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Re: Ask HN: How is your job search going?

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Post by meiraleal »

jason2323 wrote: post #43
geuis wrote: post #14

I've been looking for most of the past year. My back is against the wall. I've applied to more companies than I can keep track of. I've exhausted my savings. Friends and family have already helped as much as they can. I'm days away from having some life changing situational events happen. I've recently seen a small uptick in interviews, but over the last year almost nothing has moved past the initial call/zoom meetin…

Stories like yours absolutely kill me and I feel so much anger toward the management class that thought it would be a good idea to overhire to such an extent and cut us off like it doesn't matter. I know this is unpopular on HN, but I have never felt more cynical about founders than I have as of late. Almost every founder i've spoken too seems to be drinking from the same jar of koolaid and thinks of workers as dispe…

The solution from this imbalance is simple: laid off people should become founders. Then they can maximize the profits not hiring people or keep the previous arrangement of hiring as many as possible to grow

Re: Ask HN: How is your job search going?

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Post by codingdave »

ehto wrote: post #28

I'm in London. Today was a low point. I've been slowly expanding the aperture of what I would be open to doing, and haven't been going for volume applications because of my weird background. The last few rejections have really shaken me because I (to my detriment) get invested. As best I can tell I'm perfect, get a first round interview, excitement builds, then get rejected... For me a big learning is that your CV an…

> if I can't give them what they want

I don't know if it helps or not, but getting rejected does not always mean that you cannot give them what they want. It means that they found someone else who can and chose them. You never know if your rejection was a case of them not liking you at all vs. them being really crushed by having to choose between you and another person, both of whom they really liked.

Re: Ask HN: How is your job search going?

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Post by geuis »

altdataseller wrote: post #44
geuis wrote: post #14

I've been looking for most of the past year. My back is against the wall. I've applied to more companies than I can keep track of. I've exhausted my savings. Friends and family have already helped as much as they can. I'm days away from having some life changing situational events happen. I've recently seen a small uptick in interviews, but over the last year almost nothing has moved past the initial call/zoom meetin…

What city are you looking for roles in?

I'm in SF but have been looking at anything US based.

Re: Ask HN: How is your job search going?

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Post by borski »

jason2323 wrote: post #43
geuis wrote: post #14

I've been looking for most of the past year. My back is against the wall. I've applied to more companies than I can keep track of. I've exhausted my savings. Friends and family have already helped as much as they can. I'm days away from having some life changing situational events happen. I've recently seen a small uptick in interviews, but over the last year almost nothing has moved past the initial call/zoom meetin…

Stories like yours absolutely kill me and I feel so much anger toward the management class that thought it would be a good idea to overhire to such an extent and cut us off like it doesn't matter. I know this is unpopular on HN, but I have never felt more cynical about founders than I have as of late. Almost every founder i've spoken too seems to be drinking from the same jar of koolaid and thinks of workers as dispe…

For what it’s worth, the vast majority of founders, at least in the valley, are not like this.

Elsewhere, I cannot speak. In the valley they exist, but aren’t a majority.

Most founders value their people extremely well, because they want to retain them.

Overhiring during the pandemic was obviously a mistake, but once someone did the options quickly became “die” or “cut,” so they cut.

I didn’t have to lay anyone off, but the company that acquired us had plenty of layoffs. Founders aren’t actually as much the issue as huge companies.

Re: Ask HN: How is your job search going?

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Post by Irongirl1 »

Irongirl1 wrote: post #49
geuis wrote: post #14

I've been looking for most of the past year. My back is against the wall. I've applied to more companies than I can keep track of. I've exhausted my savings. Friends and family have already helped as much as they can. I'm days away from having some life changing situational events happen. I've recently seen a small uptick in interviews, but over the last year almost nothing has moved past the initial call/zoom meetin…

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