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Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by lukasm »

dang wrote: post #391

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.

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

There is an issue in my repo with a really good spreadsheet contaning a lot of companies. I was planning to import that but havent got time and now im stuck in Japan with just my phone.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by jeremyjh »

WFHRenaissance wrote: post #357
Miktor wrote: post #349

This is probably a long shot - and I'm sure you'll see quite a few posts like this over the coming weeks - but I'm going to swallow my pride and ask nonetheless. I've been a data entry clerk for the past twenty years, working for a major bookmaker in Northern Ireland. With the coronavirus pandemic hitting recently, many businesses have decided to lay off large numbers of staff. I've just become one of the unfortunate…

Apply for jobs at defense contractors, they're always looking for people that know C++. It will not be glamorous work, but I think it might be a good bet for you. Raytheon Missile Systems is hiring in Tuscon Arizona, inquire about remote work. Also, I recommend you learn SQL (just learn SQL Server or Postgres).

I've never seen a job listing for C++ development that doesn't require professional experience in that language.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by bashwizard »

jeremyjh wrote: post #502
WFHRenaissance wrote: post #357

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apply for jobs at defense contractors, they're always looking for people that know C++. It will not be glamorous work, but I think it might be a good bet for you. Raytheon Missile Systems is hiring in Tuscon Arizona, inquire about remote work. Also, I recommend you learn SQL (just learn SQL Server or Postgres).

I've never seen a job listing for C++ development that doesn't require professional experience in that language.

I've never bothered with the requirement of professional experience when applying. Still got interviews and offers.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by lwb »

karlkatzke wrote: post #279

Yes, I was part of the massive Expedia Group lay-off last month. I’m finding out that a lot of the managers I reported to are becoming individual contributors again as they wind up the department. I’m a DevOps/Linux Systems Engineer/SRE with 20 years in industry, about 5 as a developer and the rest as operations. Looking for anything remote, or possibly in Austin, TX. I have worked remote before. Besides AWS and Linu…

Did you work at Homeaway?

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by bokelley1 »

I founded my last company, AppNexus, in 2007, and we were out trying to raise our series A round in 2008 just as the world was falling apart. I pitched 40+ VCs, got nowhere, and was about to sell the company when we finally got a term sheet from Venrock and were able to keep going. By having the funding to survive the crisis, we built the company over a 10-year bull market, and ended up selling to AT&T for $1.6 billion in 2018.

Last year, I decided to start a new company, CMDTY, and raised $10MM from Venrock and Rucker Park with the intention of having plenty of money in case the world fell apart again (not really thinking it would, to be clear). I think we are going to be impacted by the global recession like everyone else, and at the same time, I think our product - a platform for supply chain management - is going to be extremely valuable as things pick back up again.

While we are going to be cautious given the uncertainty we face, we plan to hire 3-5 people over the next few months, and we're open to remote work (that feels funny writing, given that nobody is in the office!). https://cmdtymkt.com/careers

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by otobrglez »

I’ve found out last Friday that I have to fire 2/3 of our engineering team. I work for a R&D “lab” inside a corporation, inside market research industry. Reason that I’ve got is that company hasn’t reached its expected growth and there is no budget to continue development in such size. I had to let my friends go... It’s gonna be really really though to stay.

So, if you need remote Senior Ruby, Senior Scala, Senior OPS, Senior Front-End (Angular), Senior iOS/Swift, or certified product managers, ping me.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by ivanche »

eropple wrote: post #486
smnrchrds wrote: post #423

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By and large, both the general public and organizations were caught by surprise. If most people knew, the stocks would have tanked in January, not these past few days. Which brings an interesting question: how many of all the people you know who knew, yourself included, put their skin in the game and are now rich from the options they bought in January? If it is not many, I would argue it is better to say people susp…

It's a real big stretch from "certain enough to take personal precautions" to "is a stock head and wants to throw down puts". You get that normal people don't really give a damn about the stock market, yeah? Put a gun to my head and I can't tell you how a put works and I don't really care--I'm too busy buying a house. I did, however, rebalance almost entirely out of stocks three weeks ago and while I am not "now rich…

Out of curiosity, do you have any plan when and why to go back in stocks? I'm currently 20% stocks (ETFs really), 5% bonds, 75% cash. I only plan to continue buying stocks and bonds every month, as usual (so, DCA).

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by souprock »

dangoor wrote: post #36

Khan Academy is still hiring, though our focus is backend and full-stack engineers right now[1]. I hope you're able to find new work soon! This is an odd time for us. We're an online education non-profit. With all of the school closings[2], we're seeing a huge spike in traffic. Fortunately, our infrastructure can handle it, but we are still spending some effort staying on top of the rapidly changing traffic patterns.…

Say, maybe you could pass this along to the design team:

My kids all reject the current interface. They loved the interface it had a few years back. In case you need more info to identify what I refer to, I'll describe it.

I'm pretty sure there was nothing but math. Each topic was represented by a circle, and each circle was connected to prerequisites. Kids would earn points in a simple way. Kids would also earn various astronomy-related badges.

The new system simply doesn't motivate any of my kids. It isn't a change in my kids; I have enough kids (twelve) to average that out. Kids who liked Khan Academy before now don't, complaining about the interface. Younger siblings, now the age at which the older siblings liked Khan Academy, also don't like it.

Also, a completely different matter: Last time I checked, which was some time ago, the video required YouTube. If I need to block YouTube, the video can't play. Hopefully you found a solution for that long ago.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by DeathArrow »

SeanAppleby wrote: post #422
jee1shi wrote: post #373

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What's the difference between a software engineer and "just" a programmer?

IMO engineer implies the same direction of thing it implies anywhere else: a deep understanding of the fundamentals of what you're building, an ability to rigorously model and optimize for the key aspects of your problem space and turn them into a solid design that meets them (whether that's performance, scaleability, reliability, latency, throughput, memory use, etc) Programmer moreso implies just making things work…

At university I've studied Computer Science, that's what is written on my diploma and I consider myself a computer scientist even if I do lots of engineering and programming.

And it's not because of the diploma but because I am highly interested in the fundamentals of computer science, formal languages, automas, formal semantics, algebra, algorithms, data structures, coding theory, game theory, symbolic computation, graph theory.

But that doesn't make me an efficient coder since all that is required is to know a particular framework and programming language well and have lots of experience with it.

So, while I can understand the theory better, there will be many people coding faster and better than me.

I do however have the advantage of being able to pick up and learn stuff fast. Since I like to learn about new thinks I've also fiddled with lots of tech stacks and while I didn't mastered them, I've picked up enough to know what might be the best tool for a particular job.

So, beside stuff I use currently and which I am at a decent level, I am more of a jack of all trades. I don't know if anyone ever needs a jack of all trades at a company since everybody seems to be hiring highly specialized staff.

But I think my skill set might be of value when I'll be starting my own business.

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