IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Noodleface said:

Intel laying off 15%

I'm told we're laying off a very significant number of employees Monday as well.

From what I'm told it's a bloodbath.

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Godspeed brother.

Palum said:

I assume all jr devs and QA, keep all HR staff. Then cry when there's no one to hire into mid and sr roles next couple years and agitate for more H1Bs?

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The tried and true strategy. We definitely need more Indians in tech.

I find that one odd as for us (B2B tech company) sales churns as is normal but none of them are being replaced with AI. We are making use of AI to create a specialized bot that handles level 1 support for our highly technical product that even seasoned veterans of tech infrastructure (our target demographic) can't figure out intuitively. No support people are being let go though they just don't have to waste time on the categorized highly repetitive and more simplistic questions that used to eat up lots of their time.

I am going on vacation today but just read some early morning messages before I am out the door this morning and whooooo boy I picked a good time.

I mentioned previously about the lol invoice project I worked on last year. Resulting in me, alone, developing an end to end client invoicing application that incorporates IDK, 10 or so years worth of nonsensical business rules into automated invoices for our clients. This has worked well for some time but I handed over the project and its maintenance to another team who will be responsible for billing related development from now on. Which I am happy about.

This month there's been a shitfest because a Tier 1 Client is refusing to pay invoices (tens of millions at the moment) due to some kind of mistakes they are identifying in them. Okay cool. The new team is being pressured because obviously this is a lot of money and executive leadership wants it paid as soon as possible. Understandable. Since the Client isn't telling us why they are being rejected me and the other developer now working on them went on an easter egg hunt looking for the discrepancies they may be complaining about. We did find some, they seem to be timing related as to when they receive invoices vs when they do internal checks for whatever. Another is they seem to be comparing what the invoice says to other outputs not built on similar logic. Textbook an apples to oranges data issue.

Okay fine, there's a route to fix this obviously we can work with that. However, the finance team is ultimately responsible for revenue. They contracted a service agreement where these invoices are processed in 15 days of delivery and any suite of corrections also has a 15 day time limit. Finance did not tell us this until day 14 of that 15 day timeline last week and immediately escalated to their own VPs about failure to comply or something. So they try to dump it on me and our own VP gets pulled in, another VP of a different data org and the CS VP.

As we are developers trying to very rapidly fix this as best we can we kept asking finance questions about everything to narrow down what to do. As they should be the most invested in the process. But they are not, its all about deflecting as much as possible for some reason. We got a number of hand waves last week.

Today? They sent out a mass email to everyone involved that the finance team will be extracting themselves from the invoice process entirely outside of handling the money received. Everything else is your problem.

I expect some serious shit hitting the fan this week. Luckily I'll miss it. If they try to throw me under the bus over it I honestly don't care anymore. lol.

ShakyJake said:

Where is this?

Our director of engineering was let go this past week. Replaced after, oh, 15 years.

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Dell