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Weird how even in this comment section, forming a union was never mentioned
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Submitted 1 week ago by DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That’s banned in most states, even though banning it is illegal
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To hell with the law, workers united can never be defeated
udon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, you did, comrade
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Pray to Luigi
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Be the change you want to see!
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“Stealth AI Startup”
Gotta say, couldn’t pick a less sympathetic person for the screenshot.
I think the trump HB1 visa thing has put a nail in this coffin for people in the tech industry. You have to compete with people who get paid 40% less and will be deported if they take a day off. If they made it so visas required prevailing wages and had better protections it would be less of a problem…
Not to mention programming is easily outsourced so wages heavily depend on things like relative education costs. All of which are likely to be less favorable while the country is being dismantled by an oligarch.
sacredfire@programming.dev 1 week ago
I don’t feel like the H1B is as big of an issue as outsourcing is. The company that I was just laid off from also laid off all the H1Bs and outsourced pretty much every junior role to India. I’m hearing about this in a lot of other companies as well. While this is anecdotal, it seems to me that with the rise of remote work, it proved that out sourcing was very viable. India has a huge talent pool of highly skilled engineers, who can speak English and are willing to work for pennies on the dollar. I’m not sure where AI plays part in this. Perhaps, it allows those outsourced developers to provide higher quality code faster than ever before, but I have no way to prove that.
Either way, it’s pretty much a blood bath in tech right now, not sure what to do myself. Considering going back to my old career.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The problem is even accounting for exchange rate, you get what you pay for.
Dangerhart@lemm.ee 1 week ago
My company is absolutely taking advantage of the H1Bs. They just did a huge round of “move to head quarters and take a pay cut or leave with severance”. Anecdotal, but it seemed to mostly target H1Bs. Every single one I know said they basically have to or return home because they don’t know if the government will even function to processes new sponsorships if they found one.
DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yup There’s going to be a whole lot more almost people too. Because there’s no no refilling program in the USA. What are you supposed to do if you have a Masters in computer science and 5 years of experience? You can’t just go back to college for a 60K degree in nursing or become an electrician or something…
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 week ago
At this point I’m glad I’m a janitor and AI doesn’t mop floors…
And I feel sorry for anyone who take those “LeARn To CoDe” nutters seriously when they gave that as advice on how to leave poverty.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No. Education will always remain the way out of poverty. And regardless, no “AI” can replace actual programmers at present. Their code and code quality are entirely unreliable and not suitable for serious, production use. They may be sufficient for hobbyist applications, but for software that is actually getting deployed, LLM outputs vary too widely, and you will always need experienced programmers to monitor them and correct errors. Also, an AI can not come up with a coherent design principle for you, the individual modules and moving parts it spits out will invariably fail to work together at scale. Creating software is much more than just churning out code. It requires advanced reasoning and specific knowledge, and AI is not there yet, and who knows if it ever will. All companies that are firing (or not hiring) programmers over current day LLMs are going to fail.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Communism is also a way out of poverty
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Same here. I’m so glad I got out of IT and software dev right now. I’m a refrigeration tech and my job isn’t going anywhere. As long as people need to make things cold or hot in my area then I have a job.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why is the Stealth AI Startup LinkedIn guy talking facts?
DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Every now and then they regurgitate truths to get the broader audience to tap in. Then they say some bullshit like the 2nd half about doing a side hustle moonlighting and saving costs.
jrs100000@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because this is more AI hype. You just have to read this from his target audience’s point of view. Because of AI your competitors dont even need employees anymore. Why hasnt this happened to your company? Because you didnt have the right AI suppliers and gurus.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
your spend
Nothing says “coke-addled car salesman” like “the spend”. I wish self-respecting humans would quit that.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I am an Uber driver. My day started at 5:30 am. I woke up in my car this morning about 5:00 am, bought a coffee, and got started.
My day will end in about 20 minutes when I finish my second charge of the day (renting an EV). Then I will go home and shower since I haven’t had a chance yet.
I’m $267 richer as a result of my 16 hour day. Well, less than that once you figure the price of the juice to charge the car, and my food.
This is fucking hard, but it beats the last job I had, where staff was being cut and management refused to acknowledge that we were all doing the jobs of 2-7 people depending on the day. That might have only been eight hours a day but psychologically it was torture.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are probably efforts to organize and unionize ride share workers in your area. You should look for them and join the fight.
Jumi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I honestly feel sorry for you guys but holy shit, am I glad I’m not over there.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
You should tailor your resume to every job you apply for, but not every job requires a different resume. If you’re applying to a bunch of the same positions then you don’t need to change anything.
sleepmode@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can confirm the first part. But then he says if you have too much experience you get less bites. And late night calls without more pay are an issue. Then tells us to “upskill” and have a “side hustle.”
A bit contradictory.
thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Can confirm times are hard. I work at a tech company and every role in engineering gets >100 applications the day it goes live.
My advice - go to events hosted by those companies, get to know the people who work there and find ways to help them. Then get them to refer you for roles.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The more experience you have, the more difficult it is becoming
That seems logical to me. There are fewer senior level positions, and if your skills are rising to that level you’re competing with all of the others that are as well. Fewer chairs remaining for the same number of candidates.
Also, I can say that I almost never hire folks just by posting for a job. At the senior level its so important to get a candidate that actually knows what they claim because the consequences of finding out they don’t on the job are too great. This is where we reach into our networks so that any candidate comes with word-of-mouth recommendation from someone we trust.
I don’t know why it is somehow socially acceptable to talk about a candidates faults in these word-of-mouth recommendations, but its considered poisonous from raw interviews. A perfect candidate doesn’t exist, or if they do they can likely make way more doing an even more expensive project. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and if your strengths are strong enough for the particular gig, and your weaknesses aren’t too bad for it, you get the gig.
At least in my industry who know (because they themselves are trustworthy and can vouch for you) is potentially more important that what you know. This is why you’re told to network with others.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 week ago
At the senior level its so important to get a candidate that actually knows what they claim because the consequences of finding out they don’t on the job are too great. This is where we reach into our networks so that any candidate comes with word-of-mouth recommendation from someone we trust.
I never thought about this but yes, this is whu networking is super important. It is said that about 91% of hirings are through network. And speaking from practical experience, I can corroborate that most of my jobs had been from connections. I distinctly remember my first proper job in my field, and it was through happenstance bumping into an old friend who recommended me to apply for a role in his previous company. I think I would not have gotten that job had I not met him and did not mention to recruiters about him.
phar@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I know this is anecdotal but I am regularly trying to hire entry level, no more than highschool required, at $18 per hour starting. We get interviews set up and they just don’t show up. No text, no email, no call saying, “thanks for the opportunity but I chose something else.” Just don’t show up. I don’t get it.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s the new game. Companies stopped replying. There’s no confirmation they even got your resume. They ghost you after interviews.
It’s not your fault that loads of other companies treat applicants like shit. But they do, so applicants stop caring.
But also, if people aren’t engaged, your salary is too low.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Whatever it is in gray below his nick, that’s just red flag after red flag.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Rent is most of my budget. What else am I supposed to do?