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Posted by enraged_camel 19 hours ago

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions(twitter.com)
https://xcancel.com/JosephPolitano/status/202991636466461124...

https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3mg...

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righthand 16 hours ago|
Did we ever leave the 2020 recession?
lich_king 18 hours ago||
This is the plot of the first derivative of employment. It shows a comparatively small but lasting dip after a massive, prolonged, and unwarranted boom between late 2020 and early 2024 that coincided with the dying breaths of ZIRP.

I have no idea about what's coming, but I wouldn't pay a whole lot of attention to people who are looking at the plots of a highly volatile and cyclic industry that goes through constant boom-and-bust cycles, and are trying to position this as proof that AI is or isn't having an impact.

johnnyanmac 18 hours ago|
Well I pay a lot of attention to the fact that there's much much tepid responses to applications I put out. Something something irrational markets.
eunos 16 hours ago||
After reading many anecdotes of top school alumni struggling to even secure some interviews, I'm really curious about what opportunities available for median American freshgrads e.g. 3.0 GPA from T100-200 Unis.
tokyobreakfast 17 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 22 minutes 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 17 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 17 hours ago||
How much do you think doctors make?
tokyobreakfast 17 hours ago||
Some make less than new grads at AMZN with 0 YOE.
caminante 17 hours ago||
> Some

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

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

tokyobreakfast 15 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.
wnolens 18 hours ago||
Anyone else's inbox slammed with recruiters, more than it ever has been in the past? Feels like there's 10x the jobs available, but perhaps it's just that LLMs have automated a recruiter's job and they're letting the slop fly
Ancalagon 18 hours ago||
Mine is too. Absolutely no outreach from the major players however. Mostly AI startups with a few larger/older SaaS startups sprinkled in.
__turbobrew__ 11 hours ago|||
I get lots of AI companies in my inbox, not much else. Surprisingly I got a bite recently because my linkedin says I have worked with eBPF.
sodafountan 17 hours ago|||
No, but it used to be.

What mediums are you using for recruiters to contact you? Do you have a linked-in or are you applying directly to recruiting companies? Are you active anywhere else?

Genuinely interested in how you're receiving so many recruitment emails. That used to be my go to way to hit the job market.

wnolens 13 hours ago||
I'm not applying at all! Happy employed and not looking. They're mailing me through linkedIn (i have a profile, and it's not set to looking and i'm completely inactive there), and or finding my email on the internet somehow and going direct.
alephnerd 18 hours ago|||
Depends on your geo. If you're in the Bay, NYC, and maybe a few other hubs hiring remains strong.

The "inshoring" hubs like RTP and Denver or those hubs that are dominated by a handful of oversized companies like Seattle are the worst impacted.

Sevii 17 hours ago|||
Nope its totally dead
albinowax_ 17 hours ago||
Mine is, but it’s AI generated slop from gmail addresses, for some kind of scam
gusfoo 16 hours ago||
Nota bene: these aren't "tech" jobs, these are "laptop job" over-hired email people. Not real people.
lgleason 15 hours ago||
So much for that golden age.
fn-mote 8 hours ago||
I have to say, this comment section is wonderfully full of very specific (low-bullshit) responses about projects people work on, both LLM-enhanced and otherwise.

It has been a pleasure to read.

Thank you for sharing.

coolThingsFirst 15 hours ago||
I can't even get an interview.

The most recent one few months ago and I passed it with great score, top 5% of candidates etc but that wasn't enough to get me hired.

Terrible market, i'm at my wits end to even how to approach this.

moomoo11 15 hours ago|
Good. Too many useless people got into tech because any monkey can memorize LC and outperform the monkey who also memorized LC and now is part of the interview panel so they can show off to the other monkeys that he deserves more bananas.

Tech was and still is the easiest way to make 200k base salary, before even thinking about the stock.

We need a reset and anyone who can’t make it can go fill the jobs we need in construction, education, etc.

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