There are a lot of exciting opportunities in the space industry for those looking for a field change.
Here is a site that aggregates jobs from major Space companies https://rocketcrew.space/
Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?
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How many CEO's are CEO'ing for more than one company? If they can do it, why not the plebs?
Well, you aren't supposed to destroy the fabric of society! /s How do you think society would work if there was no restriction on the size of the group that is allowed to break the laws for their own benefit?! Imagine the horror if all plebs were allowed to do that! Could everyone live in Monaco or what?
Util(itsrianism) is truth(tilitarianism)
The categorical imperative deserves to stay in the dustbin of history.
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#313Laid off from Twitter three weeks ago, lots of interest and cool companies out there. I binged interviews and have three offers to consider. Senior eng with 20 years experience
Can you share which companies you got interviews with, and for what positions?
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#314I primarily write Elixir these days. At first I was worried that there wouldn't be a lot of Elixir jobs, but the ones I did apply to have mostly gotten back to me and I've been interviewing. I have 5 years of experience with the language, FWIW.
I'm compiling a list of companies confirmed to be using elixir (not just suggesting it as a language in the description), dm me if you'd care to share lists
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For that kind of seniority/experience, what fraction of companies asked LeetCodey stuff? Was it easy or medium/hard problems? How much time did you have to spend preparing/practicing?
Not the OP, but with similar experience levels and I’ve never done a LeetCode interview, and even regular interviews are pretty light. I mostly contract though, and they generally offer me full time after a little while if I want it.
Can you share which companies these are?
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#316Wasn't laid off (end of contract) but spent ~3 months looking and interviewing for jobs. Applied to about 30 positions, heard back from 3 and received 1 offer for Google. Didn't exactly give me confidence about the future when I may be looking for another job... YOE: 3
Dude. You got an offer from Google. How do you not have confidence for the future?! Google took you! Who cares what the places that didn’t take you think? *GOOGLE* thinks you’re good. That’s a hell of a statement. But getting a job at Google tells you that your overall skillset was not the problem. You just didn’t match the other positions as well as some others for some reason. FAANG level jobs are always hard to ge…
Googles prestige is on the decline.
Blind is filled with posts talking about Google culture turning toxic. Googles stock has performed quite badly with the downturn, and the heat is being turned up on the workers.
Compare it to place like Salesforce or Oracle or Intel or IBM. Salesforce and Oracle may actually beat the google offer too since Google is low balling a lot these days.
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Thanks for sharing. If I may ask, when was the last time you looked for a job? I'm saying this because maybe you're having trouble due to ageism that you didn't encounter before.
I think age-ism isn’t that relevant when you’re under 40. There will be limited positions for someone who wants staff+ compensation though.
what's staff+ comp nowadays?
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Here (Israel) it's illegal, you can reject a candidate for pretty much any (non discriminatory) reason but you have to tell them about it pretty promptly. It's weird there are US states where it's not a requirement.
One practical problem is that there are a fair amount of people who are simply unstable, and if told why they were rejected (in very neutral to positive framing) they will actively challenge it and even go pseudo-stalker mode over it. Dealing with just a handful of these guys is enough to do away with providing any sort of feedback. Like many things, a few bad apples ruin nice things for everybody.
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If anything, we'll need more engineers to help GPT-3.5/ChatGPT eat most receptionist, customer support, and similar customer-facing entry level jobs. That itself could become a very healthy and large industry.
This feels kind of arrogant? People working in many customer-facing entry level jobs do emotional labor within organisations that no AI-training has even taken aim at. If glorified chatbots could do their work receptionists would've disappeared a long time ago.
I just want to add, ordering through the McDonald's big touchscreen machine is much better than ordering through the human and that alone has elevated my affinity for McDonald's. Which other experiential leaps from replacing humans with machines remain unimplemented?
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think age-ism isn’t that relevant when you’re under 40. There will be limited positions for someone who wants staff+ compensation though.
what's staff+ comp nowadays?
Very wide range depending on the company. Startups and the like $200K/yr+ and equity. The equivalent at Google is $500K - ?.
As an aside, Staff Engineers have to ride this strange line of being tech leads, managers, architects, and ICs. In my experience, one part or all parts will suffer. Will Larson's book[1] dances well around the ambiguity, but basically when you take a Staff Engineer job, it'll be unclear what you're signing up for.