Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
by fshr on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:44PM
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1. It’s not zero sum
2. You don’t need to innovate like that to create a successful startup
3. There is a very, very aggressive skill curve for developers and being ex-Google will have an advantage over the pool boy
Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
by robopsychology on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:25PM
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It's great your pool guy is furthering his education and going into tech but there is a skill gap between experienced ex-FAANG and those jumping into software for the pay check. Bootcamp/College grads are not competing at the same level as those who have 5+ years of good experience and a passion for tech (as most of us have, being on HN on a Friday evening/workday).
Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
by UncleEntity on Saturday April 01, 2023 @01:02AM
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And make long rants about how they only make $200k/year.
Poolboy will be happy to make anything significantly higher than what they make cleaning pools and won’t know about the good old days when you could call up the on staff chef and have food delivered to your cubicle. He’d be like “what’s a cubicle?”
in other words, nothing a React dev is going to put together in their kitchen
realistically, the unemployed will end up competing with the ten of thousands of new devs coming out of college and bootcamps...the guy who cleans our pool is learning python as part of his online coding degree (really)