1. Protecting Yourself from Layoffs
Working on code that directly impacts company revenue and cash flow is the number one thing you can do to keep your job.
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0:37 · 19 June 2023
Working on code that directly impacts company revenue and cash flow is the number one thing you can do to keep your job.
Hear it at 0:21 →Here is the number one thing you can do right now to protect yourself from tech layoffs. As you probably already know, more than 184,000 people have been laid off in the tech sector in 2023. It seems like software companies want to become more and more efficient by restructuring and eliminating low priority projects. So, if you want to keep your job, you want to make sure that you're working on something important.
Important, meaning that the code you are writing directly impacts the revenue, the cash, the company is making. If that's not the case, you should consider switching companies.