MARKET TRENDS

FAANG Layoffs Drive Senior Hiring Preference and Salary Compression

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30 September 2025 3h27

It's a lot easier to institute a "we only hire seniors" policy when the market is flooded with ex-FAANG seniors who are willing to take a lower salary than previously due to all of the competition for jobs

Tech Layoffs Impact Junior Hiring Market Competition

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30 September 2025 3h26

I will suspect that the man reason junior hiring dropped in the last three years is that Google/Microsoft/Meta etc laid off hundreds of thousands of qualified seniors, which meant juniors were losing out to seniors in the job market

→ View original post on X — @pmddomingos

OpenAI’s Core Assets: User Base, Perception, Altman’s Influence

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30 September 2025 2h44

OpenAI's greatest assets:
1. Its vast user base
2. The (wrong) perception that they have some AI secret sauce
3. Sam Altman's hustling and dealmaking

Shopify VP Engineering Plans Massive 1000 Intern Hiring Initiative

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30 September 2025 0h49

Shopify VP Engineering @fnthawar talks about hiring 1,000 interns in this interview with @GergelyOrosz here, at 32:50

AI-Powered Interns Boost Tech Company Hiring Strategies

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30 September 2025 0h42

I heard that Shopify and Cloudflare are both increasing their intern intake this year because an intern armed with AI tools can produce value a whole lot faster than interns in previous years Any other companies doing this?

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OpenAI Sora TikTok strategy leak sparks moral panic debate

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30 September 2025 0h09

>be roon
>work at OpenAI
>timeline losing its mind over short-form “brainrot”
>tweet: “there is a moral panic around short form video content imo”
>(plant the seed, act casual)
>2 days later: Wired leak
>“OpenAI to launch Sora-powered TikTok for AI videos”
>now everyone