Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

Posted by enraged_camel 1 day ago

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weird_tentacles 22 hours ago|

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djkbjhrdn 22 hours ago||

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djkbjhrdn 22 hours ago||

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byronic 21 hours ago||

yes, ha ha ha... yes

romulussilvia 15 hours ago||

They want everyone to chine/indian wages!

gusfoo 20 hours ago||

Nota bene: these aren't "tech" jobs, these are "laptop job" over-hired email people. Not real people.

tokyobreakfast 21 hours ago||

This industry is a race to the bottom and long overdue for a massive salary reset. There is no society on Earth where someone who codes JavaScript (poorly) should make more money than, say, a doctor. Yet here we are.

lp4v4n 4 hours ago||

>The median salary for a urologist in the United States is approximately $590,000 per year as of March 2026. Most urologists earn between $550,000 and $630,000 annually.

This guy really thinks doctors make 120k/year.

honeycrispy 21 hours ago|||

A lot of doctors are just pill prescribers. I can't tell you how many times I've been to useless doctors that don't help and give you a big fat bill on the way out the door.

caminante 21 hours ago||

How much do you think doctors make?

tokyobreakfast 21 hours ago||

Some make less than new grads at AMZN with 0 YOE.

caminante 21 hours ago||

> Some

You're really playing loose with the Venn diagram here.

Only "some" Amazon SWEs would "code JavaScript (poorly)."

tokyobreakfast 19 hours ago||

Yet they're all expendable because their chosen skills are not essential for society to survive. They could all disappear tomorrow and the web and everything around it would move on.

chazburger 4 hours ago|

I haven’t hired anyone this year, and expect our existing SWE’s to work and not spend time commenting about useless stuff online. Those who produce will get rewarded with amazing pay and company stock, those who sit around and whine get let go.