1. Blind made people brag/ humble brag about their net worth and tc (even inflating figures) 2. Blind encouraged others to apply for tech jobs after doing boot camps and leetcode 3. I personally interviewed a bunch of waiters and bartenders and FC folks for SDE jobs at Amazon 4. Now they hired too many and are laying off people. 5. Of course other factors are there as well but I feel strongly that this app had a huge role to play as well.
Narrative fallacy
Could you elaborate on this? I am curious how is OP’s narrative incorrect.
Because they have the wrong impression of how supply and demand works. A huge supply of "developers" does not mean there will be demand for them. This is further evidenced by the fact that the huge supply did not push the cost of labor down. Instead it went up. This means demand went up. hiring decisions and strategic planning drove up demand. The supply increased to meet that demand. If anything, the overhiring is what caused Blind to become more popular.
The Big Bang causes layoffs indirectly
I need another bang
The layoffs causes layoffs indirectly
#4 is not because of blind. Then the argument fails.
The layoffs are caused by overhiring, which was a leadership decision. Blind is a tech industry app, not many restaurant waiters on here.
And people in blind didn't make the leadership hire more.
So you're telling me that Amazon is the #1 place for boot campers.... Why didn't you start with that!! Do you know how many people are looking for jobs! What an asshole hiding the best advice to new developers looking for a great job
You spelled TikTok wrong
This. Influences encouraged anyone with a pulse to "break into tech" regardless of bg or skillset.
This. and because of that everyone wanted that “bag” with the least amount of effort. I understand I may be laid off too, but I welcome the shift that makes influencers go away to something else. Yeah tech isn’t that great sorry! bye!
Same feeling
so you think supply of (qualified?) people drives demand by employers? why?
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I do agree with the first point. Salary inflation. Blind+leetcode salary discussion+wfh(giving interview became easy +multiple offer) So many influencer came out during this phase.
Probably You Tube, Insta and TikTok had more impact. I don’t think blind has more than 100k users, where as Day In Life Videos has over Millions of Views.