UnderpantsWeevil

@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the anecdotal evidence I’ve seen among all my peers and social networks contradicts those numbers

  Definitely possible that Silicon Valley is in some kind of IT recession. They’ve been swinging for the fences at crypto, VR, and AI going on six years and wiffing like crazy.

  But if you’re just a glorified digital accountant (like me), I’m here to report that IT is doing perfectly fine. You can earn a high-five / low-six figure salary at any number of mid-cap businesses. Even basic SQL experience is in high demand. Tons of legacy infrastructure to support. Tons of interfaces to build and data to massage between systems. Tons of new applications to deploy and customize. The real work is endless. The phony baloney bullshit work is what ran out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently, tech unemployment is under 3%. Salaries are 2x-5x the national average depending on specialty. If this is a slump, I’m hard pressed to imagine a boom.

  You have to keep in mind we’re coming off a decade of industry growth, particularly in the wake of COVID. These 500,000 jobs are a fraction of the IT jobs created annually.

  statista.com/…/increase-reduction-of-technology-t…

  Demand for IT even in 2023 is up yoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those workers looking for new 100% WFH jobs are in for a rude awakening. The market is not what it was a couple of years ago.

  Gotta disagree. The demand for tech workers continues to be voracious. And most employers don’t have the abysmal administrative policies of Amazon.

  You’re far better off at a mid-cap firm with management that doesn’t jerk off to Ayn Rand novels than one of the AI obsessed FAANG firms. Take a small salary cut and enjoy a large improvement to your work life balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched co-workers quit over a 3/2 hybrid schedule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount is shutting down its TV studio as part of a new wave of layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The industry continues to evolve

  A thing I say as I’m being chewed up and swallowed by the newest apex predator of venture capital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s already the case