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The Unhired Index: Big Tech revenue-headcount trend suggests 185K missing hiresdrorpoleg.com

The Unhired Index counts the missing workers of big software: the sum of reported employees at nine leading software companies, against what each company's own pre-2020 revenue-headcount relationship predicts for the rev

1 points•keeda•7 days ago•4 comments•
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keeda7 days ago
Big Tech is growing, just without the headcount. Interestingly, also quantifies and accounts for the pandemic over-hiring.
cratermoon7 days ago
It's 2026. Talking about pandemic over-hiring for the current job market is like blaming the Biden administration for gas prices.
keeda7 days ago
For sure, but that has been a confounding factor in any discussion on the waves of layoffs and makes it more about executive incompetence than a systemic change in the industry. What I found interesting was that this chart somewhat quantifies that overhiring so we can estimate how much of a problem that really was.

If I'm eyeballing the chart right, it seems these companies over-hired by only about 3%.

docenttx7 days ago
All of these types of reports are so over generalized to have zero value if not negative value.

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