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The Pulse #145: More clarity on the tech jobs market

Also: Google lawsuit win, OpenAI buys two startups, LLMs deleting stuff in prod, and more

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Gergely Orosz
Sep 04, 2025
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message.

Today, we cover:

  1. More clarity on tech recruitment trends. Less hiring and ever-growing stock values are also reasons why Big Tech tenure is rising, and fewer young developers seem to be getting hired in the US.

  2. Industry pulse. Google lawsuit win, OpenAI buys Statsig and Alex Codes, Apple to try and build an AI search engine, and more.

  3. LLMs deleting stuff in prod. A reminder that giving LLMs production access – or even filesystem access – is risky. Only proceed if you have backups, or don’t mind losing access to databases or files.

1. More clarity on tech recruitment trends

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