What do we say to the God of layoffs?
Not today!
Recently, with my own doing and some company politics, I got removed from a project where I was working as an Architect. (As I spent too much time learning GenAI, rather than doing actual work and communication.)
Unfortunately, no Architect roles are left in the company, and the job market is also too slow. My salary and expectations may have gotten pumped up after the COVID boom (as did inflation).
I got an opportunity to do a senior mobile dev, and I picked it (to get some good terms with a fellow Architect who played his card right).
It will be a two-position downgrade, but I am hoping/willing to crush it to build myself from the ashes and reposition what I need to do.
It is much better to have an actual runway with a salary rather than rolling in the dirt.
My key takeaways: Hustle is going to be there; it never goes away, no matter which position you are in.
You are on your own; make friends rather than relying on line managers.
Learn technology on your own time or as part of an actual career plan, not randomly because you like it.
People will screw you over, but doing good for others is still much less draining than planning revenge, and it also has much better returns.
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Did you become an architect early in your career? That might be the reason you had to downgrade your role?
I would not say early, but it depends what Kind of role you do and aspire to do. I worked UI Architect and aspire to be full stack, there is no transition stage where you can go to backend and learn spring boot and Kafka etc, you have to learn those on the conceptual level and what they good for and fit them on the map.
There was a downsizing due to cost cutting, so be hands on which make you a fit for doing things. (AI helps, but it is not a replacement).
My mistakes, i got bored out of UI role, few moon shots gone horrible wrong with new aspirations, 1 year wasted with not here or there and broken expectations.
It depends, where you are comming from, in startup, you are allowed to do some mistake, in established teams you have to be a expert from day 1.
Things dont work everytime, you have to have a core skill to keep lights on. Architect are like diamond, one company stack genius are sometimes not appreciated at another company stacks (when it comes to established design).
Hence you have to be willing to put thrice the time to understand the stack.
Love your spirit
Finally got a new job, with good hike, the old job people are releasing me so fast it seems like I really dogdged a bullet.
Bro are you working in Primeco Unioncity office in Whitefield, Bangalore..?
If you are an architect check for AI Data unit they need an architect and you mentioned you have learnt Gen Ai thats exactly what they want and yes they are taking architects
Are you in ICOMS ????