Companies still hiring software engineers in 2023
It is layoff and hiring freeze season, but behold the old-tech, aviation and trad-fi sectors that are still hiring software engineers by the horde!
Yeah there are layoffs happening. But there are pockets where software engineering hiring is also in fact increasing. From my unique vantage point I can see that those who got outcompeted in the hiring market in 2021 are backfilling now, at a fast rate. Examples below.
Big banks are all hiring (latest openings, within last few days) Not the sexiest jobs on the market by the usual playbook, of going to bigtech and product startups, but these are good jobs actually, and pay near, or just above median.
Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan
Big retail companies with Indian GDCs (global development centers) are also hiring, lots of new openings lately I have personally worked at Target before, and engineering in these places is actually much better than what you expect from outside (Side note: IKEA's funny naming)
Walmart, Lowe’s, Target, IKEA
The old-tech, or core-tech companies (who make machines, and electronics and industrial tools) are also hiring. Albeit the roles are different here. More embedded engineering, electronics background helps, and C++ & C# is also fairly common. Honeywell, Bosch, General Electric and Siemens
Guess which other sector is back to building phase? Aviation ofcourse. And again lots of software roles, but again be warned this is not info-systems or web-CRUDs. Fairly different types of software though they have consumer-facing apps (which they outsource)
Airbus, Boeing, Delta Airlines, United Airlines
Airlines back home are hiring too as well Indigo and AirAsia both do in-house development of their consumer platforms (apps, websites, ticketing). And thus they have openings in web dev as well as DevOps.
Ok, if you are too bored with the "unsexy" companies, there are some sexier ones too. Deliveroo opened India GDC recently. Atlassian continues to hire in India. So is Grab
Another sector - cloud automotive services. Tekion and it's competitor CDK both are hiring
If you thought Fintech was having a bad time, think again Let the real fintech stand up. The ones actually running most of the global finance infra and making profits. Paypal, Visa, Mastercard and American Express are all hiring with lots of open positions.
Sneaker sales are obviously not down, and Adidas and Nike are also hiring software engineers. Nike has some seriously good fitness products (apps, backend, data analytics) - can give Fitbit a run for their money.
Intuit is hiring like crazy too. LOTS of openings. So is SAP and Salesforce (not as many roles though) Also Zoho, which just reached $1B in revenues. P.S. Salesforce has done layoffs in US
It is not like Indian startups (rather scaleups) are not hiring RazorPay is hiring many roles YUBI (formerly CREDAvenue) as well Some roles in INMOBI too
I wrote the above thread on Twitter. In responses got to know of a lot more companies still hiring too.
Upstox is hiring
So is Clarisights. Also a payments and corporate card SaaS Airbase is hiring. Events and experience booking platform Headout is hiring as well. And finally another logistics company - LogiNext.