Stage 2 · Lesson 4 of 6
Audit your own exposure
An is an honest score of how vulnerable your role is, so you know where to act. Look at four things. Work: is it close to or customers, or an experiment?
Tasks: how much of your week is work AI already does well? Replaceability: how many people could take over your work within a month, inside the company or in a cheaper location? Evidence: is your recent impact written down where decision makers can see it?
Score each from low to high and be strict. The result is not a prediction. It tells you which of the next stages to put most effort into.
Common trapscoring yourself on effort and loyalty, which rarely appear on any layoff spreadsheet.
A question to check yourself, an AI practice session and 1 cheat sheet entry come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it
Resources for this stage
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- GuideFreeThe Pragmatic Engineer
Gergely Orosz
Free posts that explain how tech companies plan cuts, reorganise and decide headcount
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- r/ExperiencedDevsGo deeper
How experienced engineers read reorganisations and decide when to move