Ask HN: Have you been laid off? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by samsonradu » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:01 PM UTC

misja111 wrote: post #514

okareaman wrote: post #387

Not to scare anyone, but myself and many of my highly capable friends were laid off after the dotcom bubble burst in the early 2000's. It took many of us 1, 2 sometimes 3 years to get back to the same level of job we had before. Prepare for a long haul. Get over your ego immediately and take whatever job you can get now, while you continue to look for work in the software industry. I drove a city bus (surprisingly to…

Still, in 2000 the situation was quite different. IT companies had been hiring like crazy based on the assumption that infinite Internet growth would require infinite resources. And then, it turned out it was all a bubble and most of the IT workforce was not needed. Right now there is not much fundamentally wrong with the economy, there is just a temporary setback because of the Corona lockdown. Things will go back t…

> Right now there is not much fundamentally wrong with the economy, there is just a temporary setback because of the Corona lockdown.

A very bold claim there. There are a lot of things 'wrong' with the economy, starting with negative-yielding sovereign debt, corporate debt, repo markets, politics interfering with Central bank decisions, PE levels and ending with 30% stock market gains in 2019.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by Chipped » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:08 PM UTC

flibble wrote: post #226

Flipdish (food-tech / online ordering for restaurants) is hiring remote developers (.NET) https://www.flipdish.com/careers/ Mention HN in the application and I’ll make sure it’s prioritised. I’m totally biased, but I think we’ve a great culture and lovely and friendly tech team who love solving problems together and getting stuff shipped.

Seconding this :)

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by pjutard81 » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:22 PM UTC

Come join us! mural.co/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by fludlight » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:26 PM UTC

madeofpalk wrote: post #285

dathinab wrote: post #192

My predictions: DISCLAIMER: I'm not a expert wrt. any of this. Don't listen to me ;=). It's all just speculation. Companies which plan to downsize since a will will do it now, using COVID19 as a excuse. Companies who have shifted some "bad consequences" into the future might now book them using COVID19 as a excuse for why they exist. Companies who are already on the last straw will end now, (Such which without COVID1…

There’s also the situations where the pandemic makes already mad situations even worse. My parents run a cafe/restaurant in rural Australia that was already not doing too great, and they were looking to sell. Now, they’re truly fucked.

I'm sure Australia will be locked down soon. Maybe they can switch to a take-out model. Rural areas also need more grocery stores. Maybe sell bulk dry/canned goods since they already stock that.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by solanagaspari » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

Tray is a visual programming platform. It’s a low-code user experience that allows anyone to build business logic that precisely defines how data flows through their organisation.

We’re a well-funded startup with a team in San Francisco and 100+ in our London Engineering HQ. We have secured a huge Series C in November last year, at over 8.5x the valuation of our Series A in March 2018; we’ve worked hard on creating a fantastic support layer for our technical teams and now we’re expanding. We’re small (approaching medium sized) and dynamic, very open to new ideas and the work you do now will have a big impact on shaping how we grow our team and our product.

We aim to pick the right tool for the job, and currently use: Typescript, React, Redux, GraphQL, and our toolchain includes Webpack and PostCSS. On the backend, our APIs are built in Scala, with Go and Java powering some of our custom services.

We are excited by people who want to constantly innovate; borrow from other industries, experiment with new tools and pool their knowledge with other solution seekers; people who have shipped entire projects with ownership and autonomy; people who take pride in what gets built, all the whilst balancing day-to-day pragmatism with building for the future.

Current open roles:

- Backend Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4586921002

- Systems Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

- Security Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4629664002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Performance) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4363932002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Design system) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4655086002

-Site Reliability Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

-Technical Support Administrator https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4675597002

Tech stack: Scala, Go, GraphQL, ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, Docker, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS & Linux.

Apply: https://tray.io/jobs or get in touch with london-talent@tray.io

The interview process happens completely remotely, and you will stay remote until the outbreak ends

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by solanagaspari » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

Tray is a visual programming platform. It’s a low-code user experience that allows anyone to build business logic that precisely defines how data flows through their organisation.

We’re a well-funded startup with a team in San Francisco and 100+ in our London Engineering HQ. We have secured a huge Series C in November this year, at over 8.5x the valuation of our Series A in March 2018; we’ve worked hard on creating a fantastic support layer for our technical teams and now we’re expanding. We’re small (approaching medium sized) and dynamic, very open to new ideas and the work you do now will have a big impact on shaping how we grow our team and our product.

We aim to pick the right tool for the job, and currently use: Typescript, React, Redux, GraphQL, and our toolchain includes Webpack and PostCSS. On the backend, our APIs are built in Scala, with Go and Java powering some of our custom services.

We are excited by people who want to constantly innovate; borrow from other industries, experiment with new tools and pool their knowledge with other solution seekers; people who have shipped entire projects with ownership and autonomy; people who take pride in what gets built, all the whilst balancing day-to-day pragmatism with building for the future.

Current open roles:

- Backend Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4586921002

- Systems Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

- Security Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4629664002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Performance) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4363932002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Design system) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4655086002 -Site Reliability Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

-Technical Support Administrator https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4675597002

Tech stack: Scala, Go, GraphQL, ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, Docker, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS & Linux.

Apply: https://tray.io/jobs or get in touch with london-talent@tray.io

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by purple-again » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:40 PM UTC

dx034 wrote: post #495

mehrdadn wrote: post #402

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Small companies with less than 50 employees are exempt because most of them cannot afford to pay employees for two weeks without receiving any labor and continue as a going concern. This is the same reason why most regulations exempt small businesses, because without it the only companies that could last would be mega corporations.

On to companies with more than 500 employees. They are being exempt because they are large enough to afford paying for their own employees to go on sick leave with it only affecting the profit for the year rather than sinking the company.

Now personally I think that 500 number should be 5,000 instead but at the end of the day any line you draw is arbitrarily arrived at (think some countries banning gatherings larger than 10, while others picked larger than 100).

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by tcgv » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:55 PM UTC

ivanche wrote: post #507

eropple wrote: post #486

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

https://www.capitalgroup.com/individual/planning/investing-f...

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by miloszkowal » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 12:56 PM UTC

Cyberdog wrote: post #180

pletsch wrote: post #83

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Are all your clients technical? If not, might want to consider a revamp of your site, make it more what your work will do for them (online presence) than your specific skill set (PHP, Drupal).

With all the time I have now, I'm certainly planning on sprucing up the site (which is currently just a flat HTML file) in the near future. When I had client work, it was sort of a "the cobbler's children have no shoes" sort of thing - I couldn't justify spending much free time on it. Perhaps that was faulty reasoning in hindsight.

If you're looking for something easy, I recommend the Hugo + GitHub + Netlify stack. That's how I'm currently migrating my squarespace website. It's still static HTML for the most part, and loads quickly.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by kls » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

smnrchrds wrote: post #423

eropple wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you I am not talking about the aggressive curve-fitting community. Just...normal people. Nobody famous, not even any Chinese nationals. Just...fairly normal, if tech-worker-y, Americans and Europeans.

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…

I pretty much agree with you on this, my wife is a Doctor so I got to overhear a lot of calls where the CDC and the local Doctors/Hospitals and none of them saw this as obviously exploding into a pandemic. Rather they made decisions as it progressed.

That being said, I did take what I felt was a risk at the time and shorted Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise lines which payed off, but I was not certain that at the time it would (if I was I would have risked a whole lot more), I went off a hunch once I started seeing them close the ports to cruise ships. I am now buying those stocks because I think their hit from CORVID-19 is priced in, but we will see. It's all a guessing game on good hunches. Hardly anybody saw it exploding (short of the doctors on the ground in Wuhan) and everyone was hoping that it was going to be contained in China just like SARS was.

The reality is, Doctors and the CDC do not make decisions on news reports they make them on papers and data from people on the ground. That data was actively being suppressed to some extent by China until it was too late. Sure there where rouge Chinese doctors in the media warning us (and they where right), but that is a thin straw to base policy on. Once the true data was out and the CDC could base guideline on it, it was already too late.

Also to note I am sorry and pray for those of you that are affected by this.