I am experiencing a bit of a whiplash here at work. To be fair, I am getting paid very well (and got a significant raise last year, that was good), but we have had positions be open for years now with no hiring. And we are having more and more projects being proposed without finishing the projects themselves. Its the classic they want to do more with less scenario. The top brass just announced a hiring freeze so new devs for a while.
The execs are floating the idea that AI can be used to replace or supplement the people leaving. On all of our propitiatory code-base/solutions…yeah that will go well.
So yeah anyone else dealing with this?
I nervously chose to stay and learn instead of raking in cash in some of my early developer jobs.
I told myself I would make more later after my skills were established.
Now it is later, and I am, indeed, making good money.
In hindsight, it was the right call, for me.