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How screwed am I? (programming.dev)

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I started working for a big corporation about six months ago. Turns out a few months before I started there was a new CTO hired from a startup. This CTO has been on a hiring spree and basically hired all of the technical staff of the startup he came from (to the point that they're suing the company I work for).

All these people from the startup have their own office, away from all the corporate offices. And they're writing something (that they won't reveal) in what they refer to as their bunker. The best we can gather is that they're coming up with modern equivalents of all the backend services. This would mean that everything the devs do in the office I work in will be redundant.

I have the feeling that within a year or so (maybe less) there'll be mass layoffs of all the existing devs. Am I being paranoid?

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[–] mcherm 1 points 1 year ago

If I were you, I would be worried.

Not so much about getting laid off because you're not part of the new CTO's "in group". I would be worried because your company is investing a lot of money and time and executive attention into an IT project that has a very high chance of failing.

Hiring a new CTO from a startup is perfectly reasonable. Having that CTO bring along a lot of experienced developers can potentially be a good thing, especially if you are having trouble hiring people with the right skill set. But if that group is going off on their own and trying to do major innovation without taking significant steps to work with the existing company staff to understand the problems that they have faced and the current environment they are saddled with, then that group is very likely to fail.