Layoffs are happening in big companies - Google, Apple, Oracle and now Wayfair lays off 900 people.
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Job market scene is changing every few months-
During Covid -
layoffs and job freeze
Post Covid -
- the great resignation phase
- too many job openings
- Quite quitting
- hiring freeze and layoffs
Ball keeps rolling between the employers and employees.
Cost cutting promises were not reached. Jobs being moved to other areas, so net net they can say they had no layoffs, but layoffs are coming by years end
Hello There. B.P. Head of IT Here.
I'd just like to tell you how happy this make me to hear that Google and Apple are having layoffs. Even it it isn't true, it can help me keep the minions in line. Fearful for their jobs and not willing to look elsewhere or ask for a raise.
And, if it is true, then maybe I can hire some of these Googlers and Applers. I've got 400 new positions in North Carolina that I need to fill before I have to start paying penalties for violating some promise to local governments.
But, it might be a tough sell, trying to recruit these Googler and Applers. Pay will be one problem, but freedom to work on things that you really want to work on and freedom to use the tools of your choosing are going to be a problem. At ML, you have to grovel just to get admin rights, and by gosh, don't try installing your favorite editor without getting the blessing of a committee of 40.
I've also got another minor problem. I am trying to switch my main IT vendors (basically to maximize my bonus before I jump with a golden parachute), but things are going so well. The old vendors employees surprisingly don't have much "employee engagement" as we in management like to say. And the new vendor isn't any cheaper.
So, it turns out that we desperately need some competent FTE to smooth this out before I pull the eject cord. Send any Googlers or Applers my way, and I could put as many as 4 overseas workers under them.
Thanks for listening.
I don't know why people are down voting @cdn when it is the truth.
Wayfair is just getting started, yesterday was the first round of engineers, management and HR. The next round is customer service and sales. That comes in October and then March of 2023 theres another round.
Neither Google nor Apple have laid off FTEs during this slowdown.
Google laid off FTEs at the start of the year, sure, but that's separate. Likewise, Apple only laid off contractors.