It is interesting that a similar thing happened when millions of manufacturing jobs were offshored to China and other low-cost sites. Now it has come to the tech industry, and every other industry where it is possible. It hurts when it comes to us. (Speaking as a person in tech in high COL). I hope we will find other roles as people found when they moved on from manufacturing roles too
It may not be depression. It could very well be stress and burnout. To start with: just to to any therapist (ie counselling psychologist or clinical psychologist), basically a therapist.
You need talking, and then they can show the way forward.
I may be wrong, but this is what I am doing as well.
I don't think you are missing anything here. Both work in different ways (I have worked with companies as large as 250k+ employees to 2 employees).
Both try to achieve different things (make something from zero, and create drastic value, v/s incremental changes and building and sustaining existing revenue streams)
As an engineer: in bigger company, you will learn how large scale projects are pulled with so many people, v/s in small ones, you know what you are learning. In startup's favour: since a company from 2-1000 employees can be called a startup, so what I mentioned about large scale projects in bigger companies, you can learn that in these companies as well.
I would suggest you to speak to more such people and get their perspective. You will figure out what both businesses offer, and based on what you want to do in your life, you can make an informed decision.
I tried that, but I try to search in wide world, sometimes about topics that I don't even understand. So I don't know where to look. And many of my searches are like that (examples: how merchant fees work, how QC affects stock prices, effects of vitamin D3, how price parity is determined, how to focus on something boring)
All these are varied terms and most of search results will be like that, so I wonder if moderated directories would ever serve that.
I have also worked with many companies that are pretty huge, cash positive, exploding growth, and with very complex software as their product. They made a rule of not hiring using DS&A after accidentaly coming across a tier-3 college student with no knowledge of DSA and still doing pretty well (and he didn't jump ships too), so then changed their strategy to: only test them for what you need from them.
I will give it to Google and FB that their technical scale is much much larger than that company, so they might demand engineers who can understand that.
I see a really good example in India's UPI. You can make payments upto $600 USD using that, it directly deducts from your bank account and you can do P2P too.
Yes, I think so too. Previous comment I think meant that if making cultured 'flesh' is infeasible, we can switch to a diet that is vegetarian and feasible at scale.
I agree to that, not just it kills local job market, it is exploiting foreign workers. I read Theranos' account, and I imagined many Indian workers kept working because they had no choice to say No.
The moment they say no, they will lose their job, and getting a H1B sponsoring job in 60 days? Ain't nobody got (enough) time for that!
That's true for FAANG companies as well. They have slowed down hiring in US since it has become really hard to bring that talent in the country.
Instead they are slowly moving their work to other countries and doubling down on hiring there.
Source - I and many people I know have been approached for jobs in Countries other than my country of residence.
Not just exceptions. I have hoards of friends who have bachelors degree and they moved in through H1 route, but now working in FAANG or similar competitive start-ups because they are skilful and are making 130k+.
But I got your point, there has to be a quantifiable way to judge talent.