Dare Obasanjo

Recently a Slack recruiter pinged me simply to “network” because they don’t have openings.

I’ve assumed the tech job market must be tougher with all the laid off ex-FAANG people on the market competing for jobs and fewer openings but is it really this bad?

Mar 12, 2024 at 12:27pmWeb
Show threadTiago CunhaMar 12, 2024

@carnage4life this post speaks to me. I'm about the same age. Still have a job, tho.

The layoff driven evaluation/profits market is scaring the hell out of me. I feel that could be me.

Show threadSal RahmanMar 12, 2024

@carnage4life

I'm still getting interviews.

Now I just don't know if I will land a job.

Only time will tell.

Show threadlampsofgoldMar 12, 2024
@carnage4life they don't want experience, experience means $$ and they think they can get by with shit quality
Show threadrhempelMar 12, 2024

@carnage4life I'll be 62 this year and have 40 years of deep embedded systems experience (think Cortex M0 to H7) experience. I am lucky to have a good job at a company that can use my experience to multiply team capabilities, not add to team capacity.

I would not want to be looking for a job right now, it looks like most recruiters are just looking to put butts in seats, not build high functioning teams.

Show threadAlexMar 12, 2024
@carnage4life if he would sit in Germany, we might hire him in no-time.
Show threadKeith SMar 12, 2024
@carnage4life yes it's that bad. 650+ applications, 30 years experience, 24 interviews, no jobs offered.
Show thread➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻Mar 12, 2024
@carnage4life Companies like to imagine that a JR engineer led by a JR manager leading a dozen people, all with access to AI, will be magically productive.
The tech industry, right now, is fundamentally broken, and with #bigtech and #MAANG / #FAANG all being the Xerox and IBMs of the future...sigh
Show threadIan K TindaleMar 12, 2024
@carnage4life my opinion is that since the late ’70s there was an almost fictional and unrealistic overestimation for the feasibility of the market for software (and therefore the market for a software industry and therefore a labour market in software) – outside of engineering (proper engineering, ie military, aerospace, government etc) the idea that just any group of layabouts could form a 'startup' and make some fancy screen-based jiggler of phosphor dots that people would want to pay money for is actually quite unrealistic and probably wouldn’t even survive the first few drafts of a story treatment for a science-fiction scenario – yet the world became filled with it, a veritable glut of people making pixel jiggling players and expecting to be paid proper job money for it – there never was any money in it
Show threadJohnathan NormanMar 12, 2024
@carnage4life "I'm 43 and I am unhireable at this point" says it all. Yes hiring has slowed but that isn't the entire story.
Show threadBenedict CohenMar 12, 2024
@carnage4life yep, it’s really bad. I was made redundant in December ‘22. Since then I’ve managed to scrape together 6months of work. I’ve been a London based iOS dev since 2011 and I’ve never seen the market be so bad for so long.