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Now that's interesting - I haven't paid much attention to the HPC job market in years. Are you a HPC system administrator, HPC dev, or both?
I'm a HPC system administrator at a DoE lab.
Because that would keep you safe from outsourcing.
its the worst i've seen since 2000
It's possible my interview and other skills have declined, but after being rejected only once in the first 25 years of my career (when I was fresh out of school and terrible at interviewing), I've now been rejected from a half dozen jobs where I got to the panel interview. This included one where they said they planned to make an offer but ended up going with a different candidate. Another where it felt like a perfect match but then they never even got back to me. Another where I bombed a dynamic programming problem that leetcode puts at its most difficult rating. YMMV but I think it's tough out there.
Not deciding based on feelings or opinions or votes, or on chasing opportunities or shirking danger, etc. Practice daily in small decisions, and the big ones will come more easily.
Beyond the raw numbers of layoffs, there's clearly a great number of other companies currently have hiring freezes on.
There's simply little to no job postings on right now. Of course it's the worst time of year for listings, and things usually improve in Spring, but it's hard to be optimistic.
Companies have gone super saiyan on outsourcing. Its a nightmare for generalists, newbies, web devs, front end, run of the mill cloud and sysadmin. Literally worst in history possibly. Anything that can be easily outsourced to an Indian or Latam candidate If you have a security clearance that cant be outsourced or use pytorch everyday youre prob fine. If youre a specialist on some field its never been better. I think…
But, it's a bad market, especially for junior.
Companies have gone super saiyan on outsourcing. Its a nightmare for generalists, newbies, web devs, front end, run of the mill cloud and sysadmin. Literally worst in history possibly. Anything that can be easily outsourced to an Indian or Latam candidate If you have a security clearance that cant be outsourced or use pytorch everyday youre prob fine. If youre a specialist on some field its never been better. I think…
its the worst i've seen since 2000
* Big investors almost never invest the year leading into a general election. They already spent all that money on bribes and lobbying.
* So much of the US had already outsourced a great part of their manufacturing.
* Much of that manufacturing went to china. (be sure the check the news that china is making in the US today)
* We are more politically divided than ever before (I don't think this is mutually exclusive to the US)
* We are experiencing (in the US) the largest cost burdens ever seen for renters source: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/reports/fil...
* There have been many reports of large lay offs in not just the tech sectors.
* Most of our current employment numbers are politically motivated lies or exaggerations
* AI has pushed a 6% increase requirement on development productivity
* There are vastly more boot camps and junior and mid level developers available in the market.
* Remote work make the market global when it was still very local for many.
I feel like there are many more bullet points to add.