The day Nicole Tsai was fired from Google, she staged herself on TikTok. Tear in the eye, sipping her juice with a straw, she recounts the text message sent by her superiors. Quickly, she descends her stairs, rushes to her computer to find out more, but her professional e-mails are already blocked. Nicole Tsai exchanges a few words with her colleagues, then decides to go for a walk in Disneyland. “I truly believe that when one door closes, another opens”concludes the former employee of Google.
In fact, the prospects for young people in Silicon Valley are always bright, provided they agree to look elsewhere, beyond California and the GAMAs (Google, Amazon, Meta and Apple), the “Big Four” which are announcing thousands of job cuts, and feed the list of 330,000 jobs cut in tech around the world (mostly in the United States) in 2022 and 2023, listed by the specialized site Layoffs.
Alex Ivkovic, director of information systems at CDF Corporation, a manufacturer of plastic containers, still remembers with spite the difficulty he had in finding a computer programmer with two to three years’ experience a year earlier. . “Nobody was interested, nobody wanted to work in the factory with machines. They all want floor from a distance. » The director took six months to find the rare pearl.
“More open” candidates
Paul Toomey, founder of Geographic Solutions, a job search platform based in Florida (450 employees) also says he has difficulty attracting candidates for the fifty high-tech positions available in his group. “It’s not easy to compete with Silicon Valley, he said. The big guys are offering a lot of money and right after the pandemic they were hiring remotely all over the country! It took us more than three months to find each of our engineers. » ” Fortunatelyhe continues, things are going a little better, the big ones are downsizing. »
And software engineers, designers, artificial intelligence experts… are broadening their horizons, beyond California. Fifty-six percent of those interested quickly find another job, says Sinem Buber, economist at the ZipRecruiter platform. Their search lasts an average of seven weeks, and three-quarters of them choose from several offers, particularly in sectors other than Silicon Valley; 6% go into e-commerce, explains Mme Buber, 5% opt for finance, 2% prefer health.
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