Everyone on my team is acting like it’s the end of the world, and I’m just over here doing fine. I haven’t even been here long enough to get severance, and I’m still not panicking. It’s a job, not your identity. If it ends, you move on. Most folks here will get severance, so it’s not like anyone’s getting thrown out with nothing. So what’s with the constant anxiety?
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It took me a year to find a job when I was already employed at netapp. Good Luck all
Matt Watts was just another talking head riding the gravy train like Shiek.
"Why don't you wish in one hand, sh*t in the other, and see which fills up first."
- Billy Bob Thornton, Landman
You know I never understand why the billionaires fear also... about their money, even full it's never enough, do whatever it takes to accumulate again and again.
I think giving too many shares to CEO can have a negative impact because he will drive with the share price confusing the end with the means and shorter term vision that destroy the whole ecosystem and the communities they live in : shares buyback with the company's money (like Apple and Google...), layoffs for better ratios, indicators becoming objectives for themselves...
To the original poster=wake up dude!!
Corporations are "serving" employees after shareholders and customers. When situation are getting difficult, they just adjust on the human resources. We're just pawn in this game.
I really don’t understand the constant fear around death too, you'll know you'll get through it anyway and you don't care about any layoffs too.
You don't really know how long it takes to get a job. Imagine if you have a car accident and don't have health insurance. Common takes I see here which can distort your view.
"I am a new grad and I am getting Online Assessments, intro hiring manager interview, etc" Most companies have a new grad intro level program, let us see for associate. Seniors are usually 5+ years if less than you are in a trouble atmosphere.
"AI is just a glorified stackover flow and can't build large scale enterprise programs"
While true it doesn't, it does help develop small snippet files and bash files for scripting. What this causes is gets rid of SDET and QAs and entry level swe since it is great for minuscule tasks.
"Its overblown echo chamber like reddit r/csccareers"
To make the math easier. Lets say the market has 500 openings at the moment, but 1000 NetApp engineers are laid off. NetApp offshores some jobs, opens a few back up for cheaper labor which we give 250. So there are 750 jobs in the market for 1000 engineers. Now scale it up when Intel, Cisco, Google, Microsoft and others are doing it. That is why some people mentioned it is an exaggeration since they caught the job opening and found a job at the right time while others with networks are not hiring.
If you're single or live in a developed country, it's probably not that much of a concern. If you have a family depending on you, however, and you live someplace that ties your availability and quality of health care to your place of employment, then losing your job is a big deal.
OP is an insensitive POS.
Health insurance? Mortgage payments? Car payments? Liabilities? Supporting your spouse, kids, parents?
All of that takes money. If you pull the plug on someone’s job, it’s not the best time to try and find a new job right now. Severance will only last so long.
I can't really tell if you're naive or just plain stupid. I would highly encourage you to do an "experiment"; try applying to any job openings you can find and see how many interviews or job offers you get. No matter how skilled you think you are, you'll quickly realize that the job market is not great and that the economy is getting worse every day. There's too much uncertainty and tech companies will continue to layoff people. There will be thousands of people with your same skills competing for the same job. Now, regarding NetApp, a lot of the people who designed, built and knew exactly what made NetApp attractive to customers have left or been laid off. I know of at least a dozen senior engineers / architects who decided to leave and join competitors. That should make you and everyone else anxious.
According to LinkedIn - Matt Watts is Opentowork - really, if people like him are going it makes me wonder - He has been Mr NetApp for 20 years or more - is the Company just becoming a tin shifting organisation with no value add
Older folks are worried about not easily being able to find another job, especially in a down economy.
So why are you posting here? You’re in the denial stage.