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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Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
Meta is closing down Sanzaru Games, Twisted Pixel and Armature. Camouflaj has been gutted is essentially left with a skeleton crew for now.

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Gaming is a 2020 investor fad, its all AI now. Investors gave gaming a billion dollar shot, and they got Concord. Its now pretty clear to the investor space that the gaming space doesn't know what its doing and doesn't know how to make a product a success. Part of that is the natural difficulty of targeting entertainment products, but far to much of it is egotistical ignorance in gaming studios developing what any sane gamer would identify as a bad idea. And considering the general attitude of "it is a badge of pride to have a failed project that tried to prove the audience wrong" out there, investors are doing the wise thing and fucked off.

Only started taking the slower corps a year to catch up with the trend and realize this was a big waste of money.
 
Does anyone recommend any Industries much less prone to layoffs? I don't work at a tech company, it's actually healthcare but not a hospital (I work in training though), but they are doing small spaced out layoffs it seems like along with reorganization. I also got laid off in early 2024 before this job. Life honestly seems bleak. At any moment I could be let go again. Idk where we are headed, but it seems very bad. Not just in tech, economy wide.
 
aguywatchingitallburn said:
Does anyone recommend any Industries much less prone to layoffs? I don't work at a tech company, it's actually healthcare but not a hospital (I work in training though), but they are doing small spaced out layoffs it seems like along with reorganization. I also got laid off in early 2024 before this job. Life honestly seems bleak. At any moment I could be let go again. Idk where we are headed, but it seems very bad. Not just in tech, economy wide.
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The trades.
People will always need plumbers, leckies, gas engineers, carpenters, car mechanics etc.
 
aguywatchingitallburn said:
Does anyone recommend any Industries much less prone to layoffs? I don't work at a tech company, it's actually healthcare but not a hospital (I work in training though), but they are doing small spaced out layoffs it seems like along with reorganization. I also got laid off in early 2024 before this job. Life honestly seems bleak. At any moment I could be let go again. Idk where we are headed, but it seems very bad. Not just in tech, economy wide.
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The government. Trump did the only layoff in the entire history of the federal government, and blue states never do them.
 
Beavis said:
I think jobs will be one of if not the biggest issue of the 2028 election cycle.
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and both sides will gladly fuck you over in that regard, conservatives will invest millions into the ai bubble to make your job obsolete (not really but on paper is enough for them) while libtards will trip over themselves to give your job to indians or other random shitskins
 
aguywatchingitallburn said:
Does anyone recommend any Industries much less prone to layoffs? I don't work at a tech company, it's actually healthcare but not a hospital (I work in training though), but they are doing small spaced out layoffs it seems like along with reorganization. I also got laid off in early 2024 before this job. Life honestly seems bleak. At any moment I could be let go again. Idk where we are headed, but it seems very bad. Not just in tech, economy wide.
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quaawaa said:
The government. Trump did the only layoff in the entire history of the federal government, and blue states never do them.
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This goes double for defense/intelligence, a.k.a. the only part of government that expands no matter who is in charge. You don't even have to be a Fed, cost-plus contracts and sole-source suppliers are so ubiquitous that job security is pretty solid.
 
UncleTusky said:
This goes double for defense/intelligence, a.k.a. the only part of government that expands no matter who is in charge. You don't even have to be a Fed, cost-plus contracts and sole-source suppliers are so ubiquitous that job security is pretty solid.
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The hardest challenge to these jobs is obtaining a security clearance.
 
Flatline said:
The hardest challenge to these jobs is obtaining a security clearance.
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That bar is lower than you think, based on friends with Secret clearances most of the checks for those (criminal, financial) are automated vice calling friends/family and so long as you are not a felon, a deadbeat, or a recent recreational drug user you are likely to get approved without so much as a phone call from the investigator.

If you read the Snowden damage assessment that guy had a Top Secret//SCI (I think this is what people mean when they say "above top secret") clearance and kept it despite being repeatedly disciplined by his managers at the CIA, mishandling classified information (the details are not given but it was unrelated to the 2013 data dump), and one of his character references during his initial background investigation telling the CIA she thought he was unfit to handle classified information.
 
UncleTusky said:
That bar is lower than you think, based on friends with Secret clearances most of the checks for those (criminal, financial) are automated vice calling friends/family and so long as you are not a felon, a deadbeat, or a recent recreational drug user you are likely to get approved without so much as a phone call from the investigator.

If you read the Snowden damage assessment that guy had a Top Secret//SCI (I think this is what people mean when they say "above top secret") clearance and kept it despite being repeatedly disciplined by his managers at the CIA, mishandling classified information (the details are not given but it was unrelated to the 2013 data dump), and one of his character references during his initial background investigation telling the CIA she thought he was unfit to handle classified information.
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TS comes in flavors for particular things. Some a far more difficult than others to obtain. And other projects are clearance + need to know authorized lists. I cant speak to anything more detailed.

Secret is not hard to obtain if you arent a criminal or a retard or associate with really really poor life choices of people. Pay your taxes dont get arrested and dont do dumb shit basically. Its currently the same background check as public trust just different fees (or was a few years ago) and every postal worker has a public trust almost. So yeah. And i want to say you provide the reference list instead of everyone you associate with ever.

TS can be an absolute nightmare with feds crawling up everyone's ass you've associated much with for years. And banning travel to places, banning talking to various groups and nationalities. Which, isnt necessarily a bad thing but its not something you just do and hide anything the feds dont like from. The bar is *substantially* different than Snowden days.

(Source trust me bro but actually seriously do.)
 
Duane Dibbley said:
The trades.
People will always need plumbers, leckies, gas engineers, carpenters, car mechanics etc.
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I started dabbling in car stuff, which lead into electronics... If you can program you can do any of this shit (especially with an AI). Do be careful to pull the plug when it starts smoking though. If I get laid off I would start flipping half beat corollas while I went for an electrician cert. Maybe go into CNC or something, it's basically programming right? I'm the slow/cautious type and have a PADI, I could get into diving but who knows how long I would last at my age. Maybe use the time to get in shape and start climbing towers or something fucked like that if it got real bad.... but I'm too old. Trucking has a certain appeal but shit margins.

aguywatchingitallburn said:
Does anyone recommend any Industries much less prone to layoffs? I don't work at a tech company, it's actually healthcare but not a hospital (I work in training though), but they are doing small spaced out layoffs it seems like along with reorganization. I also got laid off in early 2024 before this job. Life honestly seems bleak. At any moment I could be let go again. Idk where we are headed, but it seems very bad. Not just in tech, economy wide.
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Medical is a pretty good field, there are infinity old people who need to be drained of every last cent on their way out the door. It's probably a restructuring/your local situation. Also maybe look into retirement states or something :P

Ahriman said:
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team:
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Tailwind is nice for prototyping but the way some shops use it is short-bus AF.
 
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So this has been trending on Twidder

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Context:

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Then he immediately got ratio'd to hell by a lot of replies. TL;DR Raytheon are still on board of the DEI bandwagon and as such, their HR department is absolute trash, getting in the way of hiring actually good, competent people.

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Even Jersh weighed in.

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HAHAHA OH WOW!

You've made your DEI bed, now lie in it.

SUFFAH! :story:
 
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OtherLastTrainHome said:
we just need to import more professionals via h-1b.
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So, a white pill of a small size. I follow a lot of the immigration Reddits. One story that is getting boosted is H1-Bs are being laid off a lot, especially in the tech sector. Now lawyers are telling them to switch to a B-2 visa. I feel the lawyers are doing this out of spite but also fatigue. An immigration lawyer I had to consult with for my immigration said he is swamped with H-1B issues constantly. Let's just say there is a type.

Now, a key component of a B-2, you cannot work or study. Your stay is on a 6-month timer. You have to leave, or else you will be banned from ever coming back to the US. This seems to be happening a lot, so if you are in Texas in 6 or so months, expect property prices to dip.

I will also give hope in Texas, especially the property market, and rents are starting to balance out, thankfully. As for jeet fatigue, it's through the roof. One letter I was talking to, just outright said, if you are an H1-B or B-2 Indian, they won't take you. Now, this was a lovely black lady who was from Prosper. Look up Prosper and jeet fatigue. The lawyer I was talking with just vented, which was pretty based.

As for AWS, they did those to themselves. They overshot their costs on AI and saw no return, and with commerce and retail being very conservative with spending. They had to eat it in losses. The Microsoft layoffs are going to be brutal. They have to fork out about 100 billion to OpenAI to keep that shitshow afloat. To put it into scale, Microsoft has about 102 billion in liquid assets. I say 100 because OpenAI has those data centres to build, but also needs about 30 - 50 billion to not fold.
 
UncleTusky said:
That bar is lower than you think, based on friends with Secret clearances most of the checks for those (criminal, financial) are automated vice calling friends/family and so long as you are not a felon, a deadbeat, or a recent recreational drug user you are likely to get approved without so much as a phone call from the investigator.
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Secret isn't really anything special.
TooManyKittens said:
TS comes in flavors for particular things. Some a far more difficult than others to obtain. And other projects are clearance + need to know authorized lists. I cant speak to anything more detailed.
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And it takes a year or more to get.
 
aguywatchingitallburn said:
Does anyone recommend any Industries much less prone to layoffs? I don't work at a tech company, it's actually healthcare but not a hospital (I work in training though), but they are doing small spaced out layoffs it seems like along with reorganization. I also got laid off in early 2024 before this job. Life honestly seems bleak. At any moment I could be let go again. Idk where we are headed, but it seems very bad. Not just in tech, economy wide.
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One of the most growing industries that has a low ceiling to start is autism. Autism is huge both due to a growing pool and the lack of people that can tolerate the work. Only issue is that it is not huge pay, especially for a role that can dish out physical damage. However, it is so understaffed that it seems like workers can practically do whatever they want as who else would work.
 
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