9,388 engineers polled by Motherboard and Blind said AI will lead to less hiring. Only 6% were confident they'd get another job with the same pay.

Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse::9,388 engineers polled by Motherboard and Blind said AI will lead to less hiring. Only 6% were confident they’d get another job with the same pay.

    • 8000mark@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Although this surely does not completely explain the situation, I also have a feeling these sorts of hires surely account for a substantial number of layoffs.

        • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          As if the people making the firing decisions knew the people they fired and their “good attitude” before COVID.

          This is plainly just the financial class pushing back against recent advances in wages by inducing a recession.