Just lost my job and it’s so depressing seeing stuff like this every single day. 400+ applications and you don’t even get a call anymore. Nothing from recruiters. When you do get an offer, its 20% lower pay than ever before, while cost of living goes up. So you have to engage in borderline indentured servitude just to eat and pay rent.
Whatever it is in gray below his nick, that’s just red flag after red flag.
“Stealth AI Startup”
Gotta say, couldn’t pick a less sympathetic person for the screenshot.
I think the trump HB1 visa thing has put a nail in this coffin for people in the tech industry. You have to compete with people who get paid 40% less and will be deported if they take a day off. If they made it so visas required prevailing wages and had better protections it would be less of a problem…
Not to mention programming is easily outsourced so wages heavily depend on things like relative education costs. All of which are likely to be less favorable while the country is being dismantled by an oligarch.
I don’t feel like the H1B is as big of an issue as outsourcing is. The company that I was just laid off from also laid off all the H1Bs and outsourced pretty much every junior role to India. I’m hearing about this in a lot of other companies as well. While this is anecdotal, it seems to me that with the rise of remote work, it proved that out sourcing was very viable. India has a huge talent pool of highly skilled engineers, who can speak English and are willing to work for pennies on the dollar. I’m not sure where AI plays part in this. Perhaps, it allows those outsourced developers to provide higher quality code faster than ever before, but I have no way to prove that.
Either way, it’s pretty much a blood bath in tech right now, not sure what to do myself. Considering going back to my old career.
My company is absolutely taking advantage of the H1Bs. They just did a huge round of “move to head quarters and take a pay cut or leave with severance”. Anecdotal, but it seemed to mostly target H1Bs. Every single one I know said they basically have to or return home because they don’t know if the government will even function to processes new sponsorships if they found one.
The problem is even accounting for exchange rate, you get what you pay for.
Yup There’s going to be a whole lot more almost people too. Because there’s no no refilling program in the USA. What are you supposed to do if you have a Masters in computer science and 5 years of experience? You can’t just go back to college for a 60K degree in nursing or become an electrician or something…
your spend
Nothing says “coke-addled car salesman” like “the spend”. I wish self-respecting humans would quit that.
Reduce your spend!
Rent is most of my budget. What else am I supposed to do?
I think they’re in order of importance.
But only you know if you can cut or not. like, are you at the point where you need to live in your car or sleep at the office or could you just buy bulk rice and beans and keep your nice comfy bed.
And the most important part about cutting your spending, that he fails to mention, is putting those savings into an income stream like dividend stocks or a high interest savings account. Money sitting in a checking account is losing value every day.
Everything ties back into the first point, dependency on a single wage is the entire problem people are having.
“Dependency on a single wage is the entire problem people are having” is a crazy statement to read from someone who is trying to give advice on the Internet. The entire problem is not that people have one job, it’s that all the profits are going to the fewest people in our society. No one should have to work two jobs to survive, that’s an insane status quo you’re attempting to defend.
Stop defending the status quo, stop defending corporations, stop trying to normalize surviving this system and start normalizing changing it. We need large societal reform and every additional person who has to work two jobs is another family ready to do so through violent means.
You’re asking a lot from a LinkedIn post
I’m responding to a comment on Lemmy, not the LinkedIn post. That should be obvious but here I am spelling it out just incase.
I’ll be very happy if my investments went to zero but I’m not living in a dumpster in the meantime. This is the system we have and you NEED to survive it to be able to make any type of positive change.
The fact the only thing you can think of better than one job is two jobs is very telling and really does reinforce my idea that it’s dependency that’s the issue. think of literally anything that isn’t selling your labour to capital and do that instead.
The amount of investment you’d need to reduce your need to work takes the average person multiple decades, that’s literally what retirement is. And even if you only considered a part time retirement that still takes decades. In fact my current understanding is most people’s retirement funds will be insufficient when they go to retire.
No amount of investing will save the majority of people from needing to work for the majority of their life. The other alternatives to selling your labor to capital, like starting your own business, requires up front investment and even then isn’t a guarantee. The number of jobs that require minimal investment and can serve as a sole source of income do not exist in sufficient quantities.
So no, investing is not the solution, becoming an entrepreneur is not a solution, at the scale of our society there are few solutions and the primary one is taxing corporations more and taxing billionaires out of existence.
People deserve a right to live. I’m not saying people shouldn’t plan for retirement, I’m not saying don’t try and start a business. I’m saying to you stop framing it as dependency, that’s a fuckin crazy thought process. The overwhelming majority of people go to school and then get a job. Those people deserve to thrive without having a perfect stock portfolio which will materialize in 40 years, without having a second job, without turning their art into a commercial enterprise.
What the fuck is “money sitting in a checking account”??
My checking account has about -$130 right now.
if you can overdraw your checking account I would seriously rethink … everything.
So every impoverished person lol
Wow what wonderfully ignorant advice. “If you don’t have enough money, consider having more.” The majority (not just “a lot of people”, but literally more than 50%) of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
have you considered not having avocado toast and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps?
Some people just don’t want to be helped. it really is a choice, huh?
Weird how even in this comment section, forming a union was never mentioned
Well, you did, comrade
That’s banned in most states, even though banning it is illegal
To hell with any ban, workers united can never be defeated
Pray to Luigi
Be the change you want to see!
At this point I’m glad I’m a janitor and AI doesn’t mop floors…
And I feel sorry for anyone who take those “LeARn To CoDe” nutters seriously when they gave that as advice on how to leave poverty.
Not in a “Haha, I’m bette than you cause I’m blue collar” sense, but in a…
“I’m just grateful to have bread crumbs, the situation is dire, there are no easy solutions outside of revolting against our so-called masters.”
No. Education will always remain the way out of poverty. And regardless, no “AI” can replace actual programmers at present. Their code and code quality are entirely unreliable and not suitable for serious, production use. They may be sufficient for hobbyist applications, but for software that is actually getting deployed, LLM outputs vary too widely, and you will always need experienced programmers to monitor them and correct errors. Also, an AI can not come up with a coherent design principle for you, the individual modules and moving parts it spits out will invariably fail to work together at scale. Creating software is much more than just churning out code. It requires advanced reasoning and specific knowledge, and AI is not there yet, and who knows if it ever will. All companies that are firing (or not hiring) programmers over current day LLMs are going to fail.
Communism is also a way out of poverty
Same here. I’m so glad I got out of IT and software dev right now. I’m a refrigeration tech and my job isn’t going anywhere. As long as people need to make things cold or hot in my area then I have a job.
You should tailor your resume to every job you apply for, but not every job requires a different resume. If you’re applying to a bunch of the same positions then you don’t need to change anything.
The more experience you have, the more difficult it is becoming
That seems logical to me. There are fewer senior level positions, and if your skills are rising to that level you’re competing with all of the others that are as well. Fewer chairs remaining for the same number of candidates.
Also, I can say that I almost never hire folks just by posting for a job. At the senior level its so important to get a candidate that actually knows what they claim because the consequences of finding out they don’t on the job are too great. This is where we reach into our networks so that any candidate comes with word-of-mouth recommendation from someone we trust.
I don’t know why it is somehow socially acceptable to talk about a candidates faults in these word-of-mouth recommendations, but its considered poisonous from raw interviews. A perfect candidate doesn’t exist, or if they do they can likely make way more doing an even more expensive project. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and if your strengths are strong enough for the particular gig, and your weaknesses aren’t too bad for it, you get the gig.
At least in my industry who you know (because they themselves are trustworthy and can vouch for you) is potentially more important that what you know. This is why you’re told to network with others.
At the senior level its so important to get a candidate that actually knows what they claim because the consequences of finding out they don’t on the job are too great. This is where we reach into our networks so that any candidate comes with word-of-mouth recommendation from someone we trust.
I never thought about this but yes, this is why networking is super important. It is said that about 91% of hirings are through network. And speaking from practical experience, I can corroborate that most of my jobs had been from connections. I distinctly remember my first proper job in my field, and it was through happenstance bumping into an old friend who recommended me to apply for a role in his previous company. I think I would not have gotten that job which served as a great foundation for my career, had I not met him and did not mention to recruiters about him.
Can confirm the first part. But then he says if you have too much experience you get less bites. And late night calls without more pay are an issue. Then tells us to “upskill” and have a “side hustle.”
Edit: Also, sorry OP. Been going through that too.
I know this is anecdotal but I am regularly trying to hire entry level, no more than highschool required, at $18 per hour starting. We get interviews set up and they just don’t show up. No text, no email, no call saying, “thanks for the opportunity but I chose something else.” Just don’t show up. I don’t get it.
It’s the new game. Companies stopped replying. There’s no confirmation they even got your resume. They ghost you after interviews.
It’s not your fault that loads of other companies treat applicants like shit. But they do, so applicants stop caring.
But also, if people aren’t engaged, your salary is too low.
I am an Uber driver. My day started at 5:30 am. I woke up in my car this morning about 5:00 am, bought a coffee, and got started.
My day will end in about 20 minutes when I finish my second charge of the day (renting an EV). Then I will go home and shower since I haven’t had a chance yet.
I’m $267 richer as a result of my 16 hour day. Well, less than that once you figure the price of the juice to charge the car, and my food.
This is fucking hard, but it beats the last job I had, where staff was being cut and management refused to acknowledge that we were all doing the jobs of 2-7 people depending on the day. That might have only been eight hours a day but psychologically it was torture.
There are probably efforts to organize and unionize ride share workers in your area. You should look for them and join the fight.
Can confirm times are hard. I work at a tech company and every role in engineering gets >100 applications the day it goes live.
My advice - go to events hosted by those companies, get to know the people who work there and find ways to help them. Then get them to refer you for roles.
