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Good. Snapped something up that met my salary expectations after 60 days of searching hard. By hard I mean I abused LinkedIn, I messaged everyone I knew in every company I saw that was actively hiring and asked if they’d refer. Then I messaged everyone else letting them know I was on the market. Then I attended meetups when I wasn’t applying. I worked harder getting a job than I am working this current job.
What helped you land your current job more? The network you already had or the cold messages?
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i’ll get called a paid actor but i legit used rezi when i was laid off in December 22 and it was a big help. I got a job in February 23 with the help of Rezi. Would recommend. Just use it wisely.
could you explain how it helped? other than AI support to write your job descriptions and cover letter i don't see anything useful
I recently made a new business partner while interviewing for a position in a company that was just all sorts of wrong. The office manager listed for marketing but the guy wanted salespeople. We ended up hitting it off and now we're working on setting up a few new businesses together. Worked out great. Hopefully I can start hiring some teams, soon, and get some jobs out on the market.
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I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty tr…
true, at the same time your bumblebeelabs site is down ...
Bad. DevOps/Software Engineer with 20+ years experience. ~100 applications this year, a good number of interviews, but no offers yet. (2.5 calls this week scheduled) It seems I either get: - proto-startups with ~5 people and no concrete revenue stream, or - 5k-person enterprises who want someone with a very specific skillset Both are fine, but they're picky... as am I, so I'm doing my own consulting for a bit. What h…
> who want someone with a very specific skillset I’m also probably going to look for a job soon. Do you think that being very skilled in a niche could help if there is work in that niche or would you think that even those jobs are gone?
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Nah. I live in SF. I'm fine with going to an office. I'm fine with anything at this point.
Take this for what it's worth, but a recruiter that I know has told me that a lot of companies in California are now reaching out to recruiters to hire out of state for the obvious reason - lesser pay. Something to ponder. If you're really desperate maybe look into other regions.
Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but…
I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty tr…
Do you all actually dive deep on every resume?
Pretty bad. I’ve got a lot of experience as an IC, manager, and leader, and it doesn’t seem to matter; companies seem much more picky (“you were great but we want someone with more tenure in ”) or wedded to cargo cult methods (the leetcode places). I haven’t extensively tapped my network for referrals, but I get a bad vibe from those, too. I’ve hit up about six folks and they all came back empty - no opportunities, e…
This was my exact experience. I’ve been out of work for a year and I’m more jaded than ever.
I finally got a job through what I assume was nepotism. It was the worst interview I’ve done lately, awkward, because I didn’t have any experience in the particular tech stack, but I got the offer.
What pissed me off were companies ghosting after doing the full set of rounds onsite. At one point, I was interviewing for a position a third party recruiter contacted me about. It wasn’t great, but it would pay the bill and I was desperate. It seemed like a decent fit given my last experience too. I got all the way to the final round which I had to travel hours for. At the end of the internet, one of the people even said “I imagine you’ll be hearing from us soon”. But they just ghosted me. Hell they ghosted the recruiter, who a couple weeks later was calling me asking if I had heard anything because they weren’t talking to him. If a company ghosts after an initial round or two, ok, whatever, but if I go the full distance and you don’t have the respect to even give me a yes or no, fuck you.