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Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by pojzon »

noworriesnate wrote: post #138
dustedcodes wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a consultant (someone who takes short-/midterm contracts) you can make $1000/day (probably more in the Valley). Many more experienced developers go down that route instead of being in a full time position. You work for a few months, make the income of a year and then you holiday for the rest of the year.

How do I get those contracts? I'm a full-stack developer with 10 years of experience, also some data analytics experience. I got laid off almost two weeks ago. I would love to start my own contracting business. Do you have any insight?

There is a lot of contractors and you have to be extremely good to do what the dude/dudette said.

Like - have a unique skillset, have multiple certifications, recommendations, proven B2B experience as a consultant.

Then getting contracts is easy. Probably less easy now tho.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by yumbrand »

DeathArrow wrote: post #139

Why does OP ask about people layd off? Are there some big waves of people being fired? I don't live in the US and I didn't read much news recently, so that's why I ask. In my country there aren't many people people in It (if any) layd off.

Yeah, Meta cut 11k people, Amazon has a hiring freeze right now, things are slower at Google hiring, not sure about Microsoft or any of the other big tech companies. Partially driven by interest rates disproportionately affecting tech, partially these companies are just missing earnings a lot and needing to cut headcount. Not sure how private companies are faring, but probably similarly getting pressure to cut headcount -- would imagine that this would start happening in other countries too (e.g., Canada sees lagging interest rates vs. U.S.)

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by that_guy_iain »

stkdump wrote: post #45
that_guy_iain wrote: post #22

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Honestly, German unemployment money. I'm entitled to 2/3 of my original salary for 360 days. 2/3 of my salary is enough to live on while still saving a bit of money every month. I paid all the taxes for 7-years, so I figure I should take advantage of the unemployment money.

Well, you should not publicly admit that you aren't looking for work, otherwise you might risk that sweet unemployment money.

There are also some legal stuff preventing me from getting a job just now so I'm in an area where I legally can't even look for a job right now. Germans and their red tape :)

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by mwint »

noworriesnate wrote: post #138
dustedcodes wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a consultant (someone who takes short-/midterm contracts) you can make $1000/day (probably more in the Valley). Many more experienced developers go down that route instead of being in a full time position. You work for a few months, make the income of a year and then you holiday for the rest of the year.

How do I get those contracts? I'm a full-stack developer with 10 years of experience, also some data analytics experience. I got laid off almost two weeks ago. I would love to start my own contracting business. Do you have any insight?

Second this, I’m full-stack with experience on everything from embedded firmware to frontend. I’d really like to try this route, but I’m not sure how to get in the door.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by hawk_ »

tschellenbach wrote: post #116

We're hiring, but very slowly/carefully atm ( https://getstream.io/team/ ). It's insane, similar companies to us used to raise $100-$200M with our metrics, at the moment i'm not even trying to raise additional capital. On the other hands it's nice that there is less hype and you can just focus on building and real progress.

Nice. What's the compensation range for this role in Remote (EMEA) or AMS? https://getstream.io/careers/job/4617451003/

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by mwint »

HDThoreaun wrote: post #69
300bps wrote: post #20

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>But I'm looking at the job market and think it might be better to give it 4-6 months. I'm fascinated by this. How does one do this? Two options I can think of are being independently wealthy and being dependent on another. Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"?

I make 180k and spend around 35k a year. Easy to save money when only providing for yourself and living with roommates. I live in a major American city and don’t feel like I’m penny pinching at all, but I’m not really into “classic” money spending activities like drinking and shopping. Saved well over 3 years of expenses this year alone.

Is that 180k base or TC (including stock, etc)?

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by himanshuy »

noworriesnate wrote: post #138
dustedcodes wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a consultant (someone who takes short-/midterm contracts) you can make $1000/day (probably more in the Valley). Many more experienced developers go down that route instead of being in a full time position. You work for a few months, make the income of a year and then you holiday for the rest of the year.

How do I get those contracts? I'm a full-stack developer with 10 years of experience, also some data analytics experience. I got laid off almost two weeks ago. I would love to start my own contracting business. Do you have any insight?

Lets talk. I have recently started consulting focused on data analytics. May be we could collaborate.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by [deleted] »

bm3719 wrote: post #124
throwaway20382 wrote: post #61

I have 15 years experience, run large production sites, our company sold for near a billion dollars to a foreign company recently, and they are doing layoffs based on "order by salary desc" . My days are numbered. I do SRE mainly, but I code all day and run teams. Company 1: Terrible over-engineered music firm (no users). Full 7 rounds, exams (which were easy shit), but "VP" ghosted me, he was a former twitter guy, s…

> Finished the exam in LUA for a openresty opensource project (didn't even know lua). Everything worked nicely. I was told he didn't like how i laid out the lua. I like take-home tests too, but am reluctant to do them in languages I don't have a lot of recent experience in. Not that I can't ramp up enough to get them working, but when someone who writes that language every day looks at the code of a guy who just read…

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Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by [deleted] »

killingtime74 wrote: post #91
the_only_law wrote: post #36

I was laid off from an over leveraged startup-type company you haven’t heard of. The search so far has been pretty bad. Probably in part because of the timing (a week before thanksgiving, but it’s the same story every time. Any job I want I won’t get and any job I don’t want I can get. I expect things to maybe pick up a little in early December, but I’m honestly kinda defeated. My last job was far from perfect, but I…

Hang in there, it's only been one week?

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