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Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by asdfman123 »

lamberciak wrote: post #138

Really sorry for everyone affected by the current situation. We have open roles at DuckDuckGo for SREs and director level hands-on engineers (in mobile and frontend). There should be a senior frontend engineer role coming up soon too. Check out all open roles at: https://duckduckgo.com/hiring/#open . We're a fully distributed team of 85 aiming to raise the standard of trust online and have been profitable for over 5…

DuckDuckGo is a great product and it's great you're doing well, but apparently I'm conditioned now to feel sick after looking at exponential graphs.

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Post by loriverkutya »

danpalmer wrote: post #221
junkilo wrote: post #217

my new company just withdrew their offer (I started in a couple weeks) and I just left my previous gig (AV startup). backend+infra full stack python/go stuff the new company's revenue went from 7 figures+ a month to 0 because of the virus and they are rightly freaking out

What market are then in that went from 7 figures a month to zero?

Hotel industry for example.

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Post by User23 »

treyfitty wrote: post #281

I was laid off in 2018 because I took a generous 5-month paternity leave. 2 months after my leave, I was given the pink slip. Contacted a lawyer and was pretty much told "you have no proof it was BECAUSE you took the leave." Based on my conversation with my boss, I know for a fact that's why. His quote: "H1B's are cheap and loyal. The mere fact that you committed to taking the full 5 months showed 0 loyalty." This wa…

No lawyer worth his salt will take a wrongful termination case without the prospect of being awarded punitive damages and that is a very high bar to clear.

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Post by ryandrake »

Eiriksmal wrote: post #66
Frost1x wrote: post #57

It's going to get bloody out there soon. Minimize your expenses if you don't already do this. The market was already fairly saturated from what I inferred last year when I jumped ship during a move. Most organizations did not appear to be seriously hiring, they were hunting for a labor bargain or someone to add to their future contact list for quick turnaround when demand rose. If you didn't think it was an employers…

>market was already fairly saturated ... did not appear to be seriously hiring ... an employers market This was my experience in the job market last year, as well. A lot of open listings, but curiously picky requirements for who would be considered for a role. I definitely got the impression that companies were just idly trawling for fresh meat, without seriously pursuing any senior talent (read: highly experienced a…

> A lot of open listings, but curiously picky requirements for who would be considered for a role. I definitely got the impression that companies were just idly trawling for fresh meat, without seriously pursuing any senior talent

This has been my observation for the last decade or so. A lot of companies fishing but not many actual worms on the hooks. I expect it to get even worse now that we're back in a bear market.

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Post by dillonmckay »

eloff wrote: post #250

Just signed a lease for a larger apt with twice the rent. Got laid off within the hour. The new landlord is not wanting to let me out of the lease. They already accepted the deposit and first months rent. Really bad timing.

Move in and don’t pay anymore rent.

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Post by worstestes »

sqs wrote: post #200

Sourcegraph CEO here. We build universal code search for developers. Our team is all-remote (all countries and timezones OK). We're hiring for engineering, design, and product roles (+ others): https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr... https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr... and https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers#readme for a full list of roles. We are growing quickly…

I appreciate the information! Really enjoy the way you and your team have laid out your company information and resources in the links above.

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Post by adsteel_ »

_5659 wrote: post #274

I was in the midst of several interview processes and things were looking optimistic. Everything changed literally overnight. Interviews were cancelled, postponed indefinitely, or I'd be plain 100% ghosted by a company. I'm extremely distraught because I've been looking for employment for a while now and I don't know how I'll support myself. Even my remote opportunities seem to have vanished as uncertainty increases.

I think there's reason for optimism. Myself and a few former colleagues, all at different companies now, are all seeing a big uptick in usage because their product is being used more as the world goes remote. That will take some time to translate to new job openings and of course time for folks to actually get through the pipeline. Personally I've started lobbying my company to start hiring sooner than later. We have the demand and I know a lot of great engineers are in your position or will be soon.

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Post by jbkiv »

conductr wrote: post #75
BossingAround wrote: post #2

Seeing as the stock market is utterly tanking, I would be very surprised if the world didn't go into recession, and consequently, if there weren't a number of people losing their jobs in order to make the businesses lean again. This is especially true of countries like the US, where it seems very simple to fire someone.

People keep saying “recession” but that sounds like they don’t understand the implications of what’s happening to the world economy right now. “Global depression” seems like a more appropriate term but time will tell. I’m a CFO of $300M company that employees ~2200 employees. We’re out of cash in 6 weeks if our revenue continues to decline. Down 30% vs last year this week (which is good compared to most). Doing layof…

Thank you. No this is not an unpopular opinion. yes, global depression. Veteran of dot com crash here. You are spot on. I can't believe that some folks still don't realize what is happening.

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Post by cyberpunk »

aliswe wrote: post #145
Kwantuum wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to say, your online presence is dreadfully low for a web developer.

As a freelancer I've had zero online presence, not even LinkedIn. I have almost only ever got assignments through connections and reaching out to businesses myself. Garret, just emailed you.

Seconding this; you don't need to pimp yourself out with a showcase, website, or linkedin (although linkedin does help you connect with a lot of recruiters and many of them will have contracts that are probably suitable).

Until a month ago, there was plenty of work for everyone. We will see what happens now, but don't waste time building a fancy website; go to some meetups (oh wait.. maybe don't) or speak with some recruiters and I'm sure the snowball will start to form :)

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Post by Evgeniuz »

slimsag wrote: post #29
Evgeniuz wrote: post #14

I suffered pay cut due to outbreak affecting my company. It was profitable and growing steadily, but due to outbreak people stopped using it (and paying). Right now we're in the red, this is not sustainable, so I think in a couple of months I will be laid off (unless situation stabilizes by then). It's a bit scary to be in this position, as I know most companies here stopped hiring, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to…

Sorry to hear this, I dug through your profile to see if maybe I can help. I can't guarantee anything, of course, but we're hiring Go developers at Sourcegraph and are 100% remote so if you meet the other qualifications here please do consider applying with us: https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr...

Thanks, I've applied. Didn't know Sourcegraph is a remote company. BTW, I've used it on one of my projects before and it was really easy to set up and proved great for onboarding new developers, so thanks for developing it :)
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