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Weird that we keep hearing that tech is overstaffed, when literally every other sector reports labour shortages. My hunch is that many tech cos will soon reali

by pyb 4y ago

Weird that we keep hearing that tech is overstaffed, when literally every other sector reports labour shortages. My hunch is that many tech cos will soon realize that they're short-staffed too, and will have to start to hire again.

rileymat2 4y ago
I have not heard tech was overstaffed. But it could be generationally different than many industries with a disproportionate number of the workers being younger genX and millennial compared to other industries. So I don’t see it as weird.
mschuster91 4y ago
> My hunch is that many tech cos will soon realize that they're short-staffed too, and will have to start to hire again. Tech companies have a staff distribution problem: Meta, Twitter, Google - they all had way too many engineers chasing after the "next big thing" to achieve an early foothold and then expand the massive scale of these companies to utter dominance, while they neglected stuff like content moderation or customer support.
skippyboxedhero 4y ago
This isn't the case in the UK. Large tech companies are still hiring. If you don't have the boom, you don't have the bust. US tech companies are still massively and ludicrously overstaffed.
- 72deluxe 4y ago
  We can't seem to find competent staff. They're all appallingly bad.
  - pyb 4y ago
    Who's "we"?
  - skippyboxedhero 4y ago
    Yep, that has been the difference between companies that grew and the ones that didn't (if you look at Monzo, they needed to hire hundreds of devs overnight...they created an actual HR strategy rather than just posting a listing on Indeed, running bad interviews based around random questions and probing for social cues, and then hiring no-one). Tech jobs in the UK aren't even particularly high skill, tons of applicants for every role but hiring is run by people who have never hired before, have no business knowledge, and end up rejecting everyone...and then they lobby the govt for easing visa rules...it is all very puzzling. Btw...there are businesses in the UK that hire almost anyone with a degree, put them through a three-month bootcamp, and then hire them out £70k/year pro-rata rate. According to most tech companies, this should be impossible...yet these guys do it. The skills required aren't even complex, and we are struggling...shocking.
nonethewiser 4y ago
One does not imply the other.

by pyb 4y ago

rileymat2 4y ago

I have not heard tech was overstaffed. But it could be generationally different than many industries with a disproportionate number of the workers being younger genX and millennial compared to other industries. So I don’t see it as weird.

mschuster91 4y ago

> My hunch is that many tech cos will soon realize that they're short-staffed too, and will have to start to hire again. Tech companies have a staff distribution problem: Meta, Twitter, Google - they all had way too many engineers chasing after the "next big thing" to achieve an early foothold and then expand the massive scale of these companies to utter dominance, while they neglected stuff like content moderation or customer support.

skippyboxedhero 4y ago

This isn't the case in the UK. Large tech companies are still hiring. If you don't have the boom, you don't have the bust. US tech companies are still massively and ludicrously overstaffed.

72deluxe 4y ago
We can't seem to find competent staff. They're all appallingly bad.
- pyb 4y ago
  Who's "we"?
- skippyboxedhero 4y ago
  Yep, that has been the difference between companies that grew and the ones that didn't (if you look at Monzo, they needed to hire hundreds of devs overnight...they created an actual HR strategy rather than just posting a listing on Indeed, running bad interviews based around random questions and probing for social cues, and then hiring no-one). Tech jobs in the UK aren't even particularly high skill, tons of applicants for every role but hiring is run by people who have never hired before, have no business knowledge, and end up rejecting everyone...and then they lobby the govt for easing visa rules...it is all very puzzling. Btw...there are businesses in the UK that hire almost anyone with a degree, put them through a three-month bootcamp, and then hire them out £70k/year pro-rata rate. According to most tech companies, this should be impossible...yet these guys do it. The skills required aren't even complex, and we are struggling...shocking.

nonethewiser 4y ago

One does not imply the other.