As Tech Jobs Disappear, Silicon Valley Veterans Reset Their Careers

Re:As Tech Jobs Disappear, Silicon Valley Veterans Reset The... by 908B64B197 on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:34PM (#35508267)

Just a reminder that the WSJ has been pushing a lot of articles over layoffs in tech, overinflated SWE salaries and generally pushing the narrative that tech workers are "overpaid" and that it's time for this to end. With the WSJ, of course, being owned by Bezos, and the timing of these articles coinciding with the RTO policy at Amazon I can't help to think that this isn't a coincidence.

Reminder that most "tech workers" laid offs were in non-technical positions as well (ie not engineers). HR, recruiting, DEI...

https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te...

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0...

https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics...

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Re:As Tech Jobs Disappear, Silicon Valley Veterans Reset The... by kiba on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:47PM (#35508347)

I am not aware of WSJ being owned by Jeff Bezos.

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Re:As Tech Jobs Disappear, Silicon Valley Veterans Reset The... by renewiltord on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:58PM (#35508407)

This is a common mistake made on HN, often used as an explanatory factor for something else. "Because the WSJ is owned by Jeff Bezos, "

It's what really is amusing about a lot of the rhetoric around LLMs when they say this: it's the most human thing they're doing.

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Re:As Tech Jobs Disappear, Silicon Valley Veterans Reset The... by smallmind on Sunday April 09, 2023 @09:48PM (#35508352)

Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp, which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.

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