It is getting tougher and tougher. There are routine layoffs and the company offers "voluntary" retirement, but I am not sure how "voluntary" the process is. L

It is getting tougher and tougher. There are routine layoffs and the company offers "voluntary" retirement, but I am not sure how "voluntary" the process is. Lot of politics is involved too I am sure. If you are laid off then you are screwed. I know of people who found it extremely difficult to land jobs because they have too much experience but if you have experience in hot tech like Salesfoce, clound, niche areas of SAP etc then you might survive. Nobody cares if a person can solve problems or not. :-) Everyone around me is pretty sure that their time will come. :-) We look at our annual appraisal and sigh out in relief when its not bad because that would mean a minimum of another 2 years. :-) But many of us have not really prepared for it. I am absolutely worried about it too. But the count of people is so huge and no matter what skills you have you will be just another face. I am thinking of doing certs in cloud in hope to keep me relevant in my company and long term thinking is to do something not related to IT at all. I have been keeping myself updated for years - taught myself Android, nodejs, golang etc etc but those do not matter in outsourcing shops.