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app_priori t1_izfkoj6 wrote

Reply to comment by Sinister-Mephisto in Apparently the MBTA is having a tough time filling their IT positions to the point they're resorting to using a particular type of 3rd party recruiters located out-of-state to fill them by goldeneye0

Really? Despite the layoffs that have been happening everywhere recently? I'd say with government issues it's more a matter of pay; their pay scales are smaller and more inflexible and a lot of recently laid-off IT workers would rather take unemployment for a while than to work for half their previous wages.

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smc733 t1_izfrl2f wrote

You’re seeing isolated layoffs in big tech (IIRC around 150k), that’s not IT, and is a drop in the bucket in a job market creating 300k+ jobs per month. That’s like letting a small amount of air out of a balloon.

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app_priori t1_izfs7ky wrote

A trickle that can turn into a flood. Pepsi is laying off people despite doing great business lately too.

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smc733 t1_izfsgik wrote

Can, but right now isn’t. I am a director in IT at a mid to large organization, we can’t find qualified candidates.

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Sinister-Mephisto t1_izft7vr wrote

I'm not at a director level, but I can't tell you how many different guys I've had to interview for positions that put languages on their resumes but didn't know how to write a line of code when I asked them to demonstrate.

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RikiWardOG t1_izftdly wrote

Just out of curiosity what type of positions are you looking for?

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chucktownbtown t1_izg87yo wrote

Pepsi employs over 100k people in the US, and is laying off hundreds. Less than 1% of their headcount.

An enterprise organization has 5-10% turnover monthly anyway.

Pepsi was a click bait headline.

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Sinister-Mephisto t1_izftkr6 wrote

There's a lot of different types of workers in the the tech sector. Somebody who works the help desk, is different from a network engineer, is different from a front end dev, who is also different from a full stack / backend dev, who is different from a sec analyst, who is different from a sysadmin, etc etc.

There is still a huge demand.

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