is wild lol
Crazy most of it is programmers (and/or various other white collar jobs) tbh
Amazon cuts 16k jobs
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#92amazon is really doing it's things now, i say to stay cautious
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I wonder how this is also related to the attacks on the H1B visa.
I'm not american, but it seems to me there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B. I'm not sure anyway what is the relationship between the potential difficulty of hiring new folks, and firing current folks in USA to offshore roles, are relates.
The "problem" is that you have to compensate natives better / treatment.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how this is also related to the attacks on the H1B visa.
I'm not american, but it seems to me there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B. I'm not sure anyway what is the relationship between the potential difficulty of hiring new folks, and firing current folks in USA to offshore roles, are relates.
> there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B.
As an interviewer in a big tech company, it seems all candidates I interview are foreigners who often graduated in the US. Either the company discriminates (which I really doubt it does), or there aren't enough qualified Americans for some jobs. And even if there are, the largest pool of candidates, the better.
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"ZIRP-era deadweight" that's 3-4 years ago now
You underestimate how sclerotic large corporations can be. I've seen people do zero work, quite visibly, at fortune 500s and not be fired for over a year.
I don't know your particular examples but likely your assessment is biased.
We always tend to think that others have it easier than us, as we do not have the full picture.
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#96I've been hearing about massive Amazon layoffs for a few years now. How come the company still exists? Are these layoffs followed by hiring at cheaper regions or different parts of the company? From my perspective as an occasional Amazon customer, things are pretty much unchanged.
They hire like crazy. There is unfortunately no shortage of people wanting to work there.
They also hire to fire to meet pip quotas.
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#97Interesting perspective of an L7 who was laid off at Amazon
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how this is also related to the attacks on the H1B visa.
Very related IMO. Even before Trump US workforce was expensive, now limit the influx of new workforce and hiring abroad looks like a logical decision
Imagine that! It's almost like it's coordinated. Surely the US government would never do something like that on purpose.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not american, but it seems to me there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B. I'm not sure anyway what is the relationship between the potential difficulty of hiring new folks, and firing current folks in USA to offshore roles, are relates.
There's not a surplus of American developers that can pass interview loops at top tech employers.
Quality outcomes of top tech employers are still somehow lacklustre despite all that.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not american, but it seems to me there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B. I'm not sure anyway what is the relationship between the potential difficulty of hiring new folks, and firing current folks in USA to offshore roles, are relates.
> there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B. As an interviewer in a big tech company, it seems all candidates I interview are foreigners who often graduated in the US. Either the company discriminates (which I really doubt it does), or there aren't enough qualified Americans for some jobs. And even if there are, the largest pool of candidates, the better.
Better for whom?