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Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by tathougies »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #97
tathougies wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recession in a technical sense, yes, but not in a societal sense. A recession typically implies that people don't want to buy stuff or don't have the funds to. This time however, consumer demand is going to be probably the highest it's ever been the moment the quarantines are lifted.

> " This time however, consumer demand is going to be probably the highest it's ever been the moment the quarantines are lifted. " With the huge number of small businesses collapsing, it seems unlikely that the immense numbers of newly unemployed (likely including myself) are going to be have any spare cash to drive demand when the quarantines are lifted.

Government is giving the businesses free money. And the newly unemployed are going to benefit from (1) free money from unemployment insurance, and (2) nowhere to spend it in the next few weeks, which means (3) lots of money to spend.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by codingdave »

Frost1x wrote: post #57

It's going to get bloody out there soon. Minimize your expenses if you don't already do this. The market was already fairly saturated from what I inferred last year when I jumped ship during a move. Most organizations did not appear to be seriously hiring, they were hunting for a labor bargain or someone to add to their future contact list for quick turnaround when demand rose. If you didn't think it was an employers…

I can second that - I'm not actively looking to move, but I get recruiters who contact me, and always tell them politely what it would take to inspire me to consider a move, which amounts to an above-market raise. A year ago, they at least would entertain my requirements and push a bit, maybe ask the hiring manager if the salary could go higher. Recently, though, I get quick replies of 'Nope, we're not a match'.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by incog_nit0 »

Cyberdog wrote: post #63
Kwantuum wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to say, your online presence is dreadfully low for a web developer.

What do you mean by that?

Not the OP and I like your profile page. If you do find you want to mess with your profile page I personally had good luck with this theme: http://ttleadx.wpengine.com/freelancer/

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I didn’t make it nor am I affiliated with it - but it was a quick and easy way of generating a polished freelancer page for myself.

Good ways to find gigs as a freelancer are toptal, moonlight, yunojuno, bark, stack overflow (get a good score by answering questions).

Bit of advice a friend gave and I have yet to try out: If you want to find local clients go to meetups, networking stuff where you would likely be the only software developer and people will likely be interested (obviously one for after this crisis has passed).

Good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by namc »

My entire department got laid off. While some people are local, I was here on the work visa, and I was six months away from getting PR allowing free market access.

Now No one is hiring, people are retracting job offers and cancelling interviews at the last minute with no definite timeline.

Interviewing for bigN takes a lot of prep, and there is really no time, midst whatever little interviews I have lined up. This is so exhausting.

If anyone is hiring in EMEA, Canada (but would need visa sponsorship) I’m open to conversation.

6 years of work exp as backend/devops engineer. Skilled in Java, Golang, php. Worked on distributed systems, reservoir sampling on petabytes of data, Cassandra & Elasticsearch, timeseries analysis.

Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by tathougies »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #94
tathougies wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recession in a technical sense, yes, but not in a societal sense. A recession typically implies that people don't want to buy stuff or don't have the funds to. This time however, consumer demand is going to be probably the highest it's ever been the moment the quarantines are lifted.

not if everyone loses their jobs in the interim.

It is highly unlikely that this will happen. Temporary layoffs are extremely likely, and extremely good, because they result in high unemployment claims (which the federal gov't is now funding even more), and will mean the businesses survive to rehire them. Nothing fundamental has changed about what people would like to do. These measures are temporary. That's my opinon.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by pravula »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #11

Does anyone have advice from 2000/2008 about what happens to immigrants on visas? When the work dries up do we all just have to leave and go home?

Yes. On a H1B, you might have 60 days to find a new employer or change your visa status. https://www.murthy.com/2017/03/06/grace-period-nonimmigrant-...

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by mkagenius »

edouard-harris wrote: post #76
lynnetye wrote: post #25

I'm the founder of Key Values, which helps software engineers find teams that share their values. Not only do I live in the Bay Area and have many founder friends, but it is also my full-time job to connect tech startups that are hiring w/ devs looking for new roles, so I think I have a good view on this. I'm still gathering information on how coronavirus is impacting the job market, but what I know now is that many…

Chiming in here with a bit of data on the hiring side of things. I'm the cofounder of SharpestMinds, an ISA-powered mentorship marketplace for data scientists. For all the obvious reasons, we track the hiring rates for our grads very closely and have been keeping close tabs on the pandemic's effects on the tech job market. Our observations so far: 1. Hiring in tech has definitely not gone to zero, even for the junior…

> 60-70% drop in hires compared to our original (pre-COVID) projections for the month

what was your original projection

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by bdcravens »

Peretus wrote: post #19
bdcravens wrote: post #3

What skills do you have outside of front-end development? How many different frameworks do you know?

I had a decent amount of contracting work going before accepting the position that I had most recently, so I will probably start offering that again, depending on what kind of response I get from the applications I submit. This most recent job I got from posting in the monthly `Who's Hiring` thread back in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205867 As far as frameworks, I'm quite familiar with React and Reac…

We're not hiring, but I would encourage you to add at least one backend language to your repetoire, and some ops (like basic AWS, Docker, etc). Flexibility is what will make you valuable, and tbh, in a downturn I think front-ends will be deprioritized.
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