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You Deserve A Pay Rise This Year
The software engineering market is nowhere near as bad as the new sites would have you believe.
The bigger tech companies are all over the news, once again, but this time with their firings, hiring freezes, and their predictably urgent “need to insure profitability” (though their balance sheets, of course, have never been greener) and there are several reasons for that — none of which have anything to do with the actual state of the job market itself.
Let’s take a look at why things are portrayed like this and how you, as a valuable and progressive, software engineer in the Grand Game can secure the pay rise you need to beat the current inflationary “cost of living crisis”.
The Three Pillars of Media Malevolence
Firstly, their overall inept, aggressively profit driven, and primarily short sighted management practices have caused them to over hire — both for vanity projects such as Meta’s ridiculous cartoon-like metaverse¹ and to hoover up talent in order to prevent their competitors from hiring those people instead .
Obviously, they are both tragic, regressive strategies — and to think us rank and file progressives once looked up to the original founders. There’s much merit in that saying that founders becoming CEOs/CTOs and hanging on for dear life is a very…
