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Thousands lose their jobs in deep cuts at tech giant Oracle (www.bbc.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 34 points 7 months ago* (15 children)

First, Epic, now Oracle.

I'm never gonna get another job in software, am I?

Edit: I physically let out a cry of pain after reading possibly 10,000 engineers of varying seniority had been fired (incident was reported on LinkedIn and judged based on the dip in Oracle's internal Slack membership count).

Yeah, I should just start trying to move into a new field, huh.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I trained as a clown at literal clown school. Everyone laughed at me and told me I should've been a software engineer. Well, no ones laughing now.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    The coal miners were told to learn to code, but maybe software engineers should be learning coal mining at this point. With all the AI data centers being built, there sure is going to be a lot of demand for coal.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    it's possible. just, if you are looking right now, don't expect the same salary you were getting. Be willing to take a minor pay cut, and be willing to take a service industry job just to get money. (that never touches your resume)

    I was in accounting and very underemployed when Arthur Andersen disintegrated. And then again for Lehman Brothers. It was rough, but I got through.

    the job search will destroy your soul. take breaks to keep yourself from doing things you will regret.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Minor pay cut?! Try 30% and no work from home. Companies smell blood in the water and low balling salaries across the board.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    oof i didn't think it was that bad, i hadn't looked at actual numbers. iirc folk were doing 15-20 cuts back during the crises i was dealing with. wfh was unheard of back then tho, so like i get where you're coming from.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The icing on the cake is that most of the offers are 6mo contracts, no benefits, with the option to hire or extend. This way the company can decide they don't really need the position in six months and walk away with no recourse.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    oh, the fuck you contractors special. i know those contracts. it's better to go work retail. they at least will give you benefits and stability.

    my outlook might be colored by some incidents but you may have better luck than i have on those six month shit contracts.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I don't know why software engineers being on lemmy, so are using activitypub, are so down and out about industry job cuts. Don't get me wrong, change of industry might be on the cards, but that doesn't mean being a software engineer stops, and these proof of concept sites and networks are a revelation.

    There are so many projects for software engineers. For example, Activitypub is the chance to develop a genuinely healthy market of small to medium sized networked social media sites that are far more reactive to users, unique, and experimental than the likes of engagement driven fb could ever be.

    I don't know, the rivers of gold might be over for a portion of 'big' tech software engineers, but it seems like a super exciting time to be in small enterprise software engineering, with the plethora amount of projects that could be being explored.

    Of course there are heaps of other non-social media software engineering small scale projects, i just focused on activitypub here because it seems so strange and obvious to a rando like me.

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