The Unending Tech Industry Job Search
Things aren’t looking great for anyone hoping to enter or re-enter the tech industry in 2025. Plenty of companies are hiring, but layoffs are constant as well, thanks in part to AI-powered corporate interests.
Plus, the weak labor market that has resulted is empowering businesses to create worse work environments, from ideologically-driven DEI rollbacks to RTO mandates that reduce workplace flexibility.
What’s the solution? For many workers seeking employment, it’s to keeping sending out resumes in the thousands and to hope the job market turns around.
At the Alphabet Workers Union, Google software engineer and the union’s organizing chair Alan McAvinney has a more specific goal: For Google to “commit to practices like offers of voluntary buyouts and fair terms of severance by codifying them in its actual written policies.”
