Comment by j2jj

2 months ago

" Secretly hoping they'll have to rehire."

They will just expect a lower wage rate. There's some tacit collusion going on here.. they are using LLMs as a vehicle to address the price that comes with the true shortage of software engineers. You seriously dont think they talk about this behind closed doors? of course they do.

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headinthesky  2 months ago

Absolutely. My hope is selfish - the market is awful

  • bloppe  2 months ago

    I promise you there are a ton of companies desperate to hire talent right now. It's hard on both sides of the market. Lots of noise, but there is demand for this supply. Unfortunately, that means personal connections are more valuable than they used to be, just to get the ball rolling.

    • heldrida  2 months ago

      Are you sure? Can you share some of those companies that are desperate to hire talent right now? I'd like serious teams as I need to find work. I do keep an eye on HN, Wellfound, Workatstartup, X, etc.

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krooj  2 months ago

My man, all these fuckers use the same parasitic management consultancies. That's why all this shit looks the same.

  • heldrida  2 months ago

    "Management consultancies" that make sense. I thought that maybe all these higher-up people know each other and share a common "Slack group"

  • jdasdf  2 months ago

    Cloudflare has never made a profit.

    Is your stance that shareholders should perpetually subsidize it out of the goodness of their hearts?

    • podgietaru  2 months ago

      My stance is this: Fine, maybe you need to restructure for profit reasons. If that is the case, then it is also beholden upon the people doing the layoffs to understand their responsibility in that.

      In an ideal world, a layoff of this scale would also require a shakeup of the management that let it get this bad in the first place.

      What's more, the higher up the chain, the less onerous the layoff for the individual getting laid off.

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