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Ex-interviewer here. The new gen doesn’t prep before interviews and it’s exhausting. (Blind)
- Gilliane (ex-Oracle): Yet somehow interviewers like you end up passing the candidates that cheat with ai or memorize g0thamloop
- Union Find (Google): Isn’t it better if candidates don’t prepare for the interview? That way you can select who can actually do the job instead of who gamed the interview. I’m Gen X and I don’t prepare either.
- SatanY (ex-Microsoft): If you expect candidates to “prepare” for your interview, you are interviewing wrong and you are the reason why the industry became shit. You are a shitty interviewer, and not surprisingly you work for a shitty company. I also bet your best candidates who “prepared” are circle jerking with you because you are all so prepared.
Yet…
Your fellow “prepared” candidates are not building anything good . They are horrible teammates. They are entitled. They are the worst people you could work with.
Yet…
You keep hiring them, and they keep hiring you.
You are the problem.
Is this the end of SW? (Blind)
- AKuO41 (Amazon): This means these companies need to offer something that vibe coded apps cannot, meaning they need to hire more product people
- Microstiff (Microsoft): Honestly, having been inside multiple companies all spearheading the AI hype, I can tell you that despite how good AI has become, it’s way too economically detrimental to truly replace SWEs any time soon.
The layoffs are a financial masking to hide the failures of adoption, and the execs at every company running AI adoption programs are pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to tell value stories from their efforts.
In my home, sure, a \$200/mo subscription can let me spin up 5 SaaS products in a weekend. In corporate culture, there’s no \$200/mo enterprise plan, and no one can just freely push AI code to production. PRs are still human (because someone has to be accountable..SOX), so there’s never going to be significant productivity gains without high risk and loss of reliability.
We’re just caught in the middle of a shell game where everyone in charge realizes they’ve made a mistake going all-in on AI too fast, but no one wants to be the first to say it out loud because of the stock market repercussions. So we buy time with layoffs and hope someone else takes the leap first. 🙂 - quickslt (Amazon): figma is useless chatgpt can make the whole concept
Most scummy layoff I’ve experienced (Blind)
- AF2 (Nike): People shouldn’t assume there’s anything wrong with OP. When you get laid off, you take whatever is available on the job market. The roles that are easiest to get, hence most people take, are the ones that are most unstable or in companies with highest turnover. Most people that are happily employed don’t quit, so the best positions tend to not be available for job seekers.
- b8ml9: OP sorry this happened to you and your colleagues.
But Canva is a dead company. The world has chosen AI slop for graphic design, at least for now. We are in a time of really shitty transition and a lot of companies will be left in the dust. We have seen it with Squarespace just this past week.
If anyone is working by a company that sells products that can be replaced by prompt slop, start looking now. Don’t listen to internal corporate propaganda, customers will ALWAYS choose cheap and shitty when cost of living is out of control. - 747291065 (Squarespace): I heard Canva execs hired LinkedIn influencers/bots to shill what a “masterclass in layoffs” they did and how generous their package is. To hear that it’s all a PR sham disgusts me. 🤢
What’s going on in tech? (Blind)
- Hella! (ex-Spotify): To this add that one 3 day leave or getting sick or pregnant can mean lifetime of unemployment. Absolutely, inhumane workplace practices.
- rhydon1x (Capital One): Restarts looking for an easy payday learned the hard way and now are sticking it out because they’re too stubborn to admit they made a mistake coming to the field
- WFPS88 (Amazon): 500k TC just to prompt Claude, it’s so over
Megathread: LeetCode vs. AI-Assisted Coding by Company (Blind)
- iDKT82 (Bloomberg): Bloomberg just swapped from Leetcode to AI assisted
- oapz (LinkedIn): LinkedIn is 1 round of each
- LxoE67 (Amazon): Amazon has both rounds