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Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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lovich wrote: post #27
71a54xd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks - I've had other friends who seem to have fared better and I'm basically terrified of having more than a few months of being unemployed on my resume.

I got laid off mid covid and didn’t have a job for 8 months. I took a decent(25%) pay cut but was able to get a rope again and my careers been stable since, including getting a job for more total comp than my pre covid role

Thanks for your positive encouragement - I'm hoping to land something in January this has just been a tough time for me mentally.

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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Post by gngoo »

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…

To paint an accurate picture, an hard pass on crypto would mean:

- wanted to bank the poor, with crypto.

- wanted freedom, with crypto.

- wanted self sovereign identity, with crypto.

- wanted border-less transfers for their family abroad, with crypto.

They could have chosen any of those areas without, but they chose to do it with crypto. There is a clear choice for them to do that, as well a very reasonable option for an employer to choose an employee "who wanted freedom, with XXX" over an employee who "wanted freedom, with ZZZ (crypto)". This does not equate to racism (neither is it unethical imo), regardless whether the employer chose to exclude based on perceived morality of their crypto choice.

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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Post by vunderba »

austin-cheney wrote: post #50

Absolutely anybody is employable in software. This deeply buried comment was still upvoted 20 times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37966978 All you have to do is pass an interview. Now by far the greatest challenge to attaining software employment is surviving resume death in order to make it to an interview. This has taught me a few things about hiring this year: * Get out of software. Ideally this means get…

Couple notes

1. I'm not convinced that 20 upvotes on a hacker news thread is indicative of trends in the industry at large

2. As an amateur pilot who just got their PPL, it's also a rather unsubstantiated take.

Most pilots do not understand how their planes work at a fundamental level (it's an entirely separate discipline known as aeronautics). They understand how to operate the plane, how to respond to real world situations, etc. but one could just as easily claim that's essentially analogous to a software engineer understanding how to perform basic debugging on frameworks such as React, Angular, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Am I unhireable?

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Post by kasdi »

user_named wrote: post #39
edbaskerville wrote: post #16

I'm 41, haven't had a normal full-time job in my adult life (unless you count 5 years of grad school), and I will go seriously looking for work in a couple months! I have no evidence for the following outlook, but I'm depending on it: if you're educated, if you're skilled, if you're a motivated learner, and if you have a good attitude, then you're not unhireable. Rather, you're in a rather enviable, privileged positi…

Well, you clearly don't know how hiring works. If your resume looks off you're not getting anywhere. No matter how motivated.

Isn't this a self-fulfilling prophecy? Giving up can't end in success.
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