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Anyone else dealing with this, hiring freeze for new devs but more work/projects? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am experiencing a bit of a whiplash here at work. To be fair, I am getting paid very well (and got a significant raise last year, that was good), but we have had positions be open for years now with no hiring. And we are having more and more projects being proposed without finishing the projects themselves. Its the classic they want to do more with less scenario. The top brass just announced a hiring freeze so new devs for a while.

The execs are floating the idea that AI can be used to replace or supplement the people leaving. On all of our propitiatory code-base/solutions....yeah that will go well.

So yeah anyone else dealing with this?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I am getting paid very well

You guys are getting paid well? what the heck am I doing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

For me: I did a LOT of contracting/small jobs at first and found im pretty good at anything that plugs into the wall. Then found out you can get paid if you just deliver reliably.

Also getting into a niche can help your $$. I did EDI for a bit and it helped later on. No one knows EDI (for good reason).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I haven’t touched an 850 or 856 EDI document in years and I‘m happy for that 😂

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