[d675]

as I got into SWE 4 yrs ago, this was a big part of my job as a SRE/SDET and my next job came b/c of that SRE exp which was never used, so just became an SDET.

Now am laid off, and hard to find a job...

[xlii]

I'm sorry to read that.

Unfortunately it's an industry wide problem, and it touches many areas and levels of expertise. Some believed that AI can drop costs and compressed job spaces.

It starts to bounce off but it's not back to - what I could fall - normal baseline.

[d675]

yeah. Was always the jr on a team full of seniors/staff. Always switching context, so many verticals and systems.

True startups need only senior+ and big ones don't wanna interview often.

[wiseowise]

> Some believed that AI can drop costs

And it did! For companies, not for you.