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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Tech lives and dies by the quality of their product and innovations. You can see if you are working for a company that losing the innovation or marketshare game and move on as there are always other places to go to, rather than an entire industry that is constrained by commodity prices. If your tech company is picked up by a venture capital company or gets bought out by a bigger studio, your job and opportunities are usually secure as they invest in studios for their talent and IPs - not oilfield assets and plays.
Tech does not rely on a common global commodity price to determine if everybody can order double meat or is on EI the week after in very industry specific roles that are more difficult to transition. A full stack developer can work in almost any environment - not just specifically a tech company. An O&G production engineer has to move to another producer if they are even hiring.
Hopping jobs every 2-3 years because tech is changing is not the same as being forced to hop whenever energy prices dip low and uncertainty hangs over every other possible destination you could hop over to since every industry specific professional is competing for an increasingly limited number of jobs with the same titles.
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I think we're talking about different things here.
You're talking about developers at tech companies being able to jump companies because their skills are transferrable. No argument there, similar to accountants and lawyers - your trade is applicable to any company. If you're a reservoir engineer - perhaps not.
I was talking about your comment about having your company "bought out from under you". That happens to tech companies all the time as part of their exit strategy - it's an intrinsic part of their short lifecycles, outside of the Big Tech companies. Just like any company - when people get bought out, they get rich and leave - and the people that made it great leave, and the company goes into it's death spiral. If you're looking for an nice stable job at a single company for 5-15 years - I'd argue a tech company is not that place to be.
That all said - yes, I'd agree from an overall career longevity perspective - at this moment, there would be more job opportunities in the developer field than say, a reservoir engineer.