No data to back up the headline? Anecdotally, sure there are a lot of layoffs, but what percentage of the total tech workforce is it? And how does the number of laid-off people compare to the number of existing open positions for devs?
According to this[1], there are 3.85mm tech jobs and 193,900 jobs added this year, so overall the industry grew. It reminds me of the people expecting house prices to fall 30% because interest rates went up a little -- there is still a ton of demand compared to the slightly increased supply on the market, so prices won't shift that much.
[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3542681/how-many-jobs-...
For moral reasons, I don't want to hire someone who worked at Facebook. For business reasons, I don't want to hire someone who was one of the worst performers at Facebook.
I expect many of these candidates will be laughed out of the room during the negotiating stage for asking for $300k total comp. The good times are over!
Software engineers looking for a job should consider the chip industry, which is not just about hardware engineers. Plenty of software engineer openings https://semiengineering.com/jobs/ and many are remote
Same question I had before: where are the numbers?
Seems like some companies are hoping to get great talent on the cheap (and pieces like this are trying to fan the flame of reduced employee costs), but I don't believe most of these layoffs affected large numbers of software engineers.
Would love for some numbers regarding this, but until I see stats on number of now-available software engineers I don't see any reason to believe this piece.