Kudos to Ravish Kumar for unvieling the reality of the government

Indian media is silent on layoffs/ lack of jobs Governments is silent on layoffs/ lack of jobs Even jobless/laid off guys are silent on layoffs/lack of jobs 🤡 What happened to IT sector?

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Is it worth trying for a government job considering the current layoff scenario in the tech world (specially in India) ?

Very crucial to upskill oneself in specific domains. I believe the frugality is there to stay. Just like most government reports, the actual layoffs are much higher than what you read in news.

Even after so many layoffs, low salary of engineers , the craze of engineering is not going down. Every year 10lack students are writing jee , even if half of them will do engineering somehow then where will they get jobs ? It is just increasing the saturation of the market, which eventually decreases salaries, And now this AI God knows when it will come to an end 😮‍💨

Heard from people I know at Bain that they are laying off. This is mostly the first time an MBB is doing layoffs (earlier they would silently fire, or delay onboarding) A friend got impacted. Seems like this could be 10-15% of their consultants. Unprecedented.

Day by day we are seeing lot of negative news from one or the other reputed companies (Politics, toxicity). Getting into software role is gamble these days or coming (cuz... we Beggar cant be chooser). Things from here are likely to change for some of the person surely. There are folks preaching patience is the key, but likely talks about ethics and empathy they follow or do. (**atitude prevails) Everyone is planning to make others fool or control. People are working to show case and make himself secure in his role and he'll do whatever he can for it. and Even your leader have no autonomy but pushing to toxic chasing. (lack of vision **fooling) Remind me once a scar or experience hit you, you never forget it. You can choose to ignore and not talk about and move to other glorification of comparing package later in next org. I am not sure how many time such timeline have came in IT in past 30 years. But definitely the problems of today is different with diff pace and Zero empathy or ethics. cuz no one cares.

Governor of India just introduced Unified Pension Scheme for government employees. At times when it will become very difficult for corporate employees to survive after age of 40-45 in post AI world, this assured pension which was stopped after 2004 has been reintroduced. This will bring back the charm of government job which existed in 1970s-80s . In 70s and 80s, private jobs were synonymous with lack of job security. Globalization brought heavy salaries in corporate world and helped in reducing charm of govt job. Now, in 3-4 years, AI is going to cause huge change in corporate world thereby causing huge uncertainty. What do you people think?