AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

17 points by iamflimflam1 1 year ago | 4 comments

Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

569 points by throwarayes 4 months ago | 495 comments

A Pragmatic Engineer newsletter deepdive by Gergely Orosz reporting on how Meta leadership's AI-driven changes are affecting its engineering organization.

Lessons from bootstrapped companies founded by software engineers(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

75 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 28 comments

Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs(leefang.com)

232 points by AndrewKemendo 3 years ago | 136 comments

What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

76 points by saisrirampur 3 months ago | 81 comments

AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

59 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 71 comments

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions(twitter.com)

954 points by enraged_camel 7 months ago | 633 comments

A post on X by economics writer Joseph Politano claiming tech-sector employment is now worse than during the 2008 or 2020 recessions.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity(fortune.com)

725 points by virgildotcodes 8 months ago | 637 comments

Fortune article on a survey of thousands of CEOs reporting AI had no measurable effect on employment or productivity, reviving the Solow productivity paradox.

Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions(nytimes.com)

765 points by gumby 2 years ago | 894 comments

New York Times article reporting that Google laid off hundreds of employees in engineering and other divisions as part of cost-cutting.

LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees(npr.org)

341 points by cebert 3 years ago | 285 comments

NPR business article from October 16, 2023 reporting that LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees.

Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta(nytimes.com)

524 points by pretext 3 years ago | 726 comments

New York Times article on how mass layoffs and absent leadership have created a morale crisis among Meta employees; the capture shows a Google sign-in page.