Personally, i have stopped trying and retired about 9-10 months ago. There's nothing there, i think the whole thing is dead.
it was running on fumes for almost a decade, now we are really at the end times...
Time to pivot
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And yet, there are other people prepared to say they continue to be contacted by recruiters currently.
I get one a week minimum, hundreds per year. I don’t follow up often enough to know whether they are real and separate etc though.
Appreciate the anecdote and your other comments on HN. But I strongly suspect you are incredibly atypical based on your background and previous work experience in ways that would tremendously down weight the probability that any part of your experience with recruiters would apply to even above average engineers.
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#205I had a friend with plenty of experience in HR get laid off. He looked for a job for 13 months. One of the top 3 smartest people I’ve ever known looked for seven months and had to take a big step back in his career, despite having Amazon and Home Depot on his resume. Both of them said that even getting an interview was almost impossibly hard. These are people in different parts of the county, and in different industr…
Don't want to discredit or invalidate your/your friend's experience, but I do want to offer some hope during these times where a lot of what you see on the web is doomer posts. From Google: The Jevons paradox occurs when technological improvements increase the efficiency of a resource, but the resulting drop in cost causes demand to rise so much that total consumption of that resource increases rather than decreases.…
To paraphrase Keynes, in the future we are all dead. His friend is suffering now, not in some theoretical far off future where the magic market had been blessed by the invisible hand.
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OK shitty job market means different things to different people. For my self, I was making over 300k, took a job (remote) at a little over 200, and now struggling to get that much and considering jobs at 170-180. I think the job market sucks, those jobs paying 300+ would normally respond to me aren't.
I don't even know what I would do with that much money. Maybe have 4 or 5 kids.
Honestly in a high COL city in the US, having 4-5 kids would be doable on $300k TC but it wouldn't be easy to give them more than a middle class lifestyle at best.
Elsewhere in the US in smaller towns, I could see it being much more feasible.
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#210Might vary depending on where you are and where you're applying to. I'm from the UK, spent a year and 500+ applications applying to remote or Gulf roles. Turned up nothing.