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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World Famous Quasi Payer said:
How do you fuck up a creed game? We have a hundred creed games, and they've all printed money, yet somehow ubisoft can't but keep fucking up.
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Turns out that when you swap out being a kickass assassin for an ahistorical we wuz samurai and fail to innovate on gameplay even after competitors have surpassed you, its pretty easy
 
That is such an odd stance that only accepts the top 1%, but they must be ethnic. The thing is tech bros, if you did not hire so many jeets to the point you had to hire non-jeets to cover up the work the jeets had done, we would not have gotten here.

The thing is even the top of their castes are still as thick as shit.
 
Ahriman said:
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So he says. :story:
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This makes no sense. Almost every industry has a proper, industrially recognised way of doing things that works, and has proven to be the best way, and proven to work, for decades, if not a century.

Having a paki, an indian, a nignog and a brazillian telling each other how to put a nut on a bolt makes no fucking difference, when it can only go on one way.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
This makes no sense. Almost every industry has a proper, industrially recognised way of doing things that works, and has proven to be the best way, and proven to work, for decades, if not a century.

Having a paki, an indian, a nignog and a brazillian telling each other how to put a nut on a bolt makes no fucking difference, when it can only go on one way.
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Tech is not one of those industries :lol::lol::lol:
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
This makes no sense. Almost every industry has a proper, industrially recognised way of doing things that works, and has proven to be the best way, and proven to work, for decades, if not a century.

Having a paki, an indian, a nignog and a brazillian telling each other how to put a nut on a bolt makes no fucking difference, when it can only go on one way.
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There are so many edge cases in software engineering and devops that you need a higher-than-room-temperature IQ to do it so it's not some low iq, blue collar job, despite the sour grapes from them. Most of the jeets from these offshore companies don't understand the things theyre copy-pasting which creates bigger messes.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
This makes no sense. Almost every industry has a proper, industrially recognised way of doing things that works, and has proven to be the best way, and proven to work, for decades, if not a century.

Having a paki, an indian, a nignog and a brazillian telling each other how to put a nut on a bolt makes no fucking difference, when it can only go on one way.
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Angry Alt Right Nerd said:
Tech is not one of those industries :lol::lol::lol:
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Tech is actively damaged by diversity still. I'm slowly becoming more and more convinced that the weird ass "Hate your customer base" attitude a lot of tech has was imported. Its derived from toxic jeet culture, that has permeated in and enshrined the idea of "I'm better than you so you will suck my shit and you will like it".
 
Angry Alt Right Nerd said:
Tech is not one of those industries :lol::lol::lol:
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How is it not? You can't smash random code in a line and make shit work.

Now, I may be well off here because I'm not a software nerd or coding pencilnecked pointdexter, but there will be set instructions for everything you need to do for 95% of the cases. Sure, there's fringe shit like there is when building, maintaining equipment or running meetings and making products.

80% of a companies jobs are busywork dickjobs that add 0 value and are just there to keep people employed. The whole thing is an illusion house of cards.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
How is it not? You can't smash random code in a line and make shit work.

Now, I may be well off here because I'm not a software nerd or coding pencilnecked pointdexter, but there will be set instructions for everything you need to do for 95% of the cases. Sure, there's fringe shit like there is when building, maintaining equipment or running meetings and making products.

80% of a companies jobs are busywork dickjobs that add 0 value and are just there to keep people employed. The whole thing is an illusion house of cards.
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This shit technically "works" too

 
Bog-standard Poster said:
You can't smash random code in a line and make shit work.

…there will be set instructions for everything you need to do for 95% of the cases. Sure, there's fringe shit like there is when building, maintaining equipment or running meetings and making products.
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Admittedly, I took one introductory CS course and have only very lightly dabbled, but… coding is like solving puzzles (hence why it’s known for autistic men). It’s applied mathematical proof (if, then, else, for all, true, false, etc).

If a problem could be solved by regurgitating a solution, you wouldn’t need to hire a new guy to do that: you’d just copy-paste the code and be done in 15 seconds.
 
gobbles said:
If a problem could be solved by regurgitating a solution, you wouldn’t need to hire a new guy to do that: you’d just copy-paste the code and be done in 15 seconds.
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In production and manufacturing, there are step-by-step books of what to do to make a factory run in a 'world-class' style. Yet, companies don't buy the cheap book, instead they pay lots of money for people to fix it.
While I know it's a bit apples and oranges between code and manufacturing, there's a set guideline of how to solve issues and problems, it's not a dark art that no-one knows about, is all I was trying to get towards.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
In production and manufacturing, there are step-by-step books of what to do to make a factory run in a 'world-class' style. Yet, companies don't buy the cheap book, instead they pay lots of money for people to fix it.
While I know it's a bit apples and oranges between code and manufacturing, there's a set guideline of how to solve issues and problems, it's not a dark art that no-one knows about, is all I was trying to get towards.
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Yeah, I think one of the issues that's starting to plague tech/coding (again, perspective of another outsider who has been in academia) is basically the competency crisis because you can't just test for IQ.

At the entry levels, being incompetent is fine because hopefully the 22-year-old isn't touching serious stuff and incompetence is somewhat expected. Sure, take this code and make X work. If you're retarded, you can't or shouldn't progress.

I am sure the programs listed in that recruiter's letter--as gross and extractive and entitled as it is--train their students to think first, solve the problem, assess if the solution could be more efficient, re-solve, and also make sure it doesn't break anything else. This is actually something that (sometimes) gets taught in good math programs, hence partially why CS and Math have such overlap. The upper levels--more autonomous levels--are more akin to creation than production.

It, to me, seems more like answering a story prompt with a ton of conditions than actually producing anything. For the author, "Okay, write a story with a white dog and a green balloon for six-year-olds that triggers sadness." There are an infinite number of ways to do this well, and yet most people are going to struggle to produce something passable. The guidelines for writing are taught in countless language and creative writing programs, and yet our masterworks (frequently written for children, no less) are still a minimum of 50 years old despite society's much greater educational attainment. Some things can't be taught.

I think coding/tech's way of creating good processes is (or was supposed to be) SWOT, AGILE, etc., but formalized write-review-share feedback-edit-repeat doesn't work if the person is neither curious nor intelligent.
 
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