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There’s been over 1 million people laid off in tech in the past 4 years https://www.trueup.io/layoffs https://www.trueup.io/layoffs
by amrocha 11mo ago
There’s been over 1 million people laid off in tech in the past 4 years
https://www.trueup.io/layoffs https://www.trueup.io/layoffs
- embedding-shape 11mo agoAgain, sucks to be in the US as a programmer today maybe, but this isn't true elsewhere in the world, and especially not if you already have at least some experience.
- lm28469 11mo agoDefinitely true in western Europe, and finding a job is extremely hard for the vast majority of non expert devs. Of course if you're in south eastern europe or in south asia where all the jobs are being offshored you're having the time of your life.
- embedding-shape 11mo ago> Definitely true in western Europe, and finding a job is extremely hard for the vast majority of non expert devs. I don't know what else to say except that hasn't been my experience personally, nor the experience of my acquaintances who've re-skilled to become programmers these last few years, in Western Europe.
- amrocha 11mo agoDo you base your entire worldview purely on your own personal experience?
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- amrocha 11mo agoIt’s ok to admit that you were wrong. Your experience is good, but the industry is doing very poorly right now. I showed you data to back that up. Someone else posted data about Europe. Don’t close your eyes and plug your ears and pretend you didn’t hear anything.
- lm28469 11mo agoAnecdotes are cool but we came up with a neat little thing known as statistics. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-job-postings-fall-across-060040793.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-job-postings-fall-across... > Among the 27 countries analysed, European nations saw the steepest fall in tech job postings between 1 February 2020 and 31 October 2025, > In absolute terms, the decline exceeded 40% in Switzerland (-46%) and the UK (-41%), with France (-39%) close behind. > The United States showed a similar trend, with a decline of 35%. Austria (-34%), Sweden (-32%) and Germany (-30%) were also at comparable levels.
- MattRix 11mo agoYou seem to keep having to add more and more qualifiers to your statements…
- nosianu 11mo agoI only see one. "Outside the US" was the starting proposition, then they only added "experienced".
- spicyusername 11mo agoThis has more to do with monetary policy than AI, though.
- amrocha 11mo agoI couldn’t agree more, I think AI is more about taking power away from tech workers who have historically had a lot of power compared to other non unionized workers.
- blackqueeriroh 11mo agoOh I disagree
- amrocha 11mo agoGood thing I wasn’t replying to you then!
- svantana 11mo agoAccording to that site, there were more tech layoffs in 2022 than in 2024 or 2025. Doesn't that speak against the "AI is taking tech jobs" hypothesis?
- hamdingers 11mo agoMassive, embarrassingly shortsighted overhiring in 2020 and 2021 seems like the more likely culprit.
- amrocha 11mo agoI agree, I think AI taking jobs is all smoke and mirrors by companies trying to gas up their stock prices
- empath75 11mo agoI have been laid off 4 times. Tech has a lot of churn, there are a lot of high risk high reward companies.
- amrocha 11mo agoGood thing I posted statistics that show this is an industry wide phenomenon and not just high risk companies going bust then!