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We've made our resume software totally free for anyone that is affected by the virus.
We are headquartered in Seoul and as a result, my first-hand experience with the virus comes from a place of less concern than most North Americans and Europeans.
This is the one way I feel like we can help out
At 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…
> But in February, there wasn't any sign of an economic downturn. Everyone was enjoying the bull market. First: I’m super sorry about what you’re going through and I hope things work out with your new employer. Second: I worry that “nobody could have known” will be the narrative. A very large portion of my circles was aware that COVID was about to explode and that the prevention measures would either drastically slow…
I don't think we should excuse the many failures of our leaders, but I also don't think the now-obvious economic impact of this crisis was that clearcut even a month ago.
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I think it was other news organizations than the ones you listed that were the primary culprits in screaming "it's just the flu"
Read https://twitter.com/balajis starting early February and documented many of the posts. He was one of the earliest to call out their BS and anti-scientific agenda. And then the House tried to remove Trump's travel ban: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/12/house-committee-vot... You can play politics or you can look at reality.
All: a user emailed with the brilliant suggestion that HN do a "Who Is Hiring Right Now?" thread. We'll do that soon; maybe tomorrow. This will specifically be for jobs that are ready to hire, and able to onboard, quickly. If any of you have suggestions for how to make this most helpful under current conditions, please share them. I'll check this thread later tonight.
It might be helpful to highlight whichever of the following are feasible: - Remote work (even across the country, with no expectation of travel) - Short-term work (like a few months, no expectation of staying for > 1 year) - How long the employer roughly expects to be able to provide the job in their projection of the current economic conditions - Rough company size, given the US Congress just passed a bill concernin…
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It might be helpful to highlight whichever of the following are feasible: - Remote work (even across the country, with no expectation of travel) - Short-term work (like a few months, no expectation of staying for > 1 year) - How long the employer roughly expects to be able to provide the job in their projection of the current economic conditions - Rough company size, given the US Congress just passed a bill concernin…
As a non American, may I ask why the sick leave policy only applies to companies with 50-500 employees? I couldn't find explanations there. Exempting small companies is often done as they likely cannot pay for this measure, but why exempt large companies too?
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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…
Sell some stock and come out stronger than competitors. Lobotomizing hurts more if you're good. If you can't, well, that says a lot about the owners and company when push comes to shove. Not the narrative, but fundamentals. Of course, if $300M is VC ponzi valuation money, this was 80% fake anyways, and dependent on funny math continuing until the company caught up to the hype or exited to Someone Else's Problem, but…
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Read https://twitter.com/balajis starting early February and documented many of the posts. He was one of the earliest to call out their BS and anti-scientific agenda. And then the House tried to remove Trump's travel ban: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/12/house-committee-vot... You can play politics or you can look at reality.
That Politico article is about the travel ban involving Muslim countries, not China or any Asian country. Do you read your own sources?
"The legislation would void all of Trump's executive actions establishing travel restrictions."
At 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 have been laid off just before 2015 and I haven't found any stable work since then. I have been under-employed for a long while before the outbreak, and I don't even know what new change-ups in job hunting I should be doing now. For a long time, many people have said that my years of experience make me valuable so that I should have gotten offers very quickly, but the reality hasn't shown that. Heck, even the found…