#tech

Be prepared

Overheard in office
Managers and directors are preparing list
Any other info

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-in-its-ai-superintelligence-labs-6717116

Has anyone else heard that Doug is going to Apple to assist with their in-house AI program? A few people mentioned this during a meeting late last week.

Look what’s happening in tech - irrelevant stats being used to stack rank people because the people in charge don’t have actual strategic ideas. Measuring keystrokes and then showing “improvement “. Lol. Butts in seats. If you don’t trust your managers to manage and your strategy to measure what matters you have more problems than coffee badging. All the mistakes people made at their old banks are coming here.

Did Nvidia sell 10% stake at 0.01 per share ? No it's products are solid. This is betting the entire farm. Short term excellent but long term foolishness. Tell me I am wrong.

Up to 250 positions will be affected, as announced by Germany HR last week.
Tech LOB affected most with up to 90 positions.

Here it goes:

• AI can unlock sizable global productivity savings, driving more investment in compute, storage, and networking
• 85 percent of enterprises plan to move generative AI on premise, boosting demand for compute, storage, and networking
• Dell’s AI factory helps 3,000 plus enterprise customers deploy AI at scale
• As inferencing shifts to the edge, Dell can scale AI PCs opportunities
• Infrastructure Solutions Group is expected to sustain 11 percent to 14 percent CAGR over the next few years, led by AI servers, x86 servers, and storage
• x86 server growth should be supported by both higher units and higher average selling prices

https://www.barrons.com/articles/6-reasons-to-like-dell-stock-plus-draftkings-infosys-and-more-f16d0c81?mod=RTA

https://youtu.be/zcwqTkbaZ0o?si=9QKhLFHVKEhzAWqg

Sure, Cisco is integral to the future of AI.

Just look at how much this example AI datacenter relies on Cisco gear.

The writing is on the wall. Nothing!

We Are Cisco.
We Are Nortel; Part 2.

This time it's China again

http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/10/Another_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_This_Time_During_National_Day.shtml

Currently, I'm a tech support engineer for a Fusion team that supports an Oracle product for our customers. I don't want to go into too much detail, but no one seems to be worried, why??????? Are they stupid or is it just me that is realizing its time to look for something else.....
We have already lost a few members of our team, and while we have a lot of work and its draining, I feel that since they implemented their new AI support tool, our days here may be numbered.

I have a backup plan, but is it safe to assume that the layoffs are over in the US? Should I focus on upskilling and looking for something else? My gut tells me it might be time to leave Oracle.

So here’s what it is. Try to turn tech into a revenue generator by laying off a ton of people and licensing our technology with the new dept she created. Sorry folks that’s all you get when you pay someone $20 million a year. For $25 million you could have gotten a college graduate who learned AI by studying not by watching you tube. It’s Epic dude.

In tech. Recently there has increased visibility from leadership into our metrics/projects/etc. Our Jira boards and backlogs are regularly monitored and critiqued, and we've been told they are going to be averaging story point completion per person. Now they're asking us to track the specific skills we are using when completing each task. Is this happening anywhere else? Feels like a bad sign

https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/harger-washington-recession/4139846

https://www.altchar.com/game-news/xbox-handheld-reportedly-cancelled-as-microsoft-refuses-amds-10m-unit-commitment-aBH892X2KHCa

not worth competing with AI let us abandonIT tech careers and look else where for livelihood

TCS is generous - tech mahindra laid 50000 staff with jsut 2 month basic pay, mumbai media doidt utter a word

More layoff will come quarter by quarter.

Tech center is no longer working colleagues. They are your competitors and enemies
The stronger they get the faster you go, all go. See the logic ?
They are CHEAP LABOR. You are expensive labor. Canada, Europe, US, Singapore tech center is taking your career and one day you get VP/President from BTC/KLTC, game over. You now must know how to play the game.

Could someone tell me the job responsibilities of a fiber tech 2 position. Thanks

Google Cloud has laid off employees despite record-breaking financial results. Workers in user experience and design roles were among those affected, with several posting about the cuts on LinkedIn. Notifications were sent via email earlier this week.

The layoffs come as Google Cloud reported $13.6 billion in Q2 2025 revenue, up 32 percent year-over-year, with operating income hitting $2.8 billion, up 33 percent. The company holds 13 percent global cloud infrastructure market share, ranking third behind AWS (30 percent) and Microsoft (20 percent).

CEO Thomas Kurian recently emphasized the company’s $106 billion backlog and focus on operating discipline, saying Google Cloud is outpacing AWS and Microsoft in revenue growth.

The layoffs add to a broader industry trend, with more than 90,000 tech workers losing jobs in 2025 so far.

Paycom, Oklahoma City’s largest technology employer, is laying off over 500 workers as many of the positions are set to be replaced by artificial intelligence.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/information-technology/2025/10/01/paycom-layoffs-2025-workers-replaced-with-ai/86448337007/

Stop overselling yourself to your employer, quit legacy work instantly, insist on working on latest tech only. Ask them to use AI for old legacy maintennace work.

Tech jobs not worth holding on to Instead take deep look at how your earnings are going back into pockets of corporates and government - the overpriced loq quality home u bought, the over priiced car , the MRP marked up gorcery and Medicines, the status sysbol schools you send your kids to - wake up middle class, u signed up for slavery to look good among peers in society

No can keepup/stay ahead of AI - trick is to quit the tech job track en masse - who will they sell to in job loss growth scenarios.
The moment you do something AI could not do till that point of time, your employer's AI learns it as you do and you dont get next chance to do and become dispensible , AI does it for your employer next time. So skills will have extremely short market demand.

MST home dispatch tech use and abuse company assets. They drive 100K-200K bucket trucks to their home and back to their home garage everyday. Big V8 6.3 L engines use a lot of gas and insurance on top. Also, with MST high pay and only have .5 job per tech a day per tech how is that saving company money and liability.
There are rules to follow when joining home dispatch program. Following the rules helps save gas and time and wear and tear on a vehicle used to drive to work and to home. But MSTs abuse this program from driving to the garage every day and dispatching at the garage. Making a stop at the grocery store to grocery shop in the company vehicle before driving home. Not closing your last job at the job site and instead, drive home and being still dispatched on your work ticket and then closing the job when you arrive home. I follow the rules, and I do not want the home dispatch program to go away because of MSTs taking advantage of the abuse. Also, MST managers are favoring many MSTs and letting the home dispatch MSTs do what ever they want. STOP ABUSING THE HOME DISPATCH PROGRAM YOU MSTs. You know who you are...

https://www.itweb.co.za/article/sa-cannot-shrug-off-ongoing-job-losses-in-global-tech-industry/KzQenqjyz3zMZd2r

Probably a lot more. They just rely on slopfarms that talk about one particular wave while ignoring all other data points.

Just to have an Idea of how many people Intel is laying off as it is not clear the exact number. I would start with one of my friend's org. The Oregon list is not updated yet so no idea how many laid off.

SLM/TLM | #employees | Date | location
Lisa/Kismet | 10 | july 15th | OR, USA

On one hand they tell you to "specialize".

You then specialize.

Then they tell you those skills are no longer the ones they need.

So they fire you.

Then you try to find a new job, you realize the skills you had are not the ones they want because it's too specialized, so you re-skill.

But then they overlook you because you spent time not working or another "issue" (you were spending money and/or time re-skilling).

Can you ever make them happy?

It's an honest question and something I really want to know, so please try not to respond goofy :-)

New in office expectations stated for tech.

Don’t comply you’ll get fired. Pretty much it.

And the implied threat of we don’t we could go to 4 days in office.

F@@k this place.

i've applied regularly to the roles i see online but i haven't seen positive responses...

Anyone else notice that OneX su-ks on Sunday when the whole company is trying to do markdowns and fulfillment? Jeez Louise it's annoying!!!! And we've been getting weird errors on it saying it can't retrieve the info or whatever. Macy's tech is useless for these issues. They'll just ask me if I rebooted, used a new battery, or tried to reenroll it.
Ugh! Ok, off my soapbox now

Technology layoffs -

They will increase (substantially) into 2025 year-end, and into Early-Mid 2026 (and beyond).

Where (most) of the high salaries exist.

2025 (year-to-date) -

Layoffs - 539
Employees affected - 145,726
Number per day - 540

2024 -

Layoffs - 1,115
Employees affected - 238,461
Number per day - 653

Looks like the whole sales team was axed, and some tech support people were laid off too

1 day after the execs flew over from the US to tell us about how they were happy with the work and with the growing headcount. would have been more decent to just not say anything...

how is it looking in other locations?

https://mishtalk.com/economics/seattle-reeling-over-tech-layoffs-especially-microsoft/

Is that even possible? These are the numbers sent from their communications, sound like support will be gone from Oracle soon. This is such a high number.

From a company that care so much of their customers lol

The wave of mass layoffs by big tech (large technology corporations) that has continued since last year is shaking the economy of Seattle, Washington, one of America’s major “technology hubs.”

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-international/2025/09/22/WBP6SQYA7BBGDC7VLFIXGS7AZI/

How much Optum tech is layoff proof?