The software engineering industry in 2024: Q&A

Q&A for my keynote at Craft Conference 2024. See the keynote talk here:    • The software engineering industry in ...  

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Questions answered:

00:00 Do you expect things in tech to "normalize" in a high interest-rate environment, as this happened before?
01:42 Are Shopify's two mastery paths coming with similar compensation changes?
03:09 Why are big and profitable companies laying off?
05:27 Do you think crypto might be vacuuming money out of the industry, causing this trend of layoffs?
06:50 Are we going back to the Waterfall model?
08:10 How does all this apply to the Eastern European market? What are differences?
10:20 How do you distinguish between technology leading to the future, versus overhyped and dead-end technology?