Sinister-Mephisto t1_izf0f8w wrote
It’s an engineers market right now, employees are desperate to find talent anywhere and are trying to work with multiple types of recruiters and are paying out the ass for it.
BasilExposition75 t1_izf2q0a wrote
Don't these recruiters see jobs and just try to match up people to them? Not even sure the MBTA hired "Indian Recruiters"...
TakenOverByBots t1_izg4zz8 wrote
Not to be a total snob (but okay, maybe) but IT is not engineering.
lunisce t1_izgbnbz wrote
IT is not engineering, but IT can contain engineering roles. Software engineer, network engineer, systems engineer, etc
app_priori t1_izfkoj6 wrote
Really? Despite the layoffs that have been happening everywhere recently? I'd say with government issues it's more a matter of pay; their pay scales are smaller and more inflexible and a lot of recently laid-off IT workers would rather take unemployment for a while than to work for half their previous wages.
smc733 t1_izfrl2f wrote
You’re seeing isolated layoffs in big tech (IIRC around 150k), that’s not IT, and is a drop in the bucket in a job market creating 300k+ jobs per month. That’s like letting a small amount of air out of a balloon.
app_priori t1_izfs7ky wrote
A trickle that can turn into a flood. Pepsi is laying off people despite doing great business lately too.
smc733 t1_izfsgik wrote
Can, but right now isn’t. I am a director in IT at a mid to large organization, we can’t find qualified candidates.
Sinister-Mephisto t1_izft7vr wrote
I'm not at a director level, but I can't tell you how many different guys I've had to interview for positions that put languages on their resumes but didn't know how to write a line of code when I asked them to demonstrate.
RikiWardOG t1_izftdly wrote
Just out of curiosity what type of positions are you looking for?
Codspear t1_izg3kx1 wrote
What positions?
Sinister-Mephisto t1_izha79y wrote
Usually devops
chucktownbtown t1_izg87yo wrote
Pepsi employs over 100k people in the US, and is laying off hundreds. Less than 1% of their headcount.
An enterprise organization has 5-10% turnover monthly anyway.
Pepsi was a click bait headline.
Sinister-Mephisto t1_izftkr6 wrote
There's a lot of different types of workers in the the tech sector. Somebody who works the help desk, is different from a network engineer, is different from a front end dev, who is also different from a full stack / backend dev, who is different from a sec analyst, who is different from a sysadmin, etc etc.
There is still a huge demand.
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