[HN Gopher] Google, GitHub, and Azure are freezing hiring effect...
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       Google, GitHub, and Azure are freezing hiring effective immediately
        
       Author : wooque
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-07-21 21:13 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | Sentino wrote:
       | Weird. Well running companies should use antycyclic to gain
       | further advantage to normal companies.
        
       | parsley27 wrote:
       | An interesting note in there about Meta not having a freeze on
       | Production Engineers. I think that engineers who are worried
       | about economic instability should consider moving closer to
       | production/delivery/sustainment/SRE; it's not always as fun as
       | building new features, but it is definitely a valued area of
       | expertise.
        
         | MattGaiser wrote:
         | Any recommended reading for those?
        
           | banashark wrote:
           | https://sre.google/ is a great resource
        
         | tester756 wrote:
         | What are the reasons behind the boom on DevOps/Cloud
         | Engineers/Admins 2.0?
        
           | dfjkdksjds789 wrote:
           | I'm curious on people's thoughts on the demand for them as
           | well.
           | 
           | From my perspective in doing infra / devops stuff, they exist
           | to make developers lives easier and faster (CI testing and
           | continuous deployment), or in the case of monitoring /
           | platform engineering, looking to "enhance" their
           | capabilities. Meanwhile the people who do both feature
           | development _and the bugfixes_ are product developers ... So
           | in my eyes it seems like the  "auxiliary pieces" like devops
           | people wouldn't be seen as core or necessary to the business
           | in the eyes of managers looking to lay people off
           | 
           | Older companies with poor engineering practices don't have
           | devops people at all, often times they don't even unit test
           | actually, maybe it would be a riskier position to be in
           | charge of those pipelines
           | 
           | Perhaps the data point of Meta still hiring SREs is just one
           | data point as well (they could just be in more need of SRE
           | people), although it is so hard to find more market wide data
        
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