Thread regarding Alphabet Inc. (Google) layoffs

I agree on all the points the original poster made. The Mag6 are getting greedier by the day. If you're putting your 401K money in anything but Large Cap Growth (Mag6), then you are probably in the red still. The S&P and Nasdaq has only been rising due to the pumping and not due to the true value of the company. Investing has become a big scam.

I think the real problem is American software developers trying to take our jobs. It should be illegal for a natural born citizen to apply anymore. Those days are over.

"I have no idea why you are whining about tv shows on Netflix or what that has to do with the job market."

You did not understand what the author clearly laid before your eyes: US companies hardly produce any value compared to the past. If Netflix or Facebook disappeared tomorrow life would go on, but not without what is being manufactured in China or Japan.

Most companies in the US produce only hype to drive up their stock price to make insiders rich. Should Microsoft's total market cap be equal to Great Britain's total GDP?! Or the top 7 Nasdaq be equal to Germany, Britain, France, India and more? This is how ridiculous the stock market has become with the blessing of the corrupt Fed.

So these companies like Google do anything to drive up their stock price, including layoffs to please their investors. That's what the author clearly stated regarding the effects on layoffs, which went beyond your head.

If Plumber gets penalized so, should IT.

That happened because there was a need to automate as much as possible. So much has been automated now. That combined with importing H1Bs and bringing women into tech will bring down wages and also a contractor-like job mentality.

Although well-intentioned, this post favors tech CEOs. There should be responsibility at the executive level, who over hired during the lock downs, and when things went slightly bad, all they had to do was layoff. Never forget Gates and other CEOs would constantly complain about a labor shortage, even though their intention was just to bring down wages.

I have no idea why you are whining about tv shows on Netflix or what that has to do with the job market.

@1ssb "All the while you still get paid"

And there lies the problem. Can be sloppy in your work in IT with no risk.
If Plumber gets penalized so, should IT.

Trade jobs are hard. If you're a a plumber and something you made/fixed breaks, you have to come back and fix it at no cost. Contrast that with your code breaking in production, at most a "no fault" COE. Or at the minimum it's just a bug report. All the while you still get paid.

It's time to leave Google and the entire IT profession and change careers. If you are good with your hands, can do math and have a good work habit you should look into the Skilled Trades jobs. Like Construction, Brick layer, Plumber, Coal Miner, Auto Mechanic, Diesel Mechanic, or Farmer. If you want to go into a profession you could chose to be a Fireman, EMT or Police Officer if you can shoot straight.

All these jobs pay well and there are tons of job openings in almost every city, large or small.

So what is your excuse? Would you rather continue to send out resumes blindly for jobs that don't exist or get a job in the Skilled Trades within days after applying.

A point you may add is Automation. Most companies and government firms/institution HR department aren’t really reading the resumes/cover letters in depth. A computer program with a model will rank them and present those within a certain range of metrics.

The irony here, there is a lot of discrimination being perpetuated, because the Models itself being used to train these machines are flawed with many biases from past and current realities. These tools are shielded with ambiguity and blindly followed as the definitively truth by recruiters. We are in a panopticon that exist virtually and in day-to-day reality.