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Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by johnmarcus »

geggam wrote: post #328
johnmarcus wrote: post #320

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Another reason is 'experienced' developers can sometimes be difficult to work with. They can be arrogant and bull headed, 'my way or the highway' sorta attitudes. Negative to others with new ideas, etc. Teams that already have some vets on them like working with Jr folks precisely because they are moldable.

Good read for you http://boringtechnology.club/ I'll leave this one alone as opinionated experienced guys get like that for a reason

I've seen that before, it has some good points. I don't think an experienced person has to - or always does - get like I described. But it does happen.

The question was "why higher less senior people?" My answer, and perhaps I wasn't clear, was that for your first 1-5 devs, you should definitely higher senior...but once you break past that then your senior devs - you know the ones who launched all that boring technology - then want Jr devs to mold into doing things the right way from the start.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by avan »

ccajas wrote: post #353
Rebles wrote: post #44

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…

This is immensely forward but if you would like any help with your resume or interviewing I would be more than happy to help. I am no recruiting expert I believe I have some skill that may be useful. I've changed jobs every 18 months (by choice) for the past 6-7 years or so and I've interviewed with about 10x that many companies. No pressure, just wanting to help out.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by exikyut »

prh8 wrote: post #434
_bohm wrote: post #367

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OP specified they live in Northern Ireland so it is unlikely they will be able to get a job with an American defense contractor as a non-citizen who can't obtain a security clearance.

This is correct. I live in Tucson and am quite familiar with Raytheon (having been recruited and know numerous employees as they are the biggest employer here). They are not going to be hiring remote developers from Ireland. In all likelihood, they will not be hiring any remote developers anywhere, unless those people will be relocating to Tucson and being on premise once this calms down.

Hmm. How are environments like this handling the WFH status quo?

My completely naive/distant presumption of sites like these is that they are fundamentally incompatible with the security concessions inherent to remote work.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by sumitjami »

sqs wrote: post #200

Sourcegraph CEO here. We build universal code search for developers. Our team is all-remote (all countries and timezones OK). We're hiring for engineering, design, and product roles (+ others): https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr... https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr... and https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers#readme for a full list of roles. We are growing quickly…

I am still learning go (by myself). However have professional experience of >5 years. Would you recommend me going through the application and interview process. (I am happy to do it anyways :-) )

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by meheleventyone »

AchieveLife wrote: post #619
aguyfromnb wrote: post #606

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> How is the post an attack? Perhaps by asserting the OP is trying to "exploit" the situation by not wanting to pay Google wage rates at their small business? I'm not sure I understand why the business owner "deserves" to take the financial hit for the sake of a new employee. The market will sort it out.

He doesn't have to pay Google wage rates. He also doesn't have to wait it out for a bigger candidate pool so he can 'negotiate' lower baselines. Business owner is using a turtle strategy. Opportunistic yes but also seeing people as numbers on a spreadsheet. OP stated that he feels fear. Fear is a reasonable reaction when a Business Owner closes doors for conversation to wait out catching google 'talent' at a bargain.…

Thank you.

I think the general issue with my post is that the moderators want this to be a "place of ideas". So that tends towards the appearance of decorum being more important here than actually treating people better in the current crisis.

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Post by poooogles »

robinduckett wrote: post #248
poooogles wrote: post #222

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Depending upon what you're looking for we might be able to help. ML company in London that's open to fully remote people. (email in profile)

It doesn't seem to be (or did you have to take it out because you were inundated? :p)

Second times the charm. It's there now.

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Post by idoby »

ccajas wrote: post #609
idoby wrote: post #549

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Don't take this the wrong way (I'm trying to help, might fail but intentions are good) but it seems to me that the real reason you are having a hard time finding a "job" is because you have a history of leaving jobs after a short tenure. I wrote "job" because working as a salaried employee is not the only way to make a living, or have a successful career. Consider that the freelance/contractor career you're currently…

> it seems to me that the real reason you are having a hard time finding a "job" is because you have a history of leaving jobs after a short tenure. Brevity is to be expected in contract jobs. But I don't know if you are purposely trying to discourage me from finding salaried work which is my main goal. I actually don't like freelancing at all, I prefer lower risk than freelance, and it is not paying me well anyways.…

You seem to have skipped the first part where I said I was just trying to help.

I wish you all the best in finding work as quickly as possible, sir.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by Jonathanyeap »

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.

For those in Singapore? http://bit.ly/2WkQj45

- just a simple google form and spreadsheet?

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by mcv »

I'm not being laid off. Well, I will be in a few months, but also the opposite; I'm a freelancer currently working for a major bank, and they will soon run into the limit of how long they're allowed to hire me according to their rules, so they announced my contract will end in the summer. But if I'm open to it, I could get a permanent position there. It's unrelated to the pandemic, though.

I need to consider whether to take them up on that. I like the freedom of freelancing, and it will undoubtedly be an effective pay cut, but I do really enjoy the project I'm working on, and other teams within the same department are also working on interesting things I'd like to get into, like Machine Learning. And some job security might be nice if the pandemic hurts the job market. So in a way the pandemic may force me out of my current freelancing business. I'm totally aware I'm in a very comfortable position compared to many others, though.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by namc »

CaveTech wrote: post #345
namc wrote: post #105

My entire department got laid off. While some people are local, I was here on the work visa, and I was six months away from getting PR allowing free market access. Now No one is hiring, people are retracting job offers and cancelling interviews at the last minute with no definite timeline. Interviewing for bigN takes a lot of prep, and there is really no time, midst whatever little interviews I have lined up. This is…

I might have an opening for you, can you email me?

Hi. Looked at your profile couldn’t find the email. Pls let me know where to send it.
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