How Working in Tech Went from Being a Dream Job to the Worst

What will we do without all those "day in a life" videos???

Tech has always been cyclical. The people who had a surprised Pikachu face when they got laid off obviously had never been through a cycle before.

Software engineer since 2006 in big tech. Tech is cyclical. The highs can be very high, and the lows can be very low. If you want to be in this field, you should always be ready for the rug to be pulled out from under you. Your income is NOT guaranteed, and you should use the good times to stash away for the bad. We went bonkers during the pandemic, and things are correcting to something more normal. It's really not surprising or new.

there is no more a "dream" in general, not only for the "dream job", and not only in Tech anyway....

Its just corporate greed. Dont "dream" of jobs. No one should be dreaming about labour.

Yeah so they’re outsourcing this stuff to people in India. An 90k engineer in USA would be less then 20k USD in India

Apple and Nvidia didn't do any mass layoffs, because they didn't get on the hype train during the pandemic. Its the fault of these companies they over hired.

Working in the tech industry has always been scary. Look at the amount of outsourcing of jobs to India, China, Taiwan and Eastern European countries. Every group I worked with for the last 30 years eventually move all or most of their operation overseas. I'm more worry about that than (the over HYPE) AI.

AI is a hype, okay. It won't get rid of jobs yet, even Devin is a total shit show. These companies just don't want new junior employees.

"Pandora" shows Pandora the jewelry maker and not Pandora the tech company lol

Wanna get a 200K job? Go study leetcode 8h per day, learn 4 programming languages, 10 frameworks, code and get certifications in your free time, masters degrees preferred and also deal with 5h of mandatory meetings every working day lol

it is crazy how connected is tech to interest rates

Its weird. Ive always been into computers. Ever since Wolf3d came out and my uncle taught me the command to run it. There is a lot knowledge that has to be learned about different software programs, coding, how certain applications work on the OSI and TCP/IP model etc etc. But companies dgaf unless its bringing big profits in. Whats even more strange to me is a lot of construction and trade workers shit on people like this. "Now they'll have to do REAL work!"

The end of an era, and getting closer to the Universal Basic income to avoid riots.

I just feel bad for all the people that went to college for four years for no reason

so whats the dream job nowadays? bouncing in a bikini to british music in front of Malaysia assembled phone with Chinese short video app ?

working in tech is like trying to set fire to ashes

Its no better or worse than any other industry. No industry is safe

I've worked at 3 FAANG companies and it took me over 8 months to find a new job. The market is absolutely brutal. 😢 If anyone who is looking for a new job reads this, I wish you the best of luck, I wouldn’t wish job hunting on my worst enemy.

And the hell they put you through just to get the job. They tried to put me through a 3-hour interview process at 'Electronic Arts,' complete with coding challenges, meetings, a lunch break, and all kinds of crazy stuff. And that was after three rounds of phone interviews with various people at the company. And that was just one of the places I applied to—other companies made you do equally crazy things. If you dare to apply to more than one place, you'll be solving coding challenges on whiteboards, completing take-home assignments, and interviewing with 3-5 people at each company. And there's still no guarantee you'll get the job.