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That seems like the only lever these companies have to pull to increase the stock price.

Paywall, but it is clear that companies are literally starving for cheap labor. They are willing to do anything, including bringing over workers on potentially inappropriate visas ( I am not a lawyer, just what I have seen).

Honestly I am surprised that they didn’t just hire directly in India.

Exactly. They did learn from it -- and it is by far the best way to optimize around short term gains.

Just like people who join a company, grow the company to unsustainable bounds, then leave for the next company while the previous company struggles to maintain or fulfill previous obligations.

Probably get himself into a YouTube channel. I have noticed that with a lot of Excons and this very interesting.

That is a consistent problem with the education system no matter what the topic is with few exceptions.

I would expect them to rebound by building incredibly efficient ai optimized chips and embedding those into their future devices.

On a macro level apple has disappointed recently. I think the apple car was my biggest disappointment.

Being in contracting for software is rough. All the crap rolls down the hill to you from both the customer and internal stakeholders.

Sadly, even all the firefighting skills I learned in tech are not transferable.

The question is how to pivot to another job that is as personally and financially as rewarding as tech? Is a Masters degree the best bet?

I was previously at a public European company that was losing money. I was just a lowly engineer when they brought in a McKinsey consultant. A lot of the changes such as layoffs and cost cutting that came after the arrival was already common sense.

I think the company has at least stopped bleeding money. In my lowly position I did not notice any significant change.

I have experienced deteriorating conditions at other companies that accepted vc money then brought in their own people.

What’s more unethical than the bypassers is the so called detectors whose claims are dubious.

I had the same sort of reaction, even though I felt like the article was not intending to invoke that.

Looking back, when I was the age in the article I was way too insecure and nervous to be able to take this advice. Looking at it now I think it is great and want to set my children up with that way of thinking.

I am 34 and found the message inspiring.

Can you elaborate on this — or any evidence?

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Code quality is very subjective. Assuming you eliminate the extreme cases of poor code and great code, most people being average, the best thing to do is keep a talented team together as long as possible. The team will accrue knowledge slowly at first but will produce dividends later on as they will have the best knowledge of the system.

Excluding extremely poor situations it is domain knowledge that drives defects, not the code.

Or 421 perhaps ?

It’s odd that it only affects men. Is it possible that men just spend more time with these hobbies ?

Hey, I am fine. Thanks for checking in. I really do appreciate it.

My primary issue is that thirty years ago jobs that you could take, such as my wife’s family did, such as minimum wage jobs could lead to you having a house and living with dignity. The majority of jobs created today do not seem to offer that for the reasons I stated above.

I wish there were reasons to be optimistic here but we have to be realistic. I believe the numbers they are telling us are accurate. I also believe the numbers would be historically good, but the reality does not feel like it.

If purchasing power and minimum wage had kept up to pace then unemployment would not be so low.

Though the numbers mean the same they have been artificially influenced by other factors and the ability to measure the economy through unemployment has been nerfed.

Not to mention attrition is higher than the past so the jobs that are being created could be largely recycled.

Sounds like stakeholders are expecting waterfall guarantees without the overhead of proper planning and refinement.

Honestly, the industry should move back to waterfall.

Honestly, do people really believe the unemployment rates, or take them at face value?

The real rate of employment is much worse. Not to mention that pay has not kept up with inflation. What would the employment rate look like if it had?

Many low paying jobs are being created and since pay has not kept up it is barely a living wage.

I can’t wait until they replace pilots with remote workers in a low cost of living area.

That's definitely a fair point. However, that knowledge should live with other members of the team and it can be helpful for QA to have less knowledge of the system. How can that be helpful ? -- so they can view the systems through the lense of a typical end user.

I feel like qa is generally the easiest thing to outsource and will have the least impact.

Why outsource to Europe at all at this point — many cheaper options.

I’m not sure why this even has to be said. Is it a standard to update toc without notifying people who agreed to it originally?

I am sure generative ai will be able to cure cancer after humans figure it out then post it to the internet.

Because you want to maximize your profit and get the most from your investment. You also want to see, generally speaking, if it is even reasonable that anyone would to rent out your house at that price

One person with domain knowledge of running things could be well worth it. How many times have you seen adding more people just make it a bigger, more unsustainable mess?

Granted 56 billion is a lot.

Thanks. That provides much better context.