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Theoretically you have a point. On the other hand it’s so bad for recruiting. I view companies that do large layoffs the same way I view companies that do a lot
by xcrjm 2y ago
Theoretically you have a point. On the other hand it’s so bad for recruiting. I view companies that do large layoffs the same way I view companies that do a lot of contract hiring. You clearly don’t care about employees and their wellbeing.
- emodendroket 2y agoIf it's localized to one company it is but that's the beauty of a sector-wide slowdown... where are they going to go instead?
- nebula8804 2y agoMaybe we can see this as a positive, if it gets bad enough, the people coming into tech from the bootcamps who just did it for the money might move onto other fields.
- emodendroket 2y agoIsn’t that why anyone does any job? Even if you love tinkering with computers the reality of a job involves a lot of other stuff.
- nebula8804 2y agoEh, I guess I have a different mentality about this. There are people that just love what they do for their job. Sure they can go from job to job but they actually enjoy doing the work. I grew up during a time when the CS department at my college was loserville. No one wanted to be there except the people truly passionate about the field and the department did not get much respect from the rest of my (engineering) school because of these small enrollment numbers(relative to the other departments). Now its one of the largest programs on the east coast. Its cool that more people appreciate the field but as a small kid, I decided that I would have gone into this field even if it did not pay the big bucks so it was a no brainer when I enrolled.
- twojobsoneboss 2y agoBe real, it’s google. They could layoff 10k every month for another year and still have people lining up from around the world to get in
- taylodl 2y agoBe real - those kind of people aren’t worth hiring!
- ToxicMegacolon 2y agoSeems like direct path to becoming IBM to be honest
- tarsinge 2y agoGoogle was so impactful in redefining work environment in the 2000s that people have now a very hard time getting over them being now just another old school big corporation. I remember in the early 2010s the aura Google had here on HN was crazy, I guess 10 years are still not enough to destroy that image.
- eitally 2y agoTo be fair, though, even if the culture isn't the same as ten years ago, the perks (and pay) generally are. For people who want to work in a technical role and who may be in traditional enterprise IT, looking up to big tech (including Google) is still pretty rational.
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- dcrow0 2y agoTF? since when do corporations give a shit about you?