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Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad?
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#32“Profile was flooded with job offers”? Do you mean job interviews?
I was on the market a few months ago. It was fine. Worse than 2021 but better than 2020 and 2019 (I had the same level on my resume in 2020 and 2021).
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#33Been looking for a year and a half for something full-time and permanent. No luck so far. Chopped about fifteen years off my resume, and that seemed to help get more interviews, but I think that backfired because then they were surprised by my wrinkles and bald spot and figured if I was lying about my experience, I was lying about other things too. One thing that does not help was a string of startups I worked for wh…
> Small part time gigs, some substitute teaching, bar-backing and construction work.
Was in the same boat.Did the audio-to-text transcribing gig on amazon mturk. It was a tossup between that & odd jobs at Walmart at that time. Recessions in usa is pretty brutal.
If you are so inclined, I suggest getting a cert & then hitting the shady indian outfits. They always have jobs so long as you have a recent cert. Can be anything - cert in GCP, or AWS or some cloud infra work will do. You have to study...but you have the time.
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#34Yes. I'm the CEO of Google and I can't even get an internship at Google But tbh yes, it seems job postings for software jobs are the lowest in 4 years, almost as low as the dip that occurred just after the pandemic. The COVID job boom was clearly temporary and is now being massively offset by AI https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?width=880&he... It's over. Best alpha for people who aren't being flooded r…
> It's over
Is there a good phrase for people that make sweeping definitive statements like this with fairly tepid evidence?
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#35As someone involved in hiring, there are a few factors going on: 1. There's no available headcount. No one is leaving since there are no opportunities elsewhere. Especially those on visas. 2. When we do have headcount, we get 1000 resumes within an hour or two. We also have a stack of referrals to get through first. A lot of these resumes are experienced folks with backgrounds in FAANG. 3. Supply remains high (100k C…
As someone who has recently hired within a FAANG, another problem is internal transfers and downsizing. The external hire process for a big company takes minimum 6 weeks. Within 24 hours of posting a job opening, I've got 20 internal transfers interested, all highly qualified, all familiar with our internal systems and processes, and all desperate to avoid being actually laid off from their team that is disappearing. My last two positions went to a returning ex-employee (who don't have to re-interview if they come back within 2 years) and to a transfer. I wanted to hire externally because I know there are good candidates out there, but it's impossible to justify waiting 6 weeks for the pipeline to close when you know that good internal candidates will get laid off if you don't take them, and the headcount likely will disappear anyway if it's not filled.
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#36Side bar: I've been back in the UK for a longer spell for the first time in years, and the number of adverts for "blue collar" jobs I've seen just walking around is unreal. So many places looking for kitchen staff, waiters, carers etc. Might just be that I've been in smaller towns with leaner recruitment pools, but it's been striking.
Probably related to Brexit right?
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#37What I find paradoxical is that despite the fact there's a lot of people "on the market" (or so many say), I'm having a hard time finding software engineers to fill a few open positions. Granted, I work for a small company doing things that may be considered boring and maybe people are looking elsewhere. I would be curious to know if that feels like the case for other companies too.
Maybe describe your company and tech stack here and leave an email address people could reach you? It seems like there are people looking in this thread.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the evidence it is being offset by AI? I haven't really seen that. I think it is mostly two factors: - Companies over-hired during the COVID boom and don't need to hire as much because they still have those people. It's like they did all of their hiring for a few years ahead of time. - Interest rates are still the highest in a long time. Tech hiring is disproportionately affected by this. You can throw in off…
My opinion there are five things going on: 1) Tech hasn't really innovated since the smart phone era. VR and web3 didn't work out. All the covid B2C subscription stuff didn't work out. Big data and SaaS only partially worked out. AI is pretty transparently a pump and not many people are investing in headcount for it. 2) Interest rates raise the risk-free rate of return so there's less impetus to dump money into specu…
Agreed with 1 and 4 the most. Almost everything that needs to be built digitally, has been built. Could stuff be improved? Of course, but many big companies, their growth will come from product and marketing, not technical improvements/new features, etc. Additionally, I think executives may be realizing that smaller, tighter, focused teams often outperform massive headcounts - i.e. "nine women, 1 month" staffing
As far as "too comfortable," absolutely. Those "follow me for my day at X" videos drive everyone insane. Workers insisting on remote. Multiple remote jobs. The fact that people who had it pretty good weren't satisfied and insisted on posting all of this publicly, embarrassing their employers, making work look more like a spa or daycare -- all you can say to them is, you did this to yourself.
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#39Well, at least I don't feel so alone now. Same situation here: LinkedIn is silent, or I'm getting really bad offers. My experience being mostly in Clojure certainly doesn't help either.
Plus, interviews have become really intense. I recently had an interview (the first one, "HR") that consisted of me talking about myself and my experience for 10 minutes, without any questions from the interviewer, and then it went straight into a coding challenge (a change-making problem, which I couldn’t finish in time).
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#40Been looking for a year and a half for something full-time and permanent. No luck so far. Chopped about fifteen years off my resume, and that seemed to help get more interviews, but I think that backfired because then they were surprised by my wrinkles and bald spot and figured if I was lying about my experience, I was lying about other things too. One thing that does not help was a string of startups I worked for wh…
Get set up and start fishing for c2c and 1099 gigs. You will be surprised how much they pay. A lot of people are billing two clients and everyone is happy.