I started working for a big corporation about six months ago. Turns out a few months before I started there was a new CTO hired from a startup. This CTO has been on a hiring spree and basically hired all of the technical staff of the startup he came from (to the point that they’re suing the company I work for).
All these people from the startup have their own office, away from all the corporate offices. And they’re writing something (that they won’t reveal) in what they refer to as their bunker. The best we can gather is that they’re coming up with modern equivalents of all the backend services. This would mean that everything the devs do in the office I work in will be redundant.
I have the feeling that within a year or so (maybe less) there’ll be mass layoffs of all the existing devs. Am I being paranoid?
CTO coming in hot, an employee poaching lawsuit, pet dev team working in a “bunker” separate from corporate, and that no matter how well-documented and designed “Chesterton’s fence” applies to back-ends so it’s unlikely to be a smooth cut-over. These are all bad signs.
What’s good is that you have some number of months, maybe a year, maybe more, to find your next role.