I work in a technology that's great to work in but has a bad reputation in places like HN because of irrational bias, there's no recession and salaries are still going up. Glad it keeps the competition away.
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#12not affecting me personally, but last year we were hiring for a lead engineer (for a fortune 50 company) - got 2 resumes.
5-6 months later we needed another lead engineer and we got over 300 for the exact same position, same pay, same location.
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#13I've struggled to find a Software Engineer job for many months, even with FAANG on my resume. It's nowhere as easy as it was when I graduated college 7 years ago. I send out my resume and barely get any answers. I don't even get a chance to interview. That being said, I had a good luck streak in December! I'm waiting to hear back from several companies right now.
Good luck!
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#14I keep hearing whispering of an "AI boom" happening soon on HN but don't see in the real world. Has anyone seen signs either way?
You probably hear it from people that have to sell you AI-powered products. At best it'll turn into a bubble, but more realistically LLMs will not cause any economic boom in and of themselves, especially in these shaky times. Content generation is not really what the world is looking for to return to the highs of early 2010s.
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#15Well, I got laid off. I have a decent resume. In past job hunts, I got call backs on 50% of applications. Now responses are closer to 1%.
Sure seems recessionish to me.
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#16I work in a technology that's great to work in but has a bad reputation in places like HN because of irrational bias, there's no recession and salaries are still going up. Glad it keeps the competition away.
> irrational bias
Then say it. :)
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#17Personally it’s led me to try out some contract work on the side for small businesses, eg building little websites and performing technical SEO work via https://www.divinatetech.com
Eager to improve my non-technical skills with this work.
I’m curious to see how the field fluctuates in these next years with the upheaval of cheap interest and split opinions on doom/boon of tech workers via LLM automation.
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#18Sent a few hundred CVs last spring/summer, got maybe 5 interviews, got burnout and disgust at the modern tech hiring practice.
Since then, with the help of a few sporadic clients, government help, and living like a pauper I decided to go all in in becoming an entrepreneur, instead of continuing my 17+ year career as a consultant or someone else's employee. Seems like stuff hasn't improved in the past 9 months.
Not having a stable job is very stressful, but the interview rat race these days is more akin to real life Squid Game than anything I've experienced before. It is dehumanising. I'd rather be penniless, stressed, and working on my product at this point. If you can afford to, do it. Even if you don't, tbh.
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#19>depths of a serious tech recession?
Are we?
Who wants to be hired? (2023)
Oct: 547
Nov: 431
Dec: 461
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Who wants to be hired? (2022)
Oct: 272
Nov: 307
Dec: 200
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