How do you deal with layoffs?

[@mohsinwaseem9770]

Hi Fredrick, I am working as a developer in malmö. my manager yesterday told me that they might reduce the It personals and I think he only talked with me. Most likely, I will be asked to leave the company and my visa also depends on this job. I think it is due to part of my performance recently even though I have produced great results in the past and have issues in my recent task. My manager denies that it is due to my performance but due to there is not enough work right now moving forward. By this scenario what do you reckon their motive and what can I do better if I find another thing

[@FredrikChristenson]

You can't know the true reason unless they decide to tell you and even then you can't know if their assessment is right or not from the perspective of others. The main things to master to keep a job is always the same imo. Can you do the job to the satisfaction of everyone who matters? Do they find you easy to work with? These are the main 2 things to look in to if you want some general advice on how to improve.

[@recycle-bin-camp]

If a mid-level or senior developer can't comprehend code that passes the compilation process, is it a skill issue?

[@FredrikChristenson]

Depends on what we would define as reasonable code vs highly complex code. If you show some basic code with common pattern that would be a skill issue imo but if you show a minimized codebase with one letter variables I would say that even though it is possible to understand that code, well it is a bit much to say that the reader lacks skill.

[@recycle-bin-camp]

@@FredrikChristenson i guess i have seen workers who can't comprehend oop code with oop techniques in TypeScript because javascript doesn't have it. they can write code within js frameworks but lack the oop techniques from java-c#