Dimensional Data

Welcome to The Long View—where we peruse the news of the week and strip it to the essentials. Let’s work out what really matters. This week: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation. 1. Layoffs for the recruiters themselves First up this week: Google’s hiring has slowed to such an extent that it has far too many in-house recruiters. Boo hoo? Analysis: Don’t shed a tear at task shedding I get it. Many reading this care little for the typical recruiter. All too often they seem like pointless brokers—adding no value to the process yet receiving a huge bonuses. But this news is the latest indication that DevOps jobs are harder to come by. Louise Matsakis has the scoop: Google lays off hundreds on recruiting team “Hard decision”Google is laying off hundreds of people across its global recruiting team as hiring at the tech giant continues to slow. … Workers who were laid off began learning their roles had been eliminated earlier today, according to posts on social media.…Google began reducing the speed of its hiring last year, after adding tens of thousands of workers in 2020 and 2021. … Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said, … “In order to continue our important work to ensure we operate efficiently, we’ve made the hard decision to reduce the size of our recruiting team.” Bring in the RecruitBot 4000. galaxytachyon explains: How likely is it that this is because of AI taking over the jobs? Sift through resumes, contact candidates, schedule some interviews, connect the hiring manager to the candidate, even getting some extra information from the candidate via email or phone calls are all things an LLM can efficiently do. They may actually do it even better than a regular human, since they might “know” more about the role and the technical requirements than an average [recruiter]. AI recruiters—and AI developers, too. Here’s Qbertino: I don’t expect those jobs to return. … After 23 years in IT I’m looking into a … career switch myself. Our industry is fully industrialized, custom coding is by now only for mostly totally broken legacy **** that will be replaced by SOA subscriptions within the next few years and what’s still left to code will be mostly done by AI quite soon I suspect.…Time to move on. It was an awesome ride but we’ve now finally built the bots that will replace us. Nice. This will spell more wealth for everyone in the long run even if we are out of cushy jobs with obscene salaries. When Google catches a cold, do other DevOps shops sneeze? Not in gijames1225’s experience: It’s weird being at a midsize company that has only accelerated hiring for engineers while the big players all go through these layoff cycles. The cynic in me sees them as token displays of fiscal responsibility being made for shareholders and a weird performativity of not wanting to be outdone by other tech giants. Another bit of me wonders about general productivity at these places if they can layoff so many people and nothing really appears to change (from a consumer perspective). All of which makes this Anonymous Coward wonder: I wonder what happens now to those who have threatened to quit or were reluctant to come in to physical offices. Meanwhile, u/saracenraider has questions: Do […]