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Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by hankchinaski »

jaxomlotus wrote: post #66

Here's the flip side: I was hiring (at a stealth vc-funded startup). I reached out to every designer and coder laid off from Twitter and Amazon (one of my investors sent me a spreadsheet that those laid off folks added their contact info to). I didn't receive a single interested response to my reach outs. Now granted, I'm sure they were bombarded with lots of startup offers and being picky what company/stage they wer…

Supposedly people have lots of savings and don’t need to rush to settle for a downgrade. Especially when coming from top tier places like faang

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by sumeno »

giantg2 wrote: post #161
dixie_land wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My observation is that recent layoffs affect engineers with different seniority very differently. Senior devs I know who got laid off are just enjoying their time off (with pay! if you consider the severance) after the rocketing market in 2021 (and maybe even H1 22) made them whole and financially secure. And they won't be entertaining a startup unless significant equity or big leveling up (eg Principal or Director).…

"they'd be willing to take anything." That would apply to me too. I have 10 years in the industry but have been underpaid and have a family. My current plan if I get fired is to work at Walmart or Lowes until I can find another job.

If you're underpaid and employed the now is the time to look for that new job, not after you're fired and working at Walmart

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

candiddevmike wrote: post #37
bugbuddy wrote: post #17

I was a senior dev at a big tech and got laid off in November. I have applied to hundreds of places. Not a lot of responses. I have been doing interview preps the whole time. It has been very demoralizing and I am thinking of switching careers to something else. I have been considering skilled trades. I like carpentry in particular.

Did you give leetcode tests during interviews while you were working at big tech?

Is the implication “if you did, and you’re having problems passing those tests now, that’s karmic retribution”?

If so, please keep in mind that interviewers at big tech generally have to follow the HR script for interviewing. I have very little leeway as an interviewer in how to conduct the interview. I can select from a narrow group of problems, and I ask each candidate a couple of “soft skills” questions to gauge their level of experience, but the bulk of the interview still relies on their performance on the technical assessment.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by sharemywin »

giantg2 wrote: post #161
dixie_land wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My observation is that recent layoffs affect engineers with different seniority very differently. Senior devs I know who got laid off are just enjoying their time off (with pay! if you consider the severance) after the rocketing market in 2021 (and maybe even H1 22) made them whole and financially secure. And they won't be entertaining a startup unless significant equity or big leveling up (eg Principal or Director).…

"they'd be willing to take anything." That would apply to me too. I have 10 years in the industry but have been underpaid and have a family. My current plan if I get fired is to work at Walmart or Lowes until I can find another job.

pretty sure unemployment pays better than walmart.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by axvk »

Laid of from Meta with 10+ years of experience. Very low and slow response rate from big tech, but fintech and startups are replying pretty frequently. Most startups are willing to discuss higher roles. It's still a pay cut, but it's not too bad.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by sumtechguy »

nfw2 wrote: post #179

I was laid off in June. This coincided with my mom being diagnosed with cancer, and because I had a fair amount of saving, I took some time to support family and work on some personal projects. I started looking again at the start of this year, and it's been rough, at least compared to my last job search where I had multiple offers in under two weeks. I've submitted ~50 applications so far, most with a non-generic co…

I had that same exp about 5 years ago. I have heard tailoring your resume for each one helps.

The funny one was one that came back 2 years after I had another job and rejected me. I had to go dig up my notes and see what I had applied for!

My internal network was the same as yours with lots of 'nothing here'.

Most of my luck has been like you, with 3rd party recruiters. Unless I reach out to them directly. Then they suddenly have nothing. One of them just for fun I called them every week but 'we currently do not have anything' which I knew was rubbish and I would pull items off their own site and show them. But if they have something that tweaked their buzzword bingo they blow up your phone. Getting a recruiter who likes to hustle is the key.

Only thing I regret for the 'time off' was not starting to look sooner. I figured it was a 1-2 month tops thing. Turned into 8 months of looking. What is really annoying is if you do not have a job they do not want you. But have a job and suddenly 2-3 calls a day.

Hiring is broken in a very weird way. But nothing really clear how to fix it. Adding more fizz-buzz testing is not going to fix it.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by volkadav »

The startup I was at had a ~10% layoff mid last September that I and several other senior (i.e. expensive) folks were caught in. I started a new, equivalent job in mid-November. It probably would've been quicker but my family and I have some somewhat edge case circumstances in play at the moment that mean I needed a job that'd let me be remote outside of the US. Some of that time too was choosing between two pretty compelling offers, so.

My deepest sympathies to anyone else facing this process right now. Even in a reasonably healthy (if not wildly overheated) hiring market, facing a layoff sucks. Best wishes to everyone out there.

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Post by bombcar »

jaclaz wrote: post #108
bombcar wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flipping can work but it can be much harder to be reasonably profitable without insane appreciation. Your best bet is fixers - houses with obvious major issues that everyone is scared of but you know you can fix reasonably cheaply. This can mean buying a $500k house with major foundation damage for $100k because everyone is scared - but you know a whole foundation replacement will only run you $200k. https://johntree…

Well your own link states how fixers are not really a good idea, but you want "disasters" and trasform them in "fixers". And it is not like you can find such disasters easily, nor that you can easily be able to make them into fixers, without years of previous experience. The whole approach, "everyone is scared but you know ..." is based on the assumption that you know more than anyone else (possibly including many pe…

Yeah, that's the whole problem with "make money in real estate" - either it requires (somewhat specialized) knowledge and risk-taking, or you're just gambling on insane appreciation and leveraging that.

Anything that "anyone can do" is going to explode at some point.

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Post by layer8 »

whstl wrote: post #232
layer8 wrote: post #30

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What’s the salary on the offers you have, and in which region of Germany is that? Just curious.

Berlin. 140k and 150k but I'm still shopping.

Thanks! Are those IC or project/team lead positions?
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