Corporate Culture and Career Advancement
15 min
Lifeboat Ethics: Why There Is No Longer Room for Everyone in IT
The era of "free money" and hiring in reserve has ended. The endless growth has been replaced by survival mode, where every employee is either a rower generating profit or dead weight. Why is Big Tech laying off thousands of people while stocks are rising? Who are the "useless class" of programmers and how is AI changing the rules of the game?