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"So far this year, nearly 20 percent of the 170,000 tech company layoffs were software engineers, even though they made up roughly 14 percent of employees at th
by rufus_foreman 4y ago
"So far this year, nearly 20 percent of the 170,000 tech company layoffs were software engineers, even though they made up roughly 14 percent of employees at these companies".
Software engineer was the most often laid off job role at 19.3%, recruiter was second at 4.6%.
Definitely goes against the sentiment I've seen expressed here that developers are mostly not being affected.
- flappyeagle 4y agoDevelopers are more than 14% or 20% of the salaries paid out. They are not being laid off at a rate that's consummate with their monetary cost
- hotpotamus 4y agoYes, I detect the same sentiment (and it seems like a pretty natural one given the general audience here), but it also seems useful to see some data regarding the situation.
- thomascgalvin 4y agoI wonder what proportion of new pandemic hires were also software engineers. I have no data to back this up, but my gut tells me that during the pandemic, many companies over-hired software devs, and this round of right-sizing is correcting that mistake.
- porknubbins 4y agoThis data is still compatible with the statement “most of the layoffs are not software developers”, most likely is they are being layed off at a similar rate to everyone else and “software developer” is simply the modal role at a tech company. What other category of employee do you have that many of?
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoSales, generally. Sales scales with n clients whereas software should scale with like n log n or sqrt.