The AI year: how we work, hire and grow now

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1. The AI year How we work, hire and grow now Fiona Chan - Partner & Technical Recruiter
2. How we are feeling?
3. Fear Excitement Exhaustion
4. 80% feel positive about AI’s impact on their role only 43% of one-word answers were positive
5. excited, empowered exhausted, tired and stressed
6. Is AI making us more productive?
7. 92% ship faster than they did a year ago
8. AI made building cheap. The expensive mistake now is building the wrong thing.
9. 57% more time in code review 45% code quality ⬇ 33% code quality ⬆
10. We've made code cheap to write, not cheap to check.
11. Impact in workplace a a a a a 68% worklo d & pressure ⬆ 44% job s tisf ction ⬇ 36% job s tisf ction ⬆
12. Biggest fear a 35% over-reli nce & losing their skills 10% job security
13. Skills & Roles
14. Skills - grown and declined • System design - 38% • AI/ML fund ment ls - 18% a • Testing & v lid tion - 13% a • Product thinking - 48% a Declined a Grown
15. Roles Product Design • 40% - seeing Product M n ger ship code • 38% - seeing designer ship code • 100% re seeing roles blend a a a Engineering
16. Interview process
17. 60% interview process has changed a (mostly on live coding interview & t ke-home test)
18. How to test for product thinking?
19. Job search
20. The 3 Ps: Passion, Presence, Project
21. Passion, Presence, Project • Experiment with AI - be cre tive with it. H ve n opinion on your tools. • Pick 1 -2 meetups nd ttend them consistently. T lk / write bout your le rnings. a a a a a a a a a a a a ff a a • Build something nd t lk bout the outcome: who used it, wh t ch nged, wh t you'd do di erently
22. Wrap up
23. 1. Solve the right problem 2. B l nce speed with qu lity a a a 3. Invest in people
24. The tools changed. The principles didn't.
25. Fiona Chan - Partner & Technical Recruiter ion @look he d.com. u a a a f a a linkedin.com/in/ ion kych n/ a f Full report