Two companies that I was in the process interviewing, cancelled the interviews this week. I am thankfully employed but I was thinking of leaving the company I work for. Having said that there are other companies still willing to hire.
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#252I’m about to leave my extremely safe job for a tiny startup. I have to put in notice by the end of the week. The startup seems to still want to hire me and is showing no signs of pulling the offer. I think they planned on getting more funding at the end of the year. I’m at a loss for what to do. I’m excited about the opportunity but am not sure that now is the right time to leave. I plan on calling and asking for mor…
Now would be about the worst time to join 99% of startups. Unless you are financially set and looking for an adventure, stick it out at the safe gig.
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#253At the beginning of the year, I decided it was time to find a new job after 10 years with my employer. I spent February doing interview prep and conducting interviews. Back then, the COVID-19 was mostly limited to China, markets and governments weren't terribly concerned about COVID-19. I accept a job offer, put in my two weeks notice, and my last day at was last Friday. Hardly anyone was seriously concerned about CO…
I quit my job in mid January because of burnout, left London for a couple of weeks and came back this Sunday. I’m looking for remote roles exclusively. Now I’m not sure if the timing is perfect or just plain terrible:) Also, I stopped reading the news. I just don’t think refreshing Twitter every 10 min whilst self isolating can be good to your mental health.
Working from remote is probably the only way for at least weeks if not months.
And yes, don't check the news too often. The real world doesn't move as fast as the refresh button.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chiming in here with a bit of data on the hiring side of things. I'm the cofounder of SharpestMinds, an ISA-powered mentorship marketplace for data scientists. For all the obvious reasons, we track the hiring rates for our grads very closely and have been keeping close tabs on the pandemic's effects on the tech job market. Our observations so far: 1. Hiring in tech has definitely not gone to zero, even for the junior…
60-70% drop meaning if it was 100 roles last month it's 30-40 this month?
Correct.
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#255Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange (Boston, MA https://poloniex.com/ ) is still hiring, crypto markets are doing fine - we make money whether it goes up or down. Interviews over Google Hangouts. http://poloniex.careers/
Is Poloniex remote or is everything onsite in BOS?
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A very large portion of my circles was aware that COVID was about to explode (...) Your circles seem to be the exception then. There are a lot of factors that affect personal perception of such matters, like proximity to inflicted areas, professional background (ex: medical), experiencing similar events in the past, etc. In hindsight it seems obvious that the world wasn't paying attention. But it took until Februar…
He's probably talking about the rationalist community, and people did. https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1233174331133284353
I assure you I am not talking about the aggressive curve-fitting community. Just...normal people. Nobody famous, not even any Chinese nationals. Just...fairly normal, if tech-worker-y, Americans and Europeans.
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#257This is probably the best time for some businesses like Airlines to upgrade and migrate their legacy software foundations. I hope they see it that way. But unfortunately that's not how investors look at it.
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#258What human-capital organizing platforms do we have, or can we stand up in short order? Linked and Indeed are overly spammed and enterprise, I don't expect them to pivot quickly.
Surely we can make a matching platform for and by tech.
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#259Got let go about 3 weeks ago now, not sure if my employer saw this coming or if their timing was just spot on. No one is interviewing at the moment and it looks like it's going to be at least another 2 weeks before people are even thinking about hiring. The employment situation is going to get much worse before it gets any better. Hang tight, keep applying and hope for the best.
I’ve had two interviews I the last two weeks, both over VC, and both FAANGs. So there seems to still be some activity, at least. But I feel like I’m cutting it a bit short here.
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#260At the beginning of the year, I decided it was time to find a new job after 10 years with my employer. I spent February doing interview prep and conducting interviews. Back then, the COVID-19 was mostly limited to China, markets and governments weren't terribly concerned about COVID-19. I accept a job offer, put in my two weeks notice, and my last day at was last Friday. Hardly anyone was seriously concerned about CO…
I was in the process of a job search while working at a foundering startup back in December. Interview processes were paused over the holidays and scheduled to resume in early January. Jan. 2, first day back at the old job, I was laid off. Had my final interview at another startup the following week and got an offer. Started end of January. We're all WFH for at least 2 weeks, and it's beginning to look like much longer than that. We've got connections to the retail sector, so I do wonder about that, but we have seen at least a short-term uptick in activity, presumably due to hoarding. Fingers crossed we all make it through this.