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Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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972811 wrote: post #29
PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Hiring has slowed down. Quite a few people are reporting job hunts with statistics similar to yours who don’t have a particular reasons to think they blew up their career.

yeah. the SWE stats sound pretty normal for now. I have heard from friends that product is even worse. I do wonder a bit whether OP is a little too wishy washy around position in interviews (e.g. coming off as not being sure whether he/she wants to be an engineer vs. product manager). the post even comes off that way a little

This is something I've worried about - when I apply to eng jobs I change my TPM role (which still had me coding quite a bit) to "product engineer". Which is accurate and my prev boss would back this.

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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xyzelement wrote: post #41

Thanks for asking the question. A few thoughts: 1. The fact that you made it in-house and to final rounds means your resume was "fine" for those roles. The resume is what gets you the first phone screen, from then on they are interested enough. 2. Interviewing is a numbers game and the market is harder right now. There are likely a ton of people applying to the same roles so even an "average" candidate is going to ge…

I'm mostly confused because I made it to a final round for technical product roles at DeepGram and Bilt but I seem to get passed over for almost any other "entry" product or software eng roles.

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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weddpros wrote: post #51
gumby wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? You can't choose how you will be identified by people as being of some race. While you can make choices about what kind of work you think is ethical or worthwhile. It is immoral to judge a candidate by the first but not immoral to judge by the latter.

You can't choose how you will be identified by people as being of some race, gender, religion, political beliefs... which all constitute illegal discrimination for employment in some countries (France is an example where it's illegal to discriminate on political opinion, or in our case, supposed opinion I shall say). A hard pass on crypto means passing on people who - wanted to bank the poor - wanted freedom - wanted…

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Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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saluki wrote: post #17

Sounds like you're having a typical experience in the current market. I just went through this being an early employee at a startup for the past three years and us suddenly meeting the end of our runway. It took a few months to land a new SWE role. Keep up the hunt. I would stay involved with your startup as long as possible if you're worried about a gap on your resume.

Thanks, obviously things have slowed down now because it's just Nov / Dec which is historically always a slow time of year for hiring. I'm just starting to lose hope because I started fielding my resume about four months ago - only a few bites so far and my emergency funds are running low. Feels shameful to have to dip into my savings.

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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therealdock wrote: post #9

Hey! I'm in the same boat. I was linked to this post because I just posted something similar ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38168753 ). If you end up having to scrap the other startup, want to help me solve this crisis? I know I'm not alone here. I've heard it from others. To be frank, these new startups claiming to be solving the engineer hiring problem and all these recruitment agencies aren't designed to s…

Sure thing, do you have an email in your prof here on HN?

I basically trust recruiters less than realtors at this point...

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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giraffe_lady wrote: post #8

Joining the chorus of "it's just like that now." Unhireable is literally not getting any interviews. I have a friend with no degree, self taught and changed jobs four times in five years. Got laid off in march and hasn't had a single interview since then. That's what that looks like.

Granted, I've applied a few hundred places and only got maybe 6 interviews.

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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Clubber wrote: post #23

>I've managed all of four interviews that have gone all the way to the final round I stay away from companies that have super complex hiring practices. It's like they want someone, but they have to be perfect (whatever that happens to mean at the time). In the dating world, most of those people end up single. We do a 30 minute initial screen call with one of our guys, then a team call for about an hour if it's going…

I have to say - my most bizarre interview experience was a round 2 "culture fit" interview at Coreweave.

The guy interviewing was way too nice to the point it was weird and the whole interview was him asking about my "best traits" and breaking them down to "get to know me".

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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Post by coolThingsFirst »

devwastaken wrote: post #24

If you are U.S. based, yes. The long term consequences of not regulating tech are now resulting in the workers thrown to the side as the investors become richer. Move to the EU if you want a job.

If you think US is tanking wait until you see how much worse off the EU is

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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Post by ponector »

jstarfish wrote: post #42
starttoaster wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nothing about you really stands out as problematic, but in my own opinion your heavy startup/crypto background makes you seem like someone only interested in money/getting rich quickly. > You might be a great candidate, but I'd fully expect you to check out if a better offer even looked in your direction. Given a choice between you and a more-conservative candidate, I'd pick them. Something about this seems... off…

> Yes, many of us are in tech because it's our passion. But I can almost guarantee that at least most of us work for companies _for money_, because _we need money_. And when people talk about money, in general, they're wanting _more of it._ I don't disagree, but I'm just being practical. The hiring process sucks. I appreciate not being made to do it more often than necessary. Further, reqs are not guaranteed. Suppose…

Suppose you hired him. Three month later your CEO decided to please shareholders and announce lay offs. But laid off people were loyal. Is their loyalty for sale? Worth nothing?

Is loyalty actually a tale to tell to your employee to keep them in while suppressing pay rise?

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