Will promotions be much harder now?
Rahul used to say that Growth is the solution to all problems. If the company and the team is growing, then you get promotions much faster. But, currently, I guess other than AI teams, literally every other team in big tech seems to be shrinking. Due to the AI tools, lesser employees can produce the same output. There are too many layoffs in the last 2 years.
Do you think this trend of shrinking companies will continue as AI tools keep evolving?
Does this mean promotions become much harder and will take much longer for non-AI folks?
For someone struggling to get promoted in big tech, do you recommend moving to startups for faster promotion? Does being promoted to L5 and L6 in startups have a similar value as in big tech?
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Discussion
(2 comments)- 02 months agoTech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
I don't think it's true that every other team in big tech is shrinking. Most of the jobs from joinTaro.com/jobs/ are non-AI roles. Just a few random ones I found:
- Software Developer III, Mobile (iOS), Chrome at Google
- Software Engineer, Product at Meta
- Security Operations Engineer at Microsoft
`The narrative around AI tools making companies stop hiring is more of an anticipated impact rather than something widespread today.
Long term, I think there will be an increasing divide between the haves and have-nots -- some companies will thrive with more profit and more work to do in the age of AI. Others will see their revenues decrease. My advice: make sure you work for the former kind of company 😇
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2 months agoML EngineerAs someone who's extensively used all sorts of AI tools the power starts to fade after like 3-5k LOC projects. I still think we're extremely far away from AI coding to be able to autonomously carry out tasks at any codebase that's not like <3 months of work. Let alone any large corp with millions of lines of code
