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Thanks! Are those IC or project/team lead positions?
Team Lead!
Do they make difference between "tech lead" and "team lead"? Asking for a friend :)
Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
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#342I work at a company that did layoffs. I wasn't affected, but I happened to be looking for a new role anyways. I've had two positions get to the offer stage so far, fully remote. For mid-career devs there doesn't seem to be any shortage of work.
In which country?
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#343Related question, how's the SW contracting market right now? Been thinking about quitting my full time and picking up jobs here and there as my expenses are very low.
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#344It’s interesting to hear about the 100 job applications needed to land a spot, is hired.com or some other site like that worthwhile? Seems like there’s a huge duplication of effort. I’m more specialized and doubt I would even find 100 job openings to apply to!
I've had exactly one hit on hired.com in ~3 weeks. Much better success with LinkedIn.
That being said, I've just redesigned my hired.com profile, we'll see if that helps.
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#345Laid off in Jan 3rd. Still doing interviews. Anyone else thinking that hiring has become more strict and companies with open roles are more "cautious"?
I share this feeling. Two years ago, when I switched job, I got 3 offers after only 1-2 interviews in each of the companies (there were several "no"s, of course).
This year, I have 4 promising leads, each of them having at least 4 interviews.
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I don't know. It's a big and somewhat irreversible decision from a pay and career perspective. I can certainly see people hesitate to make the plunge and maybe stretch things out a bit further even though they're pretty sure they're fine finacially.
Irreversible? If Tom Brady can come out retirement your typical tech worker will surely find it possible.
I think it sort of is unless someone is a real name that lots of companies would fall over themselves to hire. For most tech workers--not limited to developers--if you decide to hang up your cleats in your late 50s or 60s, it's probably going to be difficult to change your mind a couple of years later. Part-time consulting is probably easier though. (Probably less so at the moment.)
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#347I 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.
Every programmer eventually becomes a woodworker, whether they like it or not.
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Team Lead!
Do they make difference between "tech lead" and "team lead"? Asking for a friend :)
Yes! Team Lead has a management component to it. You often handle 1-on-1s, promotions, conflicts resolution, lead hiring processes, act a middleman to other parts of the company, but you still code (unlike a "pure" manager). Tech lead is more of a tech-only role, and there's often a non-coding manager present as well. All IME of course.
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Given that the average mid level developer makes a salary and stock grant putting them well into the 1% (in USA) I find it questionable that the majority of people are "just" trying to keep a roof over their heads.
Looked to me like the OP was talking more generally, about all people. And back to developers (I am one, but not living in the US), I don't think most of them own their place of living. I know I don't, so, yes, I have to work in order to have a roof over my head.
Well, there are property taxes, insurance, maintenance, and other things that can add up even if you have a paid-off mortgage on a house.
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#350Yeah, i just signed a contract for a senior engineering role, starting at the end of the month. It wasn't hard for me to find, either. Competitive pay and benefits.
Out of curiosity, how did you get there? Personal network? Headhunter? etc.