If the Shoe Fits: Shock and Fear in Coder Heaven
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here.
Programmers in Silicon Valley are reeling.
What are they going to do?
No more clandestine recruiter calls from unicorn startups offering million dollar salaries, six figure sign-on bonuses, thousands of stock options and country club style perks.
And those graduating with CS degrees may find fewer startups bidding against each other for their services.
Not to mention layoffs. Layoff a programmer? Are you nuts?
Nope, that’s exactly what’s happening.
And, as an ex recruiter, all I can say is it’s about time.
Perhaps now candidate focus will return to the mission and the tech, instead of the dollars and bragging rights.
Because, in spite of the all the media coverage, there is a large number of programmers who don’t believe it will affect them — others, sure, but not them.
Of course, it’s hard when you’ve been the golden (mostly) boys and reality rears its ugly head.
But ask anyone in tech who has been around for awhile and they’ll tell you that change is constant and what goes up comes down — and eventually goes back up again.
Programmer jobs not excepted.
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