Two weeks ago, our company, e commerce, announced we will be implementing salesforce for our crm. Basically most of backend engineers aren’t needed as much anymore. The week later, entire engineering org is shuffled to new projects. The week after that, entire Dublin office is laid off(50ish). Well, they are under consultation due to EU law, but basically fired. Couple engineers in US office started to leave. Sad part is the business side of the company is deciding everything, our engineering leadership were all let go before all this took place. If you are looking for engineering jobs, take a real good look at the leadership of the org before you join. Their values in tech determines a lot of future outcomes. I had to learn this the hard way.
Automation is taking over SDE jobs now.... oh dear ....
Go to Salesforce then, all 50 of you, show up with resumes in one hand and pitch forks on the other.
Walmart is actively hiring in Dublin
Baggers or just cashiers?
Go to a software based company - they’re always looking for engineers to progress their solutions. Basically what @DeepObsess said but applicable to the entire industry - SalesForce, Workday, Snowflake, Oracle, AWS, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, etc.
Yes leadership drives your career or change job if don’t like leadership within company.
Where there really like 50 people keeping Notepad++ notes and Outlook reminders about following up on customer deals?
Yeah apply to salesforce. No one gets fired here unless you did something really really bad
Unlearn to code
Really sorry to hear about the layoffs, that sucks. But they will have no problems finding a job elsewhere. Gilt Groupe? Didn’t they just get sold to another retailer, again? It is sad whenever people get laid off , but e-commerce doesn’t need tons of engineers or staff like it used to And yes business side does decide everything - that’s their job. If salesforce can sub what 50 engineers were doing - someone at Gilt was empire building - and no wonder the company was struggling. And if the e-commerce platform was custom, why keep a staff onboard to keep improving it when its far easier to buy an off the shelf solution that is guaranteed to work well. Business 101- focus on the mission Like selling clothes. Gilt isn’t a software company, it’s a marketing company. ) The engineers will be better off going to a company that is doing something innovative in software or tech. Like go to the moon or mars or something. It’s an opportunity
Thanks for this comment, really helps a lot. I will definitely be jumping companies soon. This was my first job out of college, so it must more about getting a job then evaluating things like the business. My next move will be a software focused company where engineers are more valued.🤞