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Related question: are any actual software engineers getting laid off or is it just support/admin/management who work in the tech sector?

(I have been dealing with consulting contracts for software engineers lately, and was surprised to see that hourly rates are significantly higher than they were 5 years ago)

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Yes. Software engineers. Senior engineers. TLs. Folks with 10 years at the company. No one seems safe. Except executives probably.

The executives have already "suffered enough" with their stock compensation going down so much (eye roll)

If you read between the lines it appears Eyal Manor maybe was laid off/fired?

https://archive.is/INZea

Just a personal anecdote, but at my place of employment we had a wave of layoffs late last year. As part of the process 4 top-level execs "left", although I think saying they were "dismissed" is more accurate.

I am not certain, but it might have been nearly half the people at this level let go. And then there was a trail of layoffs all the way down the leadership chain. Of course the most people let go in absolute numbers are the individual contributors.

Yes, I know talented engineers from several companies that were laid off simply due to being unlucky enough to have ended up on the “wrong” project

Or maybe they are not so talented after all.

I mean we’re all just trading anecdotes but absolutely people that were fantastic were also let go by being in the wrong place. I feel I dodged a bullet with choice of project personally when comparing to two specific other people I know that were laid off.

Yes, I’m a senior engineer who was laid off. The company I worked for layed off 20% of engineering.

Software Engineers are being laid off for certain.

Yes. Google laid off several very high level engineers. Engineers that were likely making 7 figures.

Yes, DigitalOcean, who laid me off last week along with the entire writing/editing team for DO Community tutorials, also laid off some engineers, including most of the infra engineers, from what I heard. Not sure how they can get along without infra. Sheesh.

I think ChatGPT and the like is going to increase the efficiency of software engineers at all level, possibly obviating the need for entry-level coders.

Yes, coworker had 30 years under his belt. We were let go together.

Half the Engineering team at my company got laid off.

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