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Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

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Re: Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

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Post by MisterBastahrd »

schnebbau wrote: post #7
wredue wrote: post #3

“Stack overflow did not elaborate” A year after a major hiring push? Guessing it’s the “save money by ridding ourselves of expertise” workflow: 1) hire a bunch of fresh blood who are willing to work long hours for no money for some reason 2) get them trained up 3) lay off the expensive senior people 4) lol ceo big bonus

If the fresh blood can do the same job as the seniors but for less money then why wouldn't you do this?

Probably because they can until they can't.

You're (a) expecting the new folks to stick around long enough to fully learn the system and (b) that they will have access to all the knowledge around the real tricky parts of the system that they have. A senior dev who has shown he wants to be there is better than 3 new recruits, all day, every day.

Re: Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

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Post by seanthemon »

BobbyJo wrote: post #8
VirusNewbie wrote: post #4

SO has languished so much, it’s really sad. There is a definite need here, and yet they seem happy to provide the same service they did 10 years ago while people migrate to LLMs and copilot and GH search and the like.

Right? They were perfectly positioned to profit from the rise of LLMs, and somehow missed the boat (and continue to do so).

It's the Yahoo boogaloo

Re: Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

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Post by ahi »

schnebbau wrote: post #7
wredue wrote: post #3

“Stack overflow did not elaborate” A year after a major hiring push? Guessing it’s the “save money by ridding ourselves of expertise” workflow: 1) hire a bunch of fresh blood who are willing to work long hours for no money for some reason 2) get them trained up 3) lay off the expensive senior people 4) lol ceo big bonus

If the fresh blood can do the same job as the seniors but for less money then why wouldn't you do this?

Because they can't do the same job as the seniors. An org will crumble if it can't maintain institutional knowledge.

Re: Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

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Post by yieldcrv »

so long, it was an okay to good decade but that’s it. really good at the beginning.

LMs are going to get dated pretty quick if they cant update their models fast enough, completely unknowledgeable of newer frameworks and it becomes more obvious every week in faster moving communities. Really good at the beginning

Re: Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

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Post by hanniabu »

schnebbau wrote: post #7
wredue wrote: post #3

“Stack overflow did not elaborate” A year after a major hiring push? Guessing it’s the “save money by ridding ourselves of expertise” workflow: 1) hire a bunch of fresh blood who are willing to work long hours for no money for some reason 2) get them trained up 3) lay off the expensive senior people 4) lol ceo big bonus

If the fresh blood can do the same job as the seniors but for less money then why wouldn't you do this?

Age discrimination
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