Category: Career

Do you know a company whose average score has risen sharply after layoffs? This is not an uncommon case, but in fact a target set for HR teams, which is being met in many different ways. In addition to the controversy around employer ratings, I'll also mention an interesting job offer leak and the stabilising situation of employees in startups.

We're back to career topics after a holiday and technical break. I hope you've missed my series a bit. And that you also don't want to keep reading about the "wave of layoffs in IT".

Indeed is the first such large HR Tech company to downsize its team and joins the other "recession symbols" in our industry. Nonetheless, we can look for consolation in the quite high (but declining) number of job offers for programmers and the freedom that comes with a home office. Well, unless you work for Apple...

The U.S. government will rescue former customers of Silicon Valley Bank, but its collapse has shaken the global startup market and the foundations of at least 10,000 companies. Now both large corporations and small organizations have problems. The mood is poor, and development budgets are shrinking.

Today I'd like to tell you about a startup that wants to use AI for purposes other than taking our jobs. Quite the contrary, it will help us find scarce skills and good deals (if everything goes according to plan). There will also be a story about the drop in demand for PCs and the answer why it's worth learning things that don't change.

Let's see if tech companies want to cut benefits due to the market situation. Then we'll visit the Dublin offices and Toshiba's Tokyo headquarters, where there are again invoice troubles.

Since you are reading this post, it means that working in IT is not a "marriage of convenience" for you. That's good! On the other hand, worse days happen to everyone, so today we'll talk about how to overcome them.

Meet Michael, who worked at Netflix for $450k a year and decided to quit. In addition to his story, we zoom in on Amazon's old/new recruiting strategy and recommend some great YouTube channels.

Are you updating your resume in Word again and thinking "God, for what sins"? After all, you have so many projects on GitHub! Maybe all you need to do is provide a link to get a new job? Before we check it out, let's see some opportunities in Big Tech layoffs and how AI is affecting recruiters.

Cutting costs and jobs at Google has a second bottom - the giant is facing a clash with AI tools, which pose a real threat to the search engine. Despite the large wave of layoffs in IT, let's remain calm. Although the layoffs affect many people, there are still hundreds of thousands of specialists working in Big Tech, and IT experts are quickly finding new jobs.