Why do Internet companies lay off employees in large numbers?

At the 2021 Tencent Annual Conference, Ma Huateng once expressed in a low mood that "the Internet winter is coming", "reduce the scale of recruitment" and "be prepared for the winter."

Just three months have passed in 2022, and many Internet companies have already revealed news of layoffs. Among them are leading companies such as Weibo, Didi, Byte, and Baidu. Recently, "Alibaba layoffs, Tencent layoffs" has become a hot search topic.

A series of events seem to further confirm the fact of the "Internet Winter". Faced with the pressure of the economic downturn, Internet companies have to lose weight and slim down, reduce costs and increase efficiency; while laying off employees, they also strictly control recruitment. Difficulty finding a job will be a problem faced by many people.

1. How to spend the gap period in the workplace?

1. Think carefully about your career plan

Whether you leave your job voluntarily or passively, during the window period, you must sort out your past, analyze it yourself, and find out Make a plan for your career based on what you want to do and what you can do. After rational analysis, carefully choose the industry, company, and position instead of blindly submitting your resume.

2. Keep a regular schedule and recharge your batteries

During the period when you are not working, you should also maintain a regular schedule, make full use of your time, study efficiently, and improve your core competitiveness.

No matter when, companies still need outstanding talents. When job seekers apply for a position at the same time, the company will definitely choose the more outstanding one. If you are more capable than others, you have a greater advantage and a greater chance of getting an offer!

Although many rumors have not been confirmed yet, this rumor has also caused many people to begin to pessimize.

2. Is the Internet winter really coming?

In fact, srds layoffs are nothing new for large companies. The reasons for layoffs in some departments are simply the following:

The positioning of some teams is out of touch with needs.

The department has not actually created much value

The output is limited and the job functions are unclear.

But I didn’t expect that the big companies would have such a “double standard”. While laying off employees, they also planned to recruit young people...

According to the latest release of Zhaopin Recruitment, "Spring 2022" According to the Recruitment Market Weekly (Third Issue), the three industries with the largest demand for spring recruitment this year are: professional services and consulting industries; Internet and e-commerce related industries; real estate and construction engineering industries.

Looking back at the current spring recruitment market, you will find that the above data is too true! ! !

Many major companies have launched large-scale campus recruitment this year

Xiaomi has opened 1,000 positions;

ByteDance has released 6,000 positions;

Meituan wildly dumps 10,000 offers;

...

And compared with previous years, it is obvious that this year's major manufacturers are anxious to grab people. Xiaomi is 14 days earlier than last year; VIVO launched 12 days earlier than last year...

What is even more outrageous is that Alibaba, which was laying off employees in the past, directly started campus recruitment for the class of 2023. Let’s take a look at the salary given by Alibaba:

Although the Internet in 2021 is in the eye of the storm, the Internet industry in the next ten years will continue to become clearer and more predictable as the policy and regulatory framework becomes clearer. It was a decade that truly moved toward calmness, restraint, and formality. As a trend-setter in modern society, the Internet industry has become a favorite field of work for many professionals.

In order to help everyone better improve their abilities and realize the increase of personal value. Tianlai recommends that friends who want to switch careers in the IT Internet industry combine their hobbies and expertise to choose these Internet positions with good development prospects.

3. Which positions have greater development prospects

In the Internet industry, we are roughly divided into four major sectors: technology, design, product, and operation.

Among them, the positions that are relatively easy to enter and have very generous salaries include the following categories:

A

JAVA Development

The main job is to make software Design and development, testing, bug modification, etc., including communication of business requirements, detailed design of functional modules, implementation of business functions in unit testing, system maintenance, etc.

Java positions can be said to have the largest population in the IT industry group, and it can be regarded as a position with a relatively long history in the IT industry. There is still a lot of room for development. Whether it is the current needs or future trends such as big data and the Internet of Things, as long as you learn Java, you will be able to seize the current trends. At the same time, the future will be very bright.

B

Web front-end

To put it simply, it is to make websites for people who need to make websites, such as PC, mobile, mobile phone, etc., and then In addition to beautiful layouts, these websites also have dynamic effects, data interfaces, and data interaction functions.

HTML5 is the mainstream development language for the Internet front-end. Currently, no front-end development technology can replace it. Therefore, whether it is a PC or APP application, the front-end cannot do without HTML5.

C

UI design

UI is mainly responsible for the overall design of human-computer interaction, operation logic, and beautiful interface of the software. To put it simply, all the interfaces of websites and apps that you see are UI design renderings, which are then reproduced by developers in the form of code to achieve click interaction with various functions.

The development prospects of UI are great. In fact, the best development direction of UI is UE, which is interaction, and is the so-called user experience optimizer.

D

Software testing