from Hacker News

Tech workers had their pick of jobs for years. That era is over for now

by nataz on 1/8/23, 5:25 PM with 8 comments

• by autodev1 on 1/8/23, 5:47 PM

  Good ol' unfounded click bait headlines. Gotta love 'em :).

  I didn't read the article.

  Washington Post is almost always worthless as an unbiased source of useful information.

  I went straight to a reliable source of data: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  "Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers"

  Job Outlook, 2021-31 25% (Much faster than average)

  https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

  "Information Security Analysts"

  Job Outlook, 2021-31 35% (Much faster than average)

  https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

• by getToTheChopin on 1/8/23, 5:37 PM

  The pendulum had swung too far in the direction of over-hiring. Now, many tech CEOs are taking a page from Musk's book and will push the pendulum towards layoffs and under-hiring.

  When this results in tangible business issues (broken code / back-end systems, lack of new ideas and product innovation, products which don't sell themselves), I'd expect to pendulum to swing once more.

• by 71a54xd on 1/8/23, 5:54 PM

  How's that job market going for journalists?

  Right, markedly worse than engineers for a skillset that will literally be engineered out of existence except for journalists with true talent (as someone who does genuinely love reading independent journalism and long form content from the New Yorker).