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Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs
- rukenshia 10y ago(disclaimer: I work at Volkswagen) Volkswagen also announced that 9,000 new jobs will be opened up with at least 1,000 of them being in the IT department in Wolfsburg alone. I wouldn't call this bad news.
- Naritai 10y agoI don't know why the IEEE is always such a downer about employment, but this article is stretching it the furthest I've ever seen. VW layoffs, especially if they come in the form of factory reductions / closures, could hardly be counted as 'tech industry'. Then, the actual layoffs that they tabulated at bottom of article are all significantly less than predicted. I assume it's tied to their anti-H1B lobbying, but it's getting pathetic.
- rukenshia 10y agoIt's not even layoffs. Just making use of "Altersteilzeit" (early part-time retirement) and then not filling the retired jobs.
- aswanson 10y ago'zeit' must roughly translate into 'time' in German, based on context. Is that correct?
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- jbpetersen 10y agohttps://translate.google.com/#de/en/zeit https://translate.google.com/#de/en/zeit
- aswanson 10y agodanke
- jsingleton 10y agoJa. See also the borrowed word Zeitgeist, literally time-ghost but more accurately the 'spirit of the age'.
- jjoonathan 10y agoIf only for the sake of managing the Overton window, it's good to see some counterpoint to the cries of "There's a terrible shortage of programmers [at the price point we want], we desperately need to increase [H1B quota, bootcamps, etc]!!!" that periodically bubble up from the Big Tech submarines.
- olalonde 10y agoJust a nitpick but I think you meant "disclosure" instead of "disclaimer". Disclaimer would be to signal you are not sure the job figures are accurate for example. Disclaimer: English isn't my first language.
- rukenshia 10y agoYou're right, thanks.
- vdnkh 10y agoThe most surprising thing to me is that Tinder has 200 employees (and plans to double it).
- user5994461 10y agoThat sounds perfectly reasonable. Rules of thumb: If a business has to operate 24/7 worldwide (and maybe even have office in multiple locations), it's gonna need over 100 employees. There is no sane way around that. You don't want to be in a business with less than that many, trust me ;)
- gaius 10y agoIf you need 1 engineer available 24/7, you need 3 teams of 3, one each in APAC, AMER and EMEA, at minimum. You can't sustain running with less, otherwise people can't ever take vacations or get sick... if you need 2 you need at least 12 and so on.
- ci5er 10y agoI know it's pushing it, but couldn't one go w/ 1 team of 5 (probably 6 for minimal downtime/buffer?) in NA to cover 24/7?
- Tushon 10y agoMaking people operate against circadian rhythm is a hard sell. Google advocates against that in SRE book.
- ci5er 10y agoAh. I did not know that. When I was growing up, there was a 24/7 coal-mine near-by and everyone was on two-week rotations for their shift. Which (naturally) sucked. Eternal jet-lag. I thought that letting people simple pick their preferred, and stick to it would solve the suckiness...
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- sjg007 10y agoThis title was stolen from hacker news.