On: The developer job market is insane

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> Not sure I follow this distinction.

When you see it, you'll know it.

> Who are all the people companies like Meta, Alphabet, Amazon are firing?

A lot of them were in "tech-adjacent" positions. PM, tech recruiters or evangelists, community managers, DEI folks... At one point one layoff announcement had "returning to a healthy ratio of engineers to non-engineers" as a goal.

> Are you talking about civil engineers?

No. Software engineers.

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> A lot of them were in "tech-adjacent" positions.

Do you have more info on that? Of course a lot of tech adjacent were let go but R&D was cut back as well as far as I can tell.

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Keep in mind big tech companies do layoffs every year for poor performers.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo...

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te...

[2] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0...

[3] https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics...