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post 1668241303 09-21-2022, 01:30 PM
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That's awful. Best of luck. The economy sucks right now, and many tech firms are laying people off I keep reading. The down turn shouldn't last for ever though. A split government will hopefully improve the economy and get things moving in a positive direction once again.
post 1668241383 09-21-2022, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted By shmobin⏩
OP can swim the Nile if he wants. The employer doesn't need to give him a reason.


What kind of employee do you not give any projects to? The kind of employee that isn't good enough for any projects.
That's not how consulting works. You're not given projects, you actively seek them out, often interview for them and are then staffed. Usually this doesn't happen within the first 90 days though, so I'm curious if OP was told he was onboarding or on the bench.
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post 1668241493 09-21-2022, 01:36 PM
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Sorry to hear OP. Probably hard to land something if you don't have years of experience under your belt unless you're a self taught / motivated superstar that exceeds expectations. Just keep looking there's something out there that will fit you. Hopefully you learned something in the time you were with that company.

My bf just fired 3 people this past week but I think that was just because they've outgrown the employee / getting rid of the dead weight. They had people lined up already to replace them. The market is wild. He & his business partner are flying to Costa Rica next week for a week & half sponsored by Costa Rican gov as an incentive to bring business there with tax exemptions. Might not be just the ****** competing.. but it also hasn't worked out well with the ****** companies that they've tried to use before. We'll see what's different with the Costa Ricans.
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post 1668241583 09-21-2022, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
That's not how consulting works. You're not given projects, you actively seek them out, often interview for them and are then staffed. Usually this doesn't happen within the first 90 days though, so I'm curious if OP was told he was onboarding or on the bench.
Tell that to the OP. He's the one that said "he wasn't given any projects".
post 1668241593 09-21-2022, 01:38 PM
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sucks OP, tech is getting destroyed. Expecting to lose my job soon.

you'll bounce back, just rot and ride it out in the meantime
post 1668241633 09-21-2022, 01:38 PM
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Well capitalized tech companies are fine, and will continue to grow and dominate more and more industries.

What you all in this thread seem to be talking about is, SMALL cap tech, or startup tech companies that aren't well capitalized.

It's hilarious to me how all these stupid "Wall Street analysts" don't have the first clue about how tech companies operate - of course we use debt to finance our expansion / R&D and business operations....it's cheap money and there are tax advantages. Why on earth would you burn your cash reserves?

Anyway, yes there is always bloat in the small companies, but it's not impactful to the overall industry. Apple, Google, META, Amazon, Microsoft aren't going anywhere.
post 1668241703 09-21-2022, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted By xbluexhawkx⏩
why hire plebs out of college when you can get a ****** with 10+ years of coding experience to do it right?
I made another thread about going into saturated fields expecting high pay.

My question is though, how the fook and why the fook are ****** dominating the IT field?
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post 1668241733 09-21-2022, 01:39 PM
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Do you have any technical skills OP? Although some of the big dogs have slowed hiring (slowed not stopped), many mid-sized tech companies can not hire skilled workers fast enough, which has created huge upward wage pressure on them. Essentially the companies are cucked.

I made a move recently and got a 50% increase in base salary + stock options + perks. A lot of my friends have made similar moves with similar results.
post 1668241763 09-21-2022, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted By xbluexhawkx⏩
why hire plebs out of college when you can get a ****** with 10+ years of coding experience to do it wrong and make an unfixable mess?
You seem to have made a typo so I fixed it for you
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post 1668241943 09-21-2022, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted By theory816⏩
I made another thread about going into saturated fields expecting high pay.

My question is though, how the fook and why the fook are ****** dominating the IT field?
English is basically their first language thanks to the Empire and they wildly underbid projects to attract cost cutting yankee bean counters. Push out a bunch of dog chit code with no documentation and then the Yanks are trapped.
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post 1668241983 09-21-2022, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted By TheUniBrah⏩
Do you have any technical skills OP? Although some of the big dogs have slowed hiring (slowed not stopped), many mid-sized tech companies can not hire skilled workers fast enough, which has created huge upward wage pressure on them. Essentially the companies are cucked.

I made a move recently and got a 50% increase in base salary + stock options + perks. A lot of my friends have made similar moves with similar results.
This is the reality - wages are up huge - if you are *actually* a skilled engineer with experience (Software or Hardware) you could have jumped almost anywhere over the last year and recieved a huge pay bump - now the large companies are offering huge pay increases and RSU grants to their key personal internally to retain people.

I just got a huge raise - and we are still hiring
post 1668242213 09-21-2022, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted By SUPERH0T⏩
English is basically their first language thanks to the Empire and they wildly underbid projects to attract cost cutting yankee bean counters. Push out a bunch of dog chit code with no documentation and then the Yanks are trapped.
Yea but I would guess that many different fields requires a knowledge of English and not just IT.
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post 1668242423 09-21-2022, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted By CulturalDecay⏩
Apple, Google, META, Amazon, Microsoft aren't going anywhere.
They arent going anywhere obvioously but they are laying people off too or slowing hiring.
post 1668242823 09-21-2022, 02:00 PM
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You had me at "Just got Laid"... But the rest of post title lost me in a choppy white water river of deep despair and heartache. Keep trying, it will all be worth it in the end.
post 1668242893 09-21-2022, 02:01 PM
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Sucks OP. But you'll find another job eventually. Alot of tech brahs were pretty smug about WFH while i was walking i to covid rooms everyday. And alot of them still dont want to go into the office. After this tech crash reality's going to set in.
post 1668243443 09-21-2022, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted By heiltrump2024⏩
OP claims:



what do you think he got let go for if he wasn't on any projects?




OP was it exactly at the 90 day mark, or before/after?
Right before
post 1668244073 09-21-2022, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
So were you on the bench? Did they verbalize it that way?

Regardless, that really stinks and I'm sorry. Keep your chin up.
Yep was on the bench for too long. Thank you will do
post 1668244113 09-21-2022, 02:18 PM
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post 1668244173 09-21-2022, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted By NitrogenWidget⏩
weren't you the guy who thought you were too good for help desk?

if so you would still have a job.
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post 1668244613 09-21-2022, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted By TheUniBrah⏩
Do you have any technical skills OP? Although some of the big dogs have slowed hiring (slowed not stopped), many mid-sized tech companies can not hire skilled workers fast enough, which has created huge upward wage pressure on them. Essentially the companies are cucked.

I made a move recently and got a 50% increase in base salary + stock options + perks. A lot of my friends have made similar moves with similar results.
A lot of technical skills from school but nothing in real world applications yet
post 1668244813 09-21-2022, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted By akferd⏩
Sucks OP. But you'll find another job eventually. Alot of tech brahs were pretty smug about WFH while i was walking i to covid rooms everyday. And alot of them still dont want to go into the office. After this tech crash reality's going to set in.
Yea I’ve got no problem working in an office maybe that will be a decent advantage between me and the smug devs that complain about it

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Sound like a plan thank you
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Damn OP sorry to hear that srs. We both got hired at around the same time. I'm at 5 months.

Either way, I would try to get hired by a huge corp.

My place can't keep people at all, but I guess not everyone is cut out for a 24/7 environment.

That being said, did you have anything that you could have added to your resume from this position?

Even if its just one project, I feel you could use that + back to the leetcode grind and get something better srs.

You never know whats around the corner. Could be something much better than getting laid off was bad.
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Originally Posted By redraider86⏩
That's not how consulting works. You're not given projects, you actively seek them out, often interview for them and are then staffed. Usually this doesn't happen within the first 90 days though, so I'm curious if OP was told he was onboarding or on the bench.
Here is the thing tho

It could be some small "start up consultancy" like those exist even tho no famous/prestigious incubator/fund would ever accept a consultancy with no product.

So I guess it was a small ****ty one and they are downsizing as even MBB/Big 4 are in a some what freeze.
Originally Posted By BigBallsMcgee⏩
They arent going anywhere obvioously but they are laying people off too or slowing hiring.
I mean this is true but this is all relative to other fields.

Sure, IT/Comp Sci is not a gold mine, just like any business cost cutting / hiring freezes at a time of economic downturn is expectable.

But if Finance, Accountancy, Engineering have similar/worse numbers it is still decent.

Obviously you have fields like teaching and nursing where you are more recession proof but compared to other corporate etcc
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Originally Posted By Vikes723⏩
government jobs . com

find a job for a county or a city and it'll be the most chill job of your life and a secure one.

Had a buddy looking for a job out here and he landed a county job clearing 6 figures and works from home lool
I work for the state government doing IT. Can confirm, it's slow paced and chill. They will never fire you unless you sexually harass someone or say something inappropriate. 8 years in but I'm looking to go up to federal now.
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Originally Posted By JeffPesos⏩
Damn OP sorry to hear that srs. We both got hired at around the same time. I'm at 5 months.

Either way, I would try to get hired by a huge corp.

My place can't keep people at all, but I guess not everyone is cut out for a 24/7 environment.

That being said, did you have anything that you could have added to your resume from this position?

Even if its just one project, I feel you could use that + back to the leetcode grind and get something better srs.

You never know whats around the corner. Could be something much better than getting laid off was bad.
I remember that we were pumped lol! I can only add training stuff to my resume and hope that they don’t ask if the training was an actual project
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Originally Posted By MrBourbon⏩
What’s your stack op
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Must be the industry the company you work for is in. In our IT department we have dozens of openings and cannot find people to fill them (hybrid 2 days work from home, 3 in office). Your mileage may vary I guess.
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Originally Posted By PShift5⏩
Worked hard for my degree for 6 years, get laid off after 3 months. Almost had my 10k goal saved up. Sucks man. They can’t find associate level guys any projects. The whole company structure is ****ed not hearing back from other jobs fml
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