"My supervisor was telling us in stand up today and he said that he spent some time just looking at the first ~100 applicants or so and said that most are people laid off from FAANG, or people at unicorns, and they all have several years of experience. They already shut the post down because they were overwhelmed sorting through all the applicants.
This is for a mid-level position, I am not sure of the TC, it is fully remote.
This is crazy.
I even asked my manager if I could apply to it internally (I'm in DevOps / SRE and desperately trying to get out since my SWE skills are stagnating) but he said I didn't have enough experience which is fair since I am a new grad.
Have you guys seen the same at your companies? I guess I was mostly surprised at the quality of applicants.. usually I hear that maybe 5% would be good but it looks like the majority are actually really good."
Hundreds of thousands of layoffs in tech since last year, hiring + pay freezes, & it's only going to get worse as AI improves exponentially.
It's the juniors / entry level workers that get f*cked here.
Gen-Z was f*cked worse than us millennials, continuing this pattern of f*cking over the next generation started by the boomers. I do think the generation after Gen-Z will fare good tho because by then we'll have UBI. That is of course if we don't destroy the planet or nuke ourselves