[getToTheChopin]

The pendulum had swung too far in the direction of over-hiring. Now, many tech CEOs are taking a page from Musk's book and will push the pendulum towards layoffs and under-hiring.

When this results in tangible business issues (broken code / back-end systems, lack of new ideas and product innovation, products which don't sell themselves), I'd expect to pendulum to swing once more.

[cratermoon]

> broken code / back-end systems

Young programmers might want to put down the leetcode for a bit and spend some time learning about legacy code: how to understand it, how to fix it, how to improve it, and how to determine if it needs a rewrite. When the re-hiring begins, there will be a lot of code out there where nobody who worked on it is still around.

[mnky9800n]

Want to make lots of money and never run out of work? Learn cobol.

[danuker]

That'll happen when interviews will require refactoring code, rather than creating code from scratch.

[cratermoon]

https://github.com/emilybache/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata

[vinyl7]

> When this results in tangible business issues (broken code / back-end systems, lack of new ideas and product innovation, products which don't sell themselves)

That's how things have been for a few years already