Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs
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Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs
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#2(disclaimer: I work at Volkswagen)
Volkswagen also announced that 9,000 new jobs will be opened up with at least 1,000 of them being in the IT department in Wolfsburg alone. I wouldn't call this bad news.
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#3The most surprising thing to me is that Tinder has 200 employees (and plans to double it).
Re: Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs
#4(disclaimer: I work at Volkswagen) Volkswagen also announced that 9,000 new jobs will be opened up with at least 1,000 of them being in the IT department in Wolfsburg alone. I wouldn't call this bad news.
I don't know why the IEEE is always such a downer about employment, but this article is stretching it the furthest I've ever seen. VW layoffs, especially if they come in the form of factory reductions / closures, could hardly be counted as 'tech industry'. Then, the actual layoffs that they tabulated at bottom of article are all significantly less than predicted. I assume it's tied to their anti-H1B lobbying, but it's getting pathetic.
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#5(disclaimer: I work at Volkswagen) Volkswagen also announced that 9,000 new jobs will be opened up with at least 1,000 of them being in the IT department in Wolfsburg alone. I wouldn't call this bad news.
I don't know why the IEEE is always such a downer about employment, but this article is stretching it the furthest I've ever seen. VW layoffs, especially if they come in the form of factory reductions / closures, could hardly be counted as 'tech industry'. Then, the actual layoffs that they tabulated at bottom of article are all significantly less than predicted. I assume it's tied to their anti-H1B lobbying, but it'…
It's not even layoffs. Just making use of "Altersteilzeit" (early part-time retirement) and then not filling the retired jobs.
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#6The most surprising thing to me is that Tinder has 200 employees (and plans to double it).
That sounds perfectly reasonable.
Rules of thumb: If a business has to operate 24/7 worldwide (and maybe even have office in multiple locations), it's gonna need over 100 employees.
There is no sane way around that. You don't want to be in a business with less than that many, trust me ;)
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#7The most surprising thing to me is that Tinder has 200 employees (and plans to double it).
That sounds perfectly reasonable. Rules of thumb: If a business has to operate 24/7 worldwide (and maybe even have office in multiple locations), it's gonna need over 100 employees. There is no sane way around that. You don't want to be in a business with less than that many, trust me ;)
If you need 1 engineer available 24/7, you need 3 teams of 3, one each in APAC, AMER and EMEA, at minimum. You can't sustain running with less, otherwise people can't ever take vacations or get sick... if you need 2 you need at least 12 and so on.
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#8(disclaimer: I work at Volkswagen) Volkswagen also announced that 9,000 new jobs will be opened up with at least 1,000 of them being in the IT department in Wolfsburg alone. I wouldn't call this bad news.
I don't know why the IEEE is always such a downer about employment, but this article is stretching it the furthest I've ever seen. VW layoffs, especially if they come in the form of factory reductions / closures, could hardly be counted as 'tech industry'. Then, the actual layoffs that they tabulated at bottom of article are all significantly less than predicted. I assume it's tied to their anti-H1B lobbying, but it'…
If only for the sake of managing the Overton window, it's good to see some counterpoint to the cries of "There's a terrible shortage of programmers [at the price point we want], we desperately need to increase [H1B quota, bootcamps, etc]!!!" that periodically bubble up from the Big Tech submarines.
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#9The most surprising thing to me is that Tinder has 200 employees (and plans to double it).
Dating apps are full social networks too.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds perfectly reasonable. Rules of thumb: If a business has to operate 24/7 worldwide (and maybe even have office in multiple locations), it's gonna need over 100 employees. There is no sane way around that. You don't want to be in a business with less than that many, trust me ;)
If you need 1 engineer available 24/7, you need 3 teams of 3, one each in APAC, AMER and EMEA, at minimum . You can't sustain running with less, otherwise people can't ever take vacations or get sick... if you need 2 you need at least 12 and so on.
I know it's pushing it, but couldn't one go w/ 1 team of 5 (probably 6 for minimal downtime/buffer?) in NA to cover 24/7?