Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare
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Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the last two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.

Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare | WIRED::Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the last two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.

  • banneryear1868@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Doesn’t match my experience in Toronto area having worked in tech for 15 years. We struggle to fill vacancies yet we have more perks, benefits, and fully unionized. I switched roles this year and was looking at job postings in the area, saw postings that had been up for months.

    • Cheesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Pay is the missing piece. Tech pay is way down because everyone competed with FAANG for talent. Now that they had layoffs and cut pay, tech workers are looking for similar pay to what they had in the past but it’s not there anymore.

      • banneryear1868@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        We offer that pay though, like we make above average, 35 hour weeks, a lot of benefits for a tech job, and we still have postings that sit up for months.

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      1. Companies will leave listings up for ‘openings’ that they have no intention of actually filling. Mostly just to keep resumes coming in so they can keep tabs on the market and to give HR something to do.

      2. There may only be openings for junior & senior positions. At least here in the US there has been an industry-wide neglect of training entry-level for over a decade. As the workforce aged, there’s become an experience gap. There’s a shrinking pool of people with on-the-job experience, tons of people with degrees but no real experience, and no systems or will to onboard them.

      • Cheesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago
        1. is slightly incorrect. You are right they are not meant to be filled. We always called them evergreen rolls. We didn’t have a specific role in mind but we left reqs open to keep a flow of resumes to make sure we were not missing a top talent candidate that might be available and we don’t want to miss out due to timing of filling roles.
      • banneryear1868@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Most of our open postings are entry level because they’re backfills and there’s a lot of training and investment in new employees.