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What headlines have you been reading that make you think the many thousands of workers cut were all not tech talent?
by mdorazio 3y ago
What headlines have you been reading that make you think the many thousands of workers cut were all not tech talent?
- iepathos 3y agoThere are stats you can find if you look for it. Something like 5-10% was made up of actual engineers. Large majority was sales, marketing, HR, product and design, recruiting, and finance. I've only seen stats for Google but assume it was similar at most other companies with the exception of Twitter.
- mdorazio 3y agoAgain, what stats? Because that doesn't appear to be the case at all according to [1]. But let's take your word for it since you didn't provide a source. Here's an actual hard number: 170,000 tech workers cut this year alone (plus more last year) [2]. Let's use your 5% lower bound. That's 9,000 engineers. I hope you'll agree that's a lot. [1] https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/21/23692515/tech-workers-software-engineers-layoffs-meta-coding https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/21/23692515/tech-worke... [2] https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/ https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/
- jncfhnb 3y ago9000 is not a lot, and your own first link states tech roles have net increased, not decreased.
- jncfhnb 3y agoHeadlines say tech firms and imply engineers. Articles say it’s mostly the business folks at the tech firms.
- mdorazio 3y agoWhich articles? See my reply above.