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Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by spicyusername »

throw_aws_inter wrote: post #16

I interviewed for 1.5 months (!!!) for AWS for a senior position, went through all the stages through the end. Then silence. I kept emailing the recruiters responsible for my interview, I kept getting out-of-office replies. Then I contacted some higher ups I found, told me they assigned my interview to other recruiters. No replies from them though. I have emailed them a bunch of times including the higher up. Then th…

That's terrible, but I can't say I'm surprised.

Amazon has done nothing but earn a reputation for treating it's employees, potential or otherwise, atrociously.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by gorbachev »

rvz wrote: post #9

One may suggest to 'learn to code', but it is not enough this time. Perhaps now one may say, it is time to 'learn to adapt', since with the recent release of ChatGPT now gives the excuse for managers to be more motivated to hire less engineers and programmers as the cheap money has essentially evaporated. So this time it is indeed different and I would expect less engineers to be hired and more programming jobs to be…

ChatGPT is not going to eat all the jobs. Can we stop this nonsense, please?

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by jdthedisciple »

throw_aws_inter wrote: post #16

I interviewed for 1.5 months (!!!) for AWS for a senior position, went through all the stages through the end. Then silence. I kept emailing the recruiters responsible for my interview, I kept getting out-of-office replies. Then I contacted some higher ups I found, told me they assigned my interview to other recruiters. No replies from them though. I have emailed them a bunch of times including the higher up. Then th…

Well I hope you didn't put all your eggs in the AWS basket ...

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by UncleMeat »

base698 wrote: post #19
robertlagrant wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> since with the recent release of ChatGPT now gives the excuse for managers to be inclined to hire less engineers and programmers as the cheap money has essentially evaporated I don't understand the relevance of ChatGPT to this.

I assume because I've seen ChatGPT successfully: - write a Gitlab ci job that tests python code and outputs a junit test report. - can you add code coverage? - write a sql table that has users, age, and a biography - write python that parses the above output from the table - now use a lexer and parser - create a unit test to verify it's correct. - write a perl one liner that parses a list of users and phone numbers I…

Okay. If there is somebody out there where the hardest part of their job is those tasks then that's not good for them.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by ghostoftiber »

I feel like this should be a "Who's hiring" thread.

But anyway - we're always hiring if you're into small consulting companies. We mostly do AWS, Azure, and not a lot of GCP (sad because I like GCP), and it's almost 100% K8s. You will have to be able to get a CKA, CKAD, or CKS at some point. Need to be in the US.

Send resumes to Josh@BoxBoat.Com

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by mrjin »

throw_aws_inter wrote: post #16

I interviewed for 1.5 months (!!!) for AWS for a senior position, went through all the stages through the end. Then silence. I kept emailing the recruiters responsible for my interview, I kept getting out-of-office replies. Then I contacted some higher ups I found, told me they assigned my interview to other recruiters. No replies from them though. I have emailed them a bunch of times including the higher up. Then th…

I would say not that bad if you take it from a different angle: what if you managed to get there and then laying off started?

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by rvz »

throwaway71271 wrote: post #11
rvz wrote: post #9

One may suggest to 'learn to code', but it is not enough this time. Perhaps now one may say, it is time to 'learn to adapt', since with the recent release of ChatGPT now gives the excuse for managers to be more motivated to hire less engineers and programmers as the cheap money has essentially evaporated. So this time it is indeed different and I would expect less engineers to be hired and more programming jobs to be…

This is just as good as a prediction as the alternative: ChatGPT will be the new gold age of programming, all you need in any company is only programmers, all kinds of programmers, no other job will be able to do anything of value. So everyone who knows how to do a for loop is safe. Or the extreme, we finally have to move to post-money society, because automation is no longer creating any jobs.

Except that my statement isn't extreme or supports either extreme. I said 'less' programmers, not 'none' or only programmers / all people being programmers.

I still stand by that no-one (including Big Tech companies) is safe, especially after the 2022 tech layoffs which happened to many and tools like ChatGPT will eventually reduce the need to hire lots of programmers like before.

It is not going to be the same as the hiring euphoria that happened last year.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by sneak »

throw_aws_inter wrote: post #16

I interviewed for 1.5 months (!!!) for AWS for a senior position, went through all the stages through the end. Then silence. I kept emailing the recruiters responsible for my interview, I kept getting out-of-office replies. Then I contacted some higher ups I found, told me they assigned my interview to other recruiters. No replies from them though. I have emailed them a bunch of times including the higher up. Then th…

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Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by nathias »

throw_aws_inter wrote: post #16

I interviewed for 1.5 months (!!!) for AWS for a senior position, went through all the stages through the end. Then silence. I kept emailing the recruiters responsible for my interview, I kept getting out-of-office replies. Then I contacted some higher ups I found, told me they assigned my interview to other recruiters. No replies from them though. I have emailed them a bunch of times including the higher up. Then th…

ghosting is pretty standard in my experience, 1-2 months of interviewing and testing then nothing is pretty standard in the industry

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by inglor »

I haven't interviewed myself and I've suffered working for a corporate that is hiring but also not hiring dealing with the same sort of bullshit "throw_aws_inter" is dealing with but from the other side (being told simultaneously we really need to hire + that we're on a hiring freeze and still hiring in practice).

I do however mentor a bunch of juniors (less than 2 years of experience) and the 3 that got laid off got a bunch of offers within a month. It took more interviews but my experience from the last few weeks is that there are still a lot more jobs than applicants.

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