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> With Trump (and Silicon Valley behind him) pushing to lower interest rates - if he was to win, it's possible to boost the tech job market
The Fed is independent of the Executive in the United States.
Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?
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#12I have to say, looking at the jobs recently for where I am in the UK it does not seem to have picked up where I am either. Luckily, remote jobs exist.
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#13Also in the UK and can confirm very sluggish. I’m struggling to even get phone calls back from recruiters.
I would love to switch career path too. I’ve spent 6 years doing software development and vulnerability research in a heavily customer facing role, and would now like to look at something like solutions engineering. The reality is that all these companies likely have 100+ better qualified applicants, and there aren’t many companies who would like to take a gamble given the more attractive alternatives.
Don’t give up, I’m sure the right thing will come along! You’re not alone, if that’s any consolation at all.
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#14International recruiters seems to have stopped all LinkedIn activities, but job postings remain pretty high in Denmark. It's a wide mix of jobs as well, but in my area at least, it's all established companies, no startups.
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> With Trump (and Silicon Valley behind him) pushing to lower interest rates - if he was to win, it's possible to boost the tech job market The Fed is independent of the Executive in the United States.
> The Fed is independent of the Executive in the United States.
That was high on Trump's list of things to change.
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#16US East Coast === Also Dead. edit: I'm a frontend focused JS/TS dev with 5 years experience and I was laid off at the end of May and never before has my anxiety been this high about landing another SWE role. At this point I've been heavily considering some sort of "hold over job" just to keep the lights on and keep me from going crazy, but I'm hoping I don't have to go down that route.
What industries/verticals are you looking in?
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#17Very sluggish, although not totally dead (I am in Texas, USA). I'm getting some part-time work. I have the impression maybe a bit better than a couple months ago, but still very slow.
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#18Way better than 2023. 5 YOE web developer. From Argentina, though, we are benefitting from offshoring of course. But last year I had months with 0 reach outs. Nowadays every week at least 2 to 3 even with the looking for job Linkedin feature deactivated.
Last month around day 10 I made [this](https://i.imgur.com/uWoGaM3.png) taking note of reach outs. My personal anecdata, ofc...
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#19Alaska and it's no longer existent.
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#20It’s been a year ago today I got laid off. I have had a handful in interviews in the past year. The year before I had 5 interviews a week.
I’m in Silicon Valley and a software engineer.