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jje1000 said:
Seems like there are waves of layoffs and belt-tightening in the tech industry over the last year or so.
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Well, if you don’t actually do any work, is it any surprise?

www.businessinsider.com

Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work'

Andreessen Horowitz's David Ulevitch said Google was an "amazing example" of a company with "BS jobs."
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Whenever I’m on Google, gmail, sheets, etc. or Facebook and notice no real improvements or even design and functionality changes, I sometimes wonder what all those tens of thousands of tech workers are doing.

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Google Jobs - Ramya Raghavan Digital Trends Google Plus

What you know about Google: great benefits, free food and that, whether you work there or not, you’re pretty much dependent upon it. What you might not know: what a day in the life of a pro Googler really looks like. Luckily, we’ve got your “in.”
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Admiral Beez said:
Whenever I’m on Google, gmail, sheets, etc. or Facebook and notice no real improvements or even design and functionality changes, I sometimes wonder what all those tens of thousands of tech workers are doing.
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Plus some actual real regression over the years, some of these products are less usable/useful than when they were first released.

Like what you said, I chalk above issue down to 'too many cooks' who need to look busy/improve the bottom line so they fuss around with near-perfected products, destroying them over time.
 
jje1000 said:
Plus some actual real regression over the years, some of these products are less usable/useful than when they were first released.

Like what you said, I chalk above issue down to 'too many cooks' who need to look busy/improve the bottom line so they fuss around with near-perfected products, destroying them over time.
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Google Search today is terrible. I miss my 20s when from about 1991-2001 we had real choice in useful search.

 
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

Canada’s tech job market has gone from boom to bust in last five years: Indeed

The research from site Indeed says August openings in the tech sector posted on its platform were down 19 per cent from their early 2020 levels.
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A new study says Canada’s tech job market has gone from boom to bust in a matter of years.

The research from job postings site Indeed says August openings in the sector posted on its platform were down 19 per cent from their early 2020 levels.

Indeed says the fall was likely caused by either the market adjusting after a pandemic boom in hiring or recent artificial intelligence advances that have reduced tech firms’ interest in expanding their workforces.

Indeed says it is hard to tease out which of the factors was more to blame because tech job postings were already plunging when chatbot ChatGPT was released in late 2022 and triggered a surge of interest in AI.

While much of the decline in tech job postings has materialized in software engineer roles, Indeed found hiring for AI-related jobs was still up compared to early 2020.

When it compares Canada’s overall decline in tech job postings, it found the decrease from pre-pandemic levels is somewhat milder than the retrenchment it has observed in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany.
 
AlbertC said:
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

Canada’s tech job market has gone from boom to bust in last five years: Indeed

The research from site Indeed says August openings in the tech sector posted on its platform were down 19 per cent from their early 2020 levels.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca www.bnnbloomberg.ca


A new study says Canada’s tech job market has gone from boom to bust in a matter of years.

The research from job postings site Indeed says August openings in the sector posted on its platform were down 19 per cent from their early 2020 levels.

Indeed says the fall was likely caused by either the market adjusting after a pandemic boom in hiring or recent artificial intelligence advances that have reduced tech firms’ interest in expanding their workforces.

Indeed says it is hard to tease out which of the factors was more to blame because tech job postings were already plunging when chatbot ChatGPT was released in late 2022 and triggered a surge of interest in AI.

While much of the decline in tech job postings has materialized in software engineer roles, Indeed found hiring for AI-related jobs was still up compared to early 2020.

When it compares Canada’s overall decline in tech job postings, it found the decrease from pre-pandemic levels is somewhat milder than the retrenchment it has observed in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany.
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CBRE's North American tech city rankings come out in September most years. Toronto was #4 last year, which was actually an increase in ranking from the year prior.

As the above piece notes, other areas are showing larger declines.

The decline is also not year over year, but since 2020, which was the peak new listings year. So 81% of pre-pandemic listings for a high growth centre doesn't look too bad, really.

Toronto's tech sector in 2024 was still 44% larger than 2018

 
afransen said:
Search before google was terrible. Of course, Google has also allowed its search to be enshitified, and moreso every year.
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Back in the early 1990s I was in the zone with Boolean searches on Archie. But you're right, Google made search easy, and from about 1998 to 2004 (before the shift to monetization over usefulness) it was tops. The fact that no competitor arose to replace Google as they drove down the path of enshittification is indicative of how broken the US antitrust laws are.
 
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Anyone else subjected to a long telephone poll this week which was clearly paid for by conservatives trying to work out who to run against Olivia Chow? Bradford, Tory, Bailao and someone else who I can't remember. Usual suspects though...
 
AnnetteMeetsJane said:
Anyone else subjected to a long telephone poll this week which was clearly paid for by conservatives trying to work out who to run against Olivia Chow? Bradford, Tory, Bailao and someone else who I can't remember. Usual suspects though...
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I hope you suggested Bradford. I think he's close to unelectable, at least in his Ward for the next election
 
TO is now a bigger tech hub than NY! 🤭👨‍💻📲 I wonder if KW should be included in GTA stats?!

renx.ca

Canadian cities shine in CBRE’s 2025 Scoring Tech Talent rankings

Toronto improved from fourth to third in CBRE’s 12th annual Scoring Tech Talent ranking of North America’s top technology employment markets, while Waterloo Region rose 11 spots year-over-year, tying for the biggest gain and moving into seventh spot.
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afransen said:

I checked. NYC had 390k tech workers in the year surveyed (2023), while Toronto had 314k and Waterloo 29k. So not enough to unseat NYC but definitely nipping at their heels. Seattle ranks higher but has 195k tech employees, while the SF Bay area has a whopping 437k.
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You are correct; hyperbole on my part! What I should have said was the highest growth is pronounced in CND metros and is evenly spread across the country.
 
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