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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by TootSweet@lemmy.world to c/justpost@lemmy.world
 

My employer just laid off a huge amount of the IT department where I work a year or two ago. I survived it, but today they announced they're going to require everyone to come back into the office. And coincidentally they're opening a new office in India. (Their first office outside of north/central America. And they do no business/sales in India and have no plan to start. Pay no attention to the fact that the going rate for labor in India is a fraction of a fraction of what we're paid in the U.S.)

It's painfully obvious that they're just trying to incentivize people to leave on terms that aren't considered "termination" for purposes of... say... unemployment benefits payment and such.

So, now I'm in the market for a job. It'll basically have to be full-time remote for reasons. And I super don't relish the idea of becoming a vibe coder. Nor job hunting in the current market.

Stressful bullshit.

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[โ€“] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On paper, Software Engineering. As in, writing software. Though, I'm a "tech lead", so kindof sortof "in charge", but (mercifully) not in a management sense. I don't directly write code so much. More like direct other folks on my team, design/architect things, and assist others with questions and obstacles in the coding they're doing. (Rather than being productive myself, more than anything I try to multiply others' productivity by helping them get past obstacles.) I also fill a lot of the role of agile coach.

[โ€“] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

This place, Java/Spring-Boot on Kubernetes plus Postgres, Redis, and some GCP. I also have front-end experience (though it's from a while ago, and we all know how quickly the front-end landscape reinvents itself, and I'm definitely more on the "front-end coder" side than the UI/UX side). I also have experience with AWS (mostly Elastic Beanstalk and ECS), Python/Django, and have written a lot of side projects in Go.