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Once India's global claim to fame, the country's information technology (IT) sector is seeing a spate of layoffs by IT majors like Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Infosys and Cognizant.
The churn in the IT sector — which is moving towards increasing automation, use of artificial intelligence and is beset by tightening visa regulations — is likely to affect mid-level employees with 10-15 years of experience the most, as many are averse to learning new skills, industry experts have said.
Further, Indian IT firms are witnessing their slowest growth in a decade, while global firms are shifting their budgets from traditional IT services to newer areas such as digital and cloud, which require engineers to engage with clients instead of working remotely. Even as this shift takes hold of the sector, automation is increasingly taking over low-end maintenance work, forcing companies to shift workers to other projects and reduce hiring from campuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @10:52AM
Sometimes the older bunch are adverse to investing time in new stuff because they have seen all these fads and are thus less easily conned into drinking the kool-aid. Whereas the younger bunch often literally don't know anything better.
e.g. http://bysin.net/2017/05/07/no-good-reason-to-use-nodejs/ [bysin.net]
Note: I do disagree that there's no good reason. Often the good reason is some useful stuff is already written on it that's not available on other frameworks (and you don't have time to write it all from scratch). But other than that there aren't many good reasons to write completely new stuff on node.js.