This post is my personal opinion and I am open to discussions and thoughts. Recruiters are the folks who get the right set of candidates/skillsets on the table. At its inception, they are the people who help a company grow if they get the right folks join the organisation. They are the first folks that bias us towards the image of a company. I personally get the first image of the culture of a company, talking to the recruiters. That’s the first company representative you talk to. They stick with you through the interview process and until you sign the offer. There are some gems out there and i respect this profession a lot, require tons of human skills to find the right guy/gal worthy of being interviewed, interviewe’s times also cost to the company. Having all this said, I find it very very unfair that despite being so much important to our industry, they are the first ones to laid off!!! Often times the only ones to be laid off, thrown under the bus. This is sad state of affairs. I think there are couple of things to reconsider here - 1. When the market is cold, get the recruitment team to work on something where they can be easily trained. 2. Their salary shouldn’t be fixed. It should have a fixed component plus an additional “significant” bonus component that they get based on the profiles they hire. Like X for a SWE 1 then 5X for a principal engineer. I believe this will give them a better financial backing to cope up with market situations like the ones right now? I’m someone from Eng & some of us would love to help the recruitment community. How can we help you all to voice up on your behalf or make the situation better for you? #mentalhealth #recruitment #layoffs #engineering #jobsecurity
Recruiters are just like everyone else. If there is no need for them then no point paying them. Same for training why train someone when they can hire someone who will be productive from day 1.
No one is as important as investors, top level stake holders and their money. All that matters in the end is if they can make profits or exit as soon as possible reducing losses. Let me tell again. No one is as important. If the CEO starts thinking about employees well being during crisis he will be the first one to lose his job. This just trickles down to peasants like SDEs, SDMs, PMs etc who don’t have a say in the process. Work for your employer and do justice to whatever they are paying but always be loyal to yourself first. If anyone talks about employer loyalty during these times, punch them! Mfs will not listen to your personal story when they are laying you off. So don’t twice about “loyalty” when you want to switch.
I would like to second you on this. Do your job well, get paid appropriately for the job you do, and f**k the rest 🖕🏼
Ugh
Nothing is fair. Companies will replace all of us whenever it is convenient for them. Seriously, this is how corporations work. Ideally, they offer to reskill workers if their roles are no longer needed but they don’t. The only company I’ve seen do this is Microsoft when they closed all their retail stores but they offered to reskill retail workers.