I'm a professional PHP, Python and Javascript developer from the UK. I've worked with Django, Laravel, and React, among others. I also maintain a legacy Zend 1 application.
Today my employer put those who aren't needed for the next two months on furlough at 80% of their salary, and cut the hours of the rest to 80%, with a corresponding salary cut (80% is because that's the assistance the government is providing), in order to avoid making anyone redundant. I was one of those who will stay working.
Sadly they also had to rescind a job offer to a dev who was meant to be starting next month.
I'm pretty hopeful that whatever happens I should be OK. I work for a fairly large agency with a lot of clients who are household names, including high street banks, and it has the support of a large parent company. I've got eight and a half years experience, a fairly diverse skillset that includes both web and hybrid app dev, and have spent the last two years overhauling a painfully bad PHP legacy app into something remotely presentable. Even if the whole company went belly up, I should be able to find something.
That said, a financial situation like this is unprecedented, and it's deeply scary.
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Today my employer put those who aren't needed for the next two months on furlough at 80% of their salary, and cut the hours of the rest to 80%, with a corresponding salary cut (80% is because that's the assistance the government is providing), in order to avoid making anyone redundant. I was one of those who will stay working.
Sadly they also had to rescind a job offer to a dev who was meant to be starting next month.
I'm pretty hopeful that whatever happens I should be OK. I work for a fairly large agency with a lot of clients who are household names, including high street banks, and it has the support of a large parent company. I've got eight and a half years experience, a fairly diverse skillset that includes both web and hybrid app dev, and have spent the last two years overhauling a painfully bad PHP legacy app into something remotely presentable. Even if the whole company went belly up, I should be able to find something.
That said, a financial situation like this is unprecedented, and it's deeply scary.