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Tech Layoffs & Hiring Freezes | Day In Life of Google Software Developer Advocate - YouTube
Channel: Bukola
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- Hey, everyone! What's up?
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Welcome back to my channel.
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If you don't know who I am, I'm Bukola,
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a developer advocate working
at a big tech company
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and I'm gonna be showing
you what a couple days look
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like in my life.
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So for today, we're gonna
be working from home
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and then tomorrow we're gonna
be working in the office
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so I hope you enjoy this video.
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Sorry, everyone that I've been kind of MIA
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for the past couple days.
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I've just been dealing
with a lot of things
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and I needed to take a little bit
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of a break for my mental health
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but now we are back and we are consistent,
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so in the comments, let me know what type
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of videos you'd like to see from me.
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But for this video,
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I'll be showing you what
a typical workday looks
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like for me.
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Don't forget to follow me
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on my TikTok and also on Instagram
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and let's get started with the work day.
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Okay, so what am I working on today?
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Basically, I'm doing this new series,
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where I'm teaching
developers who program in Go,
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how Google Cloud can be great for them
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and all the different ways
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they can basically use Google
Cloud as Go developers.
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And with all these things,
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the first thing I need to do,
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the first thing I need to
do is read the documentation
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that already exists before
writing the scripts.
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Then later today, I'm gonna meet
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with the PM on this video series,
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who's the one wants
these videos to be done.
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And yeah, so we're starting
first with the documentation.
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The cool thing is
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like Google Cloud has so
much good documentation.
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So basically, I usually
spend a couple days reading
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through the documentation
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and seeing how I can basically turn a lot
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of the documentation into video form.
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That's like the low key version
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about basically the job I do.
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Read the documentation, make
the documentation into videos
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so that people can access the information
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in a different way.
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Before we can even read anything,
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we have to make sure we have
the essentials, ice cream.
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We need to insert some joy
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before you start reading
boring documentation.
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Before you wrap up the day,
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I thought it would be interesting to talk
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about an exciting topic.
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Oh my God, I'm so scared
to talk about this topic,
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which is the tech layoffs
and hiring freezes
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that have been happening recently.
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If you're not familiar with
what's going on in the world,
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because you prioritize your mental health
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so you're not even looking at the news,
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I wish that was me too.
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Right now, there are a lot of companies,
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mostly startups and companies that grew
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during the pandemic that
have been doing layoffs.
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Companies like Coinbase.
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I think Netflix had layoffs.
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Zoom had layoffs, basically,
a ton of companies
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from small companies
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to large bank companies
are laying off employees.
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It's not even the tech
layoffs that are scaring me,
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it's the hiring freezes that
have been happening in tech.
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Big tech companies are afraid
of an upcoming recession.
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So, even though they have enough money,
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like, these companies
have billions of dollars,
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they're still doing hiring freezes.
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I think Google has a hiring freeze
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that was announced recently.
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Meta has a hiring freeze
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and I'm gonna keep it real with you guys,
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it's making me a little bit
nervous because it feels
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like a recession might actually
happen later this year.
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I'm just here to say
that I'm also stressed,
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I'm also freaking out right now as well,
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you're not alone. (laughs)
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I'm laughing because I'm scared,
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but let me just talk
about how I'm preparing
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for this upcoming recession.
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Of course, you know, you gotta stay ready
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so you don't have to get ready.
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God forbid, they lay you off.
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So what I'm doing is, you know
I'm keeping my resume fresh,
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keeping my LinkedIn fresh,
keeping my website fresh,
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just in case anything happens.
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I'm also definitely like,
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on the more personal finance aspect,
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I'm trying to increase my emergency fund,
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because, you know, if
there is a recession,
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I would like to have at least
a year's worth of saving.
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So I've been, you know,
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cutting back on my more material girl ways
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and directing more money into my savings.
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I'm also still investing
in the stock market
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because stocks right now
are at a huge discount
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so I'm still investing.
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All I have to say is, I
don't have any advice.
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I was gonna talk about how
maybe think we're still safe,
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but at this point I am scared.
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I'm scared.
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We'll see what happens,
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like, I'll be walking through
this ride of a journey.
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So, we'll see what happens.
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I'm getting ready to go
into the office today.
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It's about nine o'clock.
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I'm gonna get into the
office, probably like 11.
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Let me also show you
my fit for the office.
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I'm wearing like, you know, casual pants.
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I dunno if you guys can
see them, I'm wearing a,
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you know this top, I wear
this top like all the time.
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I'm getting ready to go
into the office today
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and I'll show you what working
in the office looks like.
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So I do actually prefer working
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from home,
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even though the office
is extremely beautiful,
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because I'm not a big fan of commuting.
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So I typically go in only
for team bonding activities
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or when I'm getting lunch with someone,
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which is why I'm going in today is
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because we have a team bonding
event on Little Island.
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And this is what a typical
workday in the office looks like.
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