Business Big Tech Layoffs Megathread - Techbros... we got too cocky...

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Since my previous thread kinda-sorta turned into a soft megathread, and the tech layoffs will continue until morale improves, I think it's better to group them all together.

For those who want a QRD:


Just this week we've had these going on:

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But it's not just Big Tech, the vidya industry is also cleaning house bigly:

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All in all, rough seas ahead for the techbros.
 
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The flip side is that engineers who are willing to work in the less glamorous side of engineering have no problems finding jobs. All the manufacturing plants by me are hiring engineers, but no one wants to get dirty on a production floor.
 
Peaches the Wonder Cat said:
"foreign experience" = Indian.
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Beat me to it, jeet for sure. The bigger Jeet farms like TCS are seemingly getting pummeled in Canada right now - They're not losing contracts, but only because they're taking extremely unfavorable deals to retain clients, and seem to be taking a lot of deals at a loss just to keep market share. Seems they treated most of their canadian contracts as dumping grounds for fresh trainees and problem devs identified in much more valuable US clients. While a small percentage of this is almost expected, especially when you're a relatively lower revenue client, they were completely taking the piss with it and people got tired of hiring the dregs.

I cannot overstate how tainted the overseas companies are in the Canadian market right now, I don't know anyone who isn't a jeet who's happy with any interactions they've had in the last year.

Source: My company just had its TCS contract renewed at apocalyptic rates, because we were trying to walk. Everyone knows its stupid because they'll shit the bed even harder later when they try to claw back to profit later, but its just too tempting to take the opportunity to free up the cashflow right now.
 
Trying not to PL but a project in work is on fire as the consultant brought in to manage it use Jeets.

I think I’m being kept away from it so I’m not getting formal complaints made about me when I explode at the incompetence.

I have no fucking idea why we just didn’t do this in house but apparently burning hundreds of thousands of pounds in consulting fees is somewhat better than just assigning one or two members of staff to look at a thing.
 
FedPostalService said:
I have no fucking idea why we just didn’t do this in house but apparently burning hundreds of thousands of pounds in consulting fees is somewhat better than just assigning one or two members of staff to look at a thing.
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Its usually capex vs opex bullshit. Investors hate hearing you're spending $XXX on staff, because staff are a consistent and recurring expense, but consultants are one-off purchases that can be slipped under capital expenses as a result, so it looks like the company is investing in its future. High Capex low Opex makes it look like the company is growing heavily and can easily crank the profit dial or handle unexpected expenses by dialing back on growth. Its the same reason you'll see dumb shit like running platforms as yearly 'projects' with all the associated corporate overhead, rather than just sticking a couple hands in as a general sustainment and enhancement team.
 
Lapsus of the bepsus said:
i love how mad that nigger is. stay gay webshits. i bet his $300/mo service doesnt even include hosting
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Or any feature queue priority. I'm sure he fed back a lot of "We'll add it to the list" and "That's not in our roadmap/vision" for things the company wanted that they'd functionally never get around to. I'm sure internally, the option was between $300 a month for a platform that was costing them 20k+/month in projected productivity losses working around its shortcomings, vs 8k/month for a dedicated developer to build exactly what you wanted, and consistently expand on it.

Turnkey solutions always sound great until you actually need something business specific, and realize the entire operation of your own internal departments will be dictated by some unrelated 3rd party you can't control.
 
Kuritan Deplorable said:
Or any feature queue priority. I'm sure he fed back a lot of "We'll add it to the list" and "That's not in our roadmap/vision" for things the company wanted that they'd functionally never get around to. I'm sure internally, the option was between $300 a month for a platform that was costing them 20k+/month in projected productivity losses working around its shortcomings, vs 8k/month for a dedicated developer to build exactly what you wanted, and consistently expand on it.

Turnkey solutions always sound great until you actually need something business specific, and realize the entire operation of your own internal departments will be dictated by some unrelated 3rd party you can't control.
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Companies are also tired of integration risk. Cloudflare or AWS or any SaaS goes down and they go down too.
 
So they hired a bunch of useless fucks during the diversity years, and now are so incapable of measuring good work they have to overcorrect and make all employees lives miserable through draconian surveillance.
 
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FedPostalService said:
If you’re complaining about going to work you should be fired.
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That Amazon post has nothing to do with work. You can be a lazy slob and sit near your team for 8 hours a day.

It has nothing to do with employees working. Some of them got promoted while working from home, or have been remote for years. Amazon and other companies doing stupid RTO stunts like this know it, but they also know they're expensive employees who can be replaced by pajeets, and if the employees quit then Sukhdeep will live in a house with 35 other smelly pajeets while doing a shit job until the company goes bust.
 
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