Layoffs at my last company: Did I survive?

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In this video, Harkirat Singh shares the story of how his old employed laid off 40% of its workforce in 2022 due to the ongoing recession. Watch this video if you're scared of Layoffs and also about artificial intelligence taking over software development jobs.
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[@dsfgtfa-rq1mm]

Never put your trust in management and only be loyal to your work.

[@Niyet22]

How?

[@aadeshkarira87]

@@Niyet22 I guess you understand these things when you experience them, like always expect that unexpected can happen and if unexpected happens move on. You can't do much about anyone's decision.

[@its_maalik]

4CR offer and you still manage to survive the layoffs is a bigger flex in my opinion. that means you are creating enough value for your employer 😊. i have seen a lot of layoffs close to me and that mostly happened with folks who were drawing exorbitant salaries with not enough impact to justify their high price 😊

[@F16Raashah]

Seriously man 4CR offer for one employee in a company and they still couldn't lay him off has to be biggest flex lolz.

[@304anupranay9]

Hi bhaiya:) have a video suggestion for you. How about making a video in which you mention all the skills, talents, programming languages you know... listing out everything major or minor with the resources that you followed to acquire it and what resource you would today recommend.. know that would be a long video but it would give us better insights about your journey. Also, do mention the way you follow to acquire new knowledge. Thanks :)

[@AbhayKumar-sl3pl]

I am just commenting the same ,, thanks way the way..👍👍

[@sambhavmishra5423]

Not a good idea. Spoon feeding should be avoided

[@armorkinggaming1933]

Even if you follow the same track it doesn't guarantee anything. Find your own way of learning rather than copying someone else. When you dive deep only then you understand what's actually happening.

[@blasttrash]

and while he is at it, he should also give his bank account number, birth certificate, aadhar card number, home address and his phone number too. 🤣

[@commonsense1019]

jaa bee ghaatu u r not qualified enough to give video suggestions.

[@NikhilKumar-sr6to]

Can you please elaborate on the "Deep" Tech part. I get what you are saying and I agree but what could those fields be apart from the two you mentioned ?

[@yogeshyadav7569]

Leaving comment in case he replies in this thread

[@sushilrawat502]

Correct

[@saitama4650]

commenting in case a good reply comes

[@ankitshaw2011]

Having this exact same question for a long time...

[@amanagarwalx]

He was maybe working in the niche of webRTC , as he said he was a specialist it's irreplaceable to find a good talent fast that's what he meant😊

[@aryan_jain_05]

Departments that were not Layoffed were 1) Deep Tech 2) Infrastructure

[@coderprakash]

What is called as deep tech which Technologies should we learn for getting into deep tech!

[@takeuchi5760]

​@@coderprakash I have a hunch you have are new to programming or else you would have just looked it up. And if you had looked it up, you'd know it's not something someone new to programming needs to think about. Like it was said in the video, you still first need to be good at all the general stuff that has been good for getting jobs like full stack dev, DSA before you can think about getting involved with deep tech.

[@coderprakash]

@@takeuchi5760thank you am confusing that what should pick for full stack tech stack currently which has more job openings?

[@skagraw2]

layoffs can happen anytime. It can happen multiple times in the span of 6 months. My advice is to find another job immediately. If possible, have multiple job offers so when you get laid off, you can go back to those companies. After layoffs, when too many engineers in the system are looking for a job, you won't even get an interview call.

[@ranadanial7165]

Bhai, jobs hi khatam ho rahi hai, Jo skills chahya uske liya hor 1-2 saal lage ge tab tak ka kharcha kon uthayega?

[@varunmanjunath6204]

Yes very few jobs and too much competition

[@phanishmurthy9008]

Hey bhaiya :) I am from a tier 2 college in bangalore. I was offered a decent CTC when I got placed back in 6th semester but now the company has revoked their offer after 9 months. Since it was the first company that came to our college, I got placed there and my college blocked me from attending any further placement opportunities. I could not find any relevant jobs off campus so I did not apply untill it made total sense for me to apply. But I enchanced my skillset but learning web3 technologies and getting an intermediate experience in blockchain development. But since I am a fresher, I don't see many web3 based companies hiring freshers, I am good at web development too but recession has hit hard and I am in a very sticky situation. I am confident in my skills but if anyone reads this message, what's your advice for me. I would really appreciate any kind of advice. Thank you

[@arfaatsyed6853]

I'm in a similar situation too. I was offered a very good package and got blocked by college and then the offer was revoked. A month left for graduation and I don't have an offer

[@LostAdmin]

@@arfaatsyed6853 how much ctc?

[@aadarshshekhar3142]

Which college bro?

[@arfaatsyed6853]

@@LostAdmin 9ctc. decent for my college standards

[@ADITYA_138]

​@@arfaatsyed6853 apka ab jha placement hua tha vo mana kar dia ? Cancel hogya ye khene cha rshe ho kya app

[@abhinavkhanna2594]

1. will doing open source make you irreplaceable ? 2.For a person who is not yet employed , what do you suggest?

[@me_debankan4178]

1. It depends on which kind of repository and In what kind of issues you are contributing 2. He already answered i guess

[@supratiksarkar6336]

😂😂😂😂. Pehle uske level ke thoda pass aao, phir woh answer karega. Nahi to Aisa random question roz unke pass na jane kitne hi aate honge.

[@aryanmishra9946]

@@supratiksarkar6336 true

[@ajiteshmishra]

irreplaceable kuch nahi hota har koi and gar kuch replace ho sakta hi

[@jethalalrox1175]

@@ajiteshmishra aise nahi hai. The more niche your field becomes, the harder you are to replace. Sahi baat boli hai video mei. For example it is very hard to replace let's say a compiler engineer or embedded engineer. Ye field kafi hard hai to bande bhi kam hai. Compared to something like web dev

[@DK-ox7ze]

The thing with chatgpt is that it's blocked in most corporate systems now because copy pasting company code into it can be problematic, because there have been cases of code being leaked due to this. So it's not that everyone will be able to leverage chatgpt to become a 10x developer.

[@LetAnarchyRule]

correct..btw chatgpt, github copilot are getting sued

[@aakarshan4644]

bro simply run a local llm

[@DK-ox7ze]

@@aakarshan4644 How?

[@CristianIntriago_]

@@aakarshan4644 probably some web3 will fix it haha

[@ravneetkaur8035]

concise, to the point, no fluff or BS, accurate, helpful -- outstanding content!

[@kayflip2233]

Very good advice with the supply and demand consideration. If you go the strategy of finding a high demand, difficult, niche subject matter and become an expert in it, it gives you more bargaining chips to negotiate a higher salary and job security for when the there is a downturn in the economy. I also recommend going into fields where you can get locked into year long (or more) contracts so that you can weather the recession (tech consulting is an example because it has a long implementation lifecycle). Often times, people are afraid of being pigeonholed into a certain software or niche knowledge base, but if the demand is there, it can often have the opposite effect - higher salaries and more job security because they can't easily replace you.

[@chaitu6081]

Need clarity on a few terms that he used in this video. * Does "nicher things" mean more specialised areas of expertise? Can someone give me an example? * What is the meaning of "deep tech"? Can anyone please cite some sources for me to understand this more?

[@shubhmishra3338]

Bottom line - No one is irreplaceable in pvt sector. Govt job zindabad!

[@dingding4898]

Zindagi me 4 cr nhi kama paoge, unless black

[@shri_saurabh]

​@@dingding4898 4cr 1 month mein kaha so raha hai 😂😂😂

[@Knighted_Alexander]

@@dingding4898 Give 3 years of your life for civil services exam. Middle class se seedhe elite class(although it is a very tough exam)

[@Pranav_4119]

​@@Knighted_Alexander par bemandari se honge.... Kya fayda.....

[@eeew2691]

Most Govt jobs suck, kaali kamayi krni h to wo alag baat h

[@karannishad2484]

You are opening now bhaiya , keep this up and really informative ❤

[@rathis8446]

Excellent presentation and advice, thanks for the wonderful video

[@gdthegreat]

Good video, just one doubt, Is the title got changed for this video? I think I watch same video with different title.

[@shashanktiwari9511]

The way you helped was amazing. Thankyou so much Also just a question. Are you a fulltime now or a freelancer? Or do you still do freelancing

[@kartiksaini8629]

Can you make a video where you explain exactly what you did (the Deep Tech part) in this company?

[@Shravankumar_888]

their company is block chain and web3 based , so deep tech refers he maily does block chan

[@errorforever2249]

it means Ai,Block chain and infra

[@hasthikjathan7769]

Hello Harkirat, I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the effort you put into creating quality content. I was wondering if you would be open to considering a change in your background or green screen, as it sometimes creates a slightly distracting effect around the edges of your body. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your craft.

[@akashg9108]

Sorry if this sounds dumb but will chatgpt turn out to be negative for us? I'm not talking about job replacement. I'm asking if it'll end up reducing the salaries that software engineers were paid and make it come down to a very low amount? Or else will the salaries remain the same atleast and it enabling us to build better products for the world as a whole a lot quicker?

[@chinmayshetye3]

I think we all can only speculate at this point of time. Being skilled enough isn't the only reason to get good salary! You have to be at the right place at the right time to make money Kind of like this video

[@adityasingh11156]

In web3 specifically ,What should be the deep tech, where many people don't want to go ? Is it core blockchain,security auditing,defi or come to rust and solana or any other?? what is your view ?

[@yyy5523]

Very informative! But what the examples of deep tech?

[@HX_666]

People who work closely with the product like R & D ,advanced manufacturing, blockchain ,big data, quantum computing etc without them company might not perform optimally

[@yyy5523]

@@HX_666 thanx man

[@sr-xd8jb]

Data Analyst is surely an entry level job. Should I try to migrate to data engineering next or to cloud engineer to thrive? Do I need to niche down in all three leading cloud technologies?Or is Data Analytics team safe from layoffs?

[@perseusvlasov367]

Same question I have

[@bhujangshinde2832]

Please provide some resources to study these complicated fields. How you prepared yourself, please share sir. Thank you.

[@harshgoyal4361]

Always informative content ........ Liked your Explanation

[@DebabrataPattnayak]

what kind of deep tech u mean like webrtc or anything like mlops,dataengenier ,infra,devops?

[@hanaasihanish]

What do you mean by Deep Tech?

[@DebabrataPattnayak]

deep tech u mean machien learning,data engenier type or normal Backend engenier type?

[@AbhishekKalyani]

click bait! He is not laid off.

[@AdityaTyagiYT]

Can you also give a brief about Competitive Programming future in this AI age. Please!!

[@quishwarsi]

I guess I'm too late for your roadmap, What would you recommend to someone who's failing. Not a great studios kid and all these subjects just bored me through my semesters I'm doing BSCIT, as it's my last year I either have time to spend on upskilling myself with your roadmap and try to land a job or I can study for 2 months do useless assignments and hours and hours of getting hope to be passed. I'm stuck man, what do i do really need a suggestion here

[@dhruvsakariya3129]

What do you mean by Deep Tech ?? Can you Explain in details ??

[@danmathew4427]

Thank you for the video. It was very informative.

[@pechanKuan]

Who is allowed to share there code to chatGpt? Even chatGpt give wrong answer to many times. It's just useful for learning and it can't take people jobs .

[@motivationmodel]

What were the technologies in this deep tech? I’m asking as a React developer.

[@vikrant9272]

LOL you had a thumbnail Saying "How I survived the Layoff" Philips Changed

[@keshavakumar9828]

Goal for 2023 is to upskill in Web3 & blockchain Golang Rust AWS

[@coderprakash]

What are other than this for long term career in surviving in IT

[@nikhiltyagi4410]

you and kunal are fucking Genious, nobody will replace you, make video on how to do freelancing teach us like newbie. and one more thing aisa hi dusro ka acha karta ha blessing milegi

[@commonsense1019]

boi this guy if given impromtu speeches this guy will rock with intellect.

[@NowTrendingNow]

You are awesome! Thanks for your kind words.

[@veerenderkaur2265]

How banking is at top in india. Because in india banking transactions play a very vital role both in traditional and modern methods... which will never go out of fashion .... hatts off🎉🎉🎉tobankers

[@veekysoft]

You tell great advice in simple words...love it

[@pvb9263]

Thumbnail change Kiya??

[@vb5969]

A line from 2012 movie.... When they say everything is fine thats when u get cautious

[@shinn767]

Hey Harkirat can you please make a video on how you became so fluent in english and how anyone can. Some practical tips.

[@srinivasm4127]

Is systems programming considered deep tech?

[@sudheerkumar4886]

I had seen people doing niche stuff got laid off. Always be on the profitable side of the company. Even if you are doing niche stuff if you’re not profitable you will be out

[@vinitsharma4787]

Bhiya How the pro developers like you learn the new programing language , frameworks , or packages which have huge documentation , pls make the video on it

[@madara7305]

Nothing just keep ur fundamentals strong . A good engineer learn processes not frameworks , he can understand the syntax in one day once he is already immersed in fundamentals as well as any language he is using. If someone just learn the cream and don't go deep in the framework , language he will always struggle

[@me_debankan4178]

It is easy to learn new languages if you understand basics well like pointers, interfaces, oop, objects , classes etc... which your college gonna taught you in first semester ( C program) , even if you don't understand some basics you can revisit certain lectures

[@me_debankan4178]

And for frameworks or libraries you don't have to learn those things from start to finish there are 100's of libraries and frameworks for different languages you just have to be aware which libraries and frameworks helps you solving which kind of tasks specifically .. keep a watch on 3rd party libraries and a native standard library made by the developers of that language for specific ..

[@vinitsharma4787]

Thank you to both of u to reply my comment . See i am learning the mongoose from documetation and i am not even able to complete the single schemas module of that documentation in 3 to 4 hour , so my questions is this good to spend that much time on it , or may be i am inefficient , if yes then what is the effecient way for learning this type of technologies which have huge docs ?

[@madara7305]

@@vinitsharma4787 I believe you already know the basics databases and thers a book i will suggest to read if you want to brush up ur fundamentals on databases "database system concepts" by abhram something . I will advice you to read if your fundamentals or there is a gap in knowledge. Now coming to the point even you are reading documentation makes you a efficient programmer. Remember any new thing you learn it will take time read it , analyse it and think about every line that what was the purpose of this documentation .Ask how , define processes not procedures in ur learning . And also you can always refer to some other text, videos to help you go through it.

[@pkn8707]

Hi Harkirat I think I know something about what are the technologies used in the infrastructure. Although could you please tell what are the technologies that the deep tech team used on day-to-day basis?

[@knowledgeguru771]

What do you referring to deep tech ? Can you make a video on that also?

[@sanujitroy6830]

We need to understand why Russia do not focus on IT and other European countries

[@prajyotp4981]

before a while thumbnail was different, ain't it? I know you might have changed it according to clickthrough rate. which I see as strat

[@Sakura-zu4rz]

I haven't had any fun lately, 😭❤🙂I love the kind and generous heartwarming atmosphere that you create, your kind, easygoing, warm vibe. ❤I like the essence how you live on. I need to be true to myself and find a job I am passionate about. I want to find a way to live as who I really am.

[@amitkpadaya]

Hi Harkirat, Nicely explain and seen the same things in my company as well. If possible can you put more light on DEEP TECH you are talking about , may be new video on that.

[@blackberryyyyyy]

If everone starts doing what others are not, then others will become everyone soon- :)

[@pranavwani]

Thanks Harkirat for sharing!

[@xdd236]

What is infrastructure engineer?? Is cloud engineer same as infrastrycture or is it a different thing? Can someone please help me with this confusion.

[@richagupta1685]

Thank you for such good advice.🌟

[@me_debankan4178]

What are deep techs ? Is it Deep learning? 🤔

[@abhijitroy1958]

i kinda hate your channel but so blessed to follow you on time cause with every video you say bitter truth which is very very imp

[@Arnnv]

How's the market for software developers in Investment Banks and HFT's. Quantitative Research Analyst roles and etc. Are thier layoffs in that side too? What are your thoughts on these roles and do you plan on joining these companies in future?

[@PiyushSingh-qw1xm]

No almost no layoff that sector is pretty tight

[@ritvikreddy3959]

Nope as they hire less people mostly from iits and they already make a hell Lotta money so there won't be any layoffs you only get fired if you working good enough

[@-M.J-]

Next vdo idea :- Roadmap to DeepTech.

[@aryanmishra9946]

spoon feeding ?

[@gyvsr]

Nobody is going to reveal the fact till the last minute. Every organisation tells always that the employees need to be dedicated, committed and responsible to the organisation, but the other side they are not the same. It is just a business and every employee need to be clear, clever and careful always and need to prioritize their health and family first.

[@applepeel1662]

Thanks for this. Could you make a video on what are these examples of niches that are

[@abhis9781]

last wala STATEMENT : YOUR SKILLS ARE MOST IMPORTANT .....s the key !! True said !!

[@Neo-Vim]

Bhaiya in Hindi :) for the first time in the channel.

[@amt.7rambo670]

HARKIRAT, is backpack hiring if they find anyone worthy? And if u find any one worthy will we get ur recommendation for interview.

[@RajeshSharma-ko1ml]

That's why upsc is becoming lucrative career options due to job securities

[@subhamsrawat]

i have a offer for a normal sde full time role(yahama motors solutions) and a internship offer in devops(Hashdin by deloite) as you said go for niche field the things only few people are doing do you think i should go for devops role?

[@hemalpatel3770]

Harkirat in case you're reading this can you explain a bit. Deep Tech?

[@striker44]

If being a founder is cushy, everyone will find a way to become a founder.

[@subhajitkarmakar22]

What technologies/languages you were working with in deep tech team?

[@santali-kahani]

When you have no worries of layoffs because you dont have a job

[@MaulikParmar210]

To become 10x dev you have to spend 10 years in industry, your little buddy cannot teach you failures you learn during all deployments and problem solving hours of real engineering tasks. So if anyone thinks that AI is gonna help them become as competent as an experienced software developers in 1 year, good luck with endless debugging nightmares when you essentially forget to learn computer science basics and it's applications! P.S. Also to companies owners, if you think you can get away with cutting corners, wait till entire thing come crashing down in terms of scalability, infra costs, resource shortage and product failures because of shortcuts implemented resulting in more costs at the end!

[@Deepak-gd9dg]

please explain Deep tech and what are the things needed for it? explain briefly

[@rcoder5538]

Does DevOps a good carrier in this layoff seen

[@mohamedasif6557]

Yea, I think that's what he meant when he mentioned people who take care of the infrastructure and code deployment

[@mirdhapuneet]

Very nice evaluation....of scenarios

[@amalpaul2805]

Old title felt more meaningful.

[@tirtha9]

Do something core substantive Non speculative Nicher and Nicher Superb video!

[@rowhen_]

as you mentioned one should dive deeper into niche fields like SRE and infra, does cybersec also belong to this category and if so what's your opinion about cybersec ?

[@harkirat1]

Yeah I’d consider all of these niche fields

[@coderprakash]

Which job roles comes under infra can any tell , i know that sre ande Devops but what is infra field?

[@chandrakanth3604]

Yesterday in my organization 70% lay-off including me We are all US IT RECRUITER As market is very risk in USA from September our company decided to lay-off We are really frustrated

[@siddhantgupta1300]

Bhaiya you say Ai and web 3 are the future but how to start in these fields. Any roadmaps

[@mohammedshaziulislam2]

Are you their in the same Company of Chicago,, Because recently you told How you joined the new company of ARMANI

[@indsonusharma]

Is provisioning team ( authorization and authentication ) is good to join ?

[@afsarzan]

Deep Tech and Infra are not laid off. Sir ji , ye Deep Tech pe bhe video banado.

[@faizanahmed9304]

5:12 when you really care about your colleagues!

[@Tony_stark551]

When recession will end any idea

[@omduttdixit3433]

Can you mention what are the deep techs and infrastructure??

[@ashishjg]

Video starts from 7:55 according to the title of the video

[@shivachauhan2837]

Sir is their also remote jobs available in field of machine learning

[@nimritmaan2630]

Do You Live in Punjab? Mohali or Chandigarh

[@SirKutuli]

Your quality is hands down best.

[@parulgupta2795]

Prof support/sre if you have the mindset is something that never sees layoffs. It is not dev but based on 2000 and 2008 markets those were the people that stayed all dev teams and mnagers were trimmed or gone due to no funding.

[@nomansyt]

But what is deep tech? I mean what do you mean by deep tech?

[@harshanandraykar7808]

Bro, please make video on niches where the demand is high but the supply is less

[@deepeshshah8260]

Can you please make a detailed video about Deep Tech that you spoke about in this one.

[@bharathraj3333]

2020 to 2022 Software Development like 🔥🔥🔥 now some ice 🧊 are floating but still we are strong

[@rise6813]

Really u cleared my doubt 🙏

[@rexrelic]

Hi, your videos are very cool. Could you please make a video describing web3 AI?

[@sudheerkumar-fj1kr]

So there’s a danger for software engineers bcoz of ChatGpt?