Who's next on the chopping block? They even say codecels aren't really competitive anymore.
Link to letter for those who don't want to sign up to Blind. https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/20th%20January%202023.pdf
I meant to post this in /h/slackernews.
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Are they really axing coders & engineers or is it mostly the 'Project Managers', the people who somehow get paid a hundred grand to write emails, make powerpoints and attend meetings?
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Diversity sexy Indian dudes and AGILE SCRUMLORDS.
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Lmao you really think Sexy Indian dudes are diversity in CS?![:marseysmoothbrain: :marseysmoothbrain:](/e/marseysmoothbrain.webp)
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https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/living/feat-mindy-kaling-brother-affirmative-action/index.html they can be if they do what mindy kalings brother did![:marseyxd: :marseyxd:](/e/marseyxd.webp)
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Nope no evidence at all! Our system isn’t r-slurred!!
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apparently the average GPA they accept is 3.8. getting them to drop it all the way down to 3.1 makes it seem like a good grift if you can get away with it
. honestly, i doubt you have to even put a pic with your application... and once you get past admissions, how would anyone even know you did it, as long as you didn't out yourself like this guy?
wonder what elizabeth warren did to have people notice she was larping as pocahontas in school
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Im not sure if they are still online, but there used to be an LSAT and MCAT Ivy score calculator that would tell you your admissions likelihood. The biggest factor by far was race. If you put black you could basically be a C- minus student with a middling (but not total trash) LSAT or MCAT and have a chance still (not a good one but like 10-20%), if you put Asian you had to be straight As and excellent test scores for good odds.
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Get down to business on her wounded knees obviously
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I don't make the rules, white women working in HR do.
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Me : I will learn digital art
AI art comes along
Me: Frick....I will learn to code
The codeocalypse occurs.
What job should I try to learn next to collapse the industry dramabros?
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Just become a tradie and you'll be good
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Prostitute.
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Police officer.
Always in demand. Gun. Smack poors and blacks around, and shoot them if they get uppity. Hilariously strong union. Borderline impossible to fire unless you commit multiple felonies and get caught, and in prison you get slightly preferential treatment by separating you from the poors and blacks. In the collapse your skill set would be in even higher demand by the elite and wealthy. Lateral over to the Private Security/Military world if the collapse does not happen, police officers were in high demand for drivers since they had a lot of time behind the wheel doing aggressive/defensive maneuvers since no one else besides special operation force operators get time behind the wheel for aggressive/defensive manuevers.
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That one part time cop full time pimp in NY unironically had a good grift going on with all those "massage" spots he owned. Even gave the boys back at the station a fricking discount![:marseyxd: :marseyxd:](/e/marseyxd.webp)
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Toll booth operator
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Forklift operator
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Professional NEET/Tendies tester.
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Recruiters, middle managers, HR r-slurs, and then mostly codecel teams that they decide aren't worth the money plus other codecels mixed in.
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Uh, is IT still stable?![:marseysweating: :marseysweating:](/e/marseysweating.webp)
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Yeah these layoffs are a small dip in a larger trend of tech companies hiring a ridiculous amount of people and paying them a ton of money. Although I still spend a lot of my day shitposting online telling people not to go to school because AI will replace every job because I think it's hilarious that people eat this shit up and change their life plans over it.
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For real "oh no I made 300k for a few years and then get to put ex-google on my resume please pity me"
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drop out and trade crypto college is a scam bro
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Allegedly a quarter of Google's IT team got axed
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So far it has been mostly the project managers, HR chicks, marketing and other bloat. Not really suprising considering every tech company MASSIVELY overhired people after and during the pandemic.
Not a lot of actual codecels. Doesn't stop people thinking here that it's a codecel holocaust. Even Twitter started re-hiring engineers and sales people. (So the departments that actually generate revenue.)
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Nah, my friend got fired from Google. Really surprising since he's one of the smartest neurodivergent codecels I know.
Fortunately he had saved up enough money that he was thinking of retiring anyway, so I don't have to waste any more sympathy on those other "people."
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There are probably some smart codecels who are junior and terminated when they dont deserve it. I think its fair to feel sympathy for them. "L2code lmao" to the fired miners wasnt codecels, it was journoid scum
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I'm in the tech industry and I feel a lot of sympathy for those miners, in fact I donated to an Appalachian rural poverty fund a long time ago which helps people in these areas get back on their feet after losing their jobs. Sadly the stereotype of technology people being snobbish left-wing buttholes who hate rural Americans is mostly true: people like me are the exception rather than the rule. I'm a chud and my friend who worked at Google was chud-adjacent and both of us frequently had to hide our political beliefs for fear of hysterical Leftoids reporting us to HR for wrongthink. I can't help wondering if maybe the reason they fired a top performer like him is because they somehow got wind of his secret conservative beliefs and decided he needed to be purged.
Part of the reason I spread conspiracy theories online is because I hate the iron grip that woke ideology has over the technology industry and I figured that if these people were going to prevent me from advancing my career by discriminating against any techies who have right-wing political beliefs then it might be kind of cool to start a civil war and kill them all
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Holy ducking schizo lmfao go outside nerd
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Did he remember to post TRANS LIVES MATTER where HR could see it?
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Are they rehiring people they let go or are finding new employees?
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They'll start re-hiring junior codecels once they realize they cut too many codecels in a few months, and other codecels leave because they're worrying about being next.
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Couldn't they just do less?
I think I'd be okay if GChat--->Google Hangouts---> Whatever it's called now wasn't constantly being reborn
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Can somebody explain to me like I’m not a fricking nerd - which Silicon Valley characters are getting fired?
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show went downhill right around when she was introduced as a character![:marseygoodnight: :marseygoodnight:](/e/marseygoodnight.webp)
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Who?
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Froskurrin?
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Gabe should be fired. In reality though they usually just axe whole projects without a ton of due diligence if there are people worth keeping on the team
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Gabe Newell?!?![:marseypearlclutch: :marseypearlclutch:](/e/marseypearlclutch.webp)
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NEVER
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Frick gabe
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the foid
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Big Head, Jared, Monica and Gilfoyle's girlfriend who was collecting a paycheck for some reason.
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