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Re: Layoffs.fyi

#11

Post by o_m »

throwaway_1928 wrote: post #9
andrelaszlo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And better with improving market conditions! I guess that's not your point though?

Yeah my point is we are going into a recession and it is going to get ugly.

What is ugly? I'm a millennial and this seems to happen every 10 years. Should this be any different?

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#12

Post by throwaway_1928 »

o_m wrote: post #11
throwaway_1928 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah my point is we are going into a recession and it is going to get ugly.

What is ugly? I'm a millennial and this seems to happen every 10 years. Should this be any different?

We only need to go back a couple of years to mid 2020 when every company was laying people off. Layoffs.fyi was tracking multiple new rounds every day. I fear what is coming is going to be that or worse.

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#14

Post by tasuki »

throwaway_1928 wrote: post #9
andrelaszlo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And better with improving market conditions! I guess that's not your point though?

Yeah my point is we are going into a recession and it is going to get ugly.

Good for you that you are so sure. Now you can short some stocks and make easy money. Boy is this not financial advice...

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#15

Post by sofixa »

durnygbur wrote: post #4

As a person actively applying in EU... the market reeks candidate desperation. Salaries remained constant or even decreased in numbers despite over 10% inflation. Zero flexibility on the employer side "need 5 years of SRE experience for SRE position, need 5 years of DevOps experience for DevOps position, etc". WTF is going on. With the perspective of mangling my brain on the "next cool" Angular stack I'll remain work…

EU is pretty big and varied, the markets in Spain, Slovenia and Estonia are probably quite different, let alone per city. I can assure you none of what you said applies to France (at least Paris but many of the jobs i see/saw/interviewed for were fully remote, so I don't see why they wouldn't accept people from other areas of France).

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#17

Post by mathverse »

jeffrallen wrote: post #5
durnygbur wrote: post #4

As a person actively applying in EU... the market reeks candidate desperation. Salaries remained constant or even decreased in numbers despite over 10% inflation. Zero flexibility on the employer side "need 5 years of SRE experience for SRE position, need 5 years of DevOps experience for DevOps position, etc". WTF is going on. With the perspective of mangling my brain on the "next cool" Angular stack I'll remain work…

I just got a job in the EU by watching on my desired commute path for new company signs I hadn't noticed before, then researching them. I found a startup in an industry that interested me, made an effort to network my way into the eyes of the CEO, and then made myself available when he had work available. The whole process took 9 months. The front door of companies is always locked due to the unintended consequences…

9 months is an absolutely stupidly long for an EU position.

The pay is so meh that it is not worth it

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#18

Post by Yoric »

durnygbur wrote: post #4

As a person actively applying in EU... the market reeks candidate desperation. Salaries remained constant or even decreased in numbers despite over 10% inflation. Zero flexibility on the employer side "need 5 years of SRE experience for SRE position, need 5 years of DevOps experience for DevOps position, etc". WTF is going on. With the perspective of mangling my brain on the "next cool" Angular stack I'll remain work…

As someone who changed job last year, I didn't feel that pressure. My anecdotal experience was pretty much the opposite.

I was looking for remote work, could be related?

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#19

Post by throwaway_1928 »

tasuki wrote: post #14
throwaway_1928 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah my point is we are going into a recession and it is going to get ugly.

Good for you that you are so sure. Now you can short some stocks and make easy money. Boy is this not financial advice...

I sure hope I am wrong.
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