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Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by luke5441 »

noprocrasted wrote: post #70
luke5441 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's idk 10% for B2B in Poland and more than 50% in western Europe. Of course if you pay someone 135k vs 70k real income the first person will put in more effort. In western Europe you'd just have to specify the availability requirements and they'd do it there as well. You'd just have to pay for it. Edit: If you pay someone 150k€ in Germany what they see after-tax is just not that much. They are going to compare this…

> Why not just admit that you don't want to pay equivalent wages for accessing the western european market? Is it his responsibility? If some countries have a better tax policy, why should he not take advantage of it, and ultimately end up in a situation that benefits both the employee and his company?

Well, if he says that a solution for me would be to move to a country with better tax policy. If he says that it is some issue with western European work mentality, that won't help because my CV would show that I am western European.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by mamcx »

There is a lot of "spam" jobs.

You see the same offer by the same company for months! with the same generic reject (seriously I think no even check the resume or whatever!).

Then, a lot of fake I-am-a-AI "companies and middleman and such things.

Ironically, I have been contacted more by somebody looking here in hn than in all the job boards!

Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by troupo »

Melatonic wrote: post #48
troupo wrote: post #26

I'm kinda looking at jobs available (Europe): - AI (as in: stupid AI wrappers "disrupting" shit) - FinTech - Gambling - AI in FinTech That's about 99% of jobs advertised. No idea how hard it's to get hired, but even jobs on offer are shitty.

Is this specifically for software development ? Are you just looking at large companies or also medium sized stuff that may hire in house but not be super well known ?

Software development. Looking just at a filtered search for "backend/fullstack"

Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by FabCH »

addedGone wrote: post #5
idontwantthis wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I took a not ideal job while I continue interviewing for better ones.

[flagged]

Judging by the OPs comments, the employer could easily retain them if they offered them remote and a bit more comp.

It’s on the employer to retain talent.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by queenkjuul »

Recruiters are ghosting me if i won't reply to their LinkedIn messages same day. I've applied to 65 jobs in the last month and landed three phone screenings and zero interviews.

I have 5 years experience including two at an F500 and two as a tech lead on my current team.

In 2022, with less than 2 years experience, i had competing offers all over 100k within a month of starting to apply places.

I've been applying off-and-on for a full year, consistently for a month.

Sure seems pretty bleak to me

Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by queenkjuul »

addedGone wrote: post #5
idontwantthis wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I took a not ideal job while I continue interviewing for better ones.

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Fuck My employer, and yours, and theirs

They certainly think the same about you. We could all be gone with no severance by tonight if they felt like it. We owe them nothing.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by ieieje »

dgellow wrote: post #25
alephnerd wrote: post #7

It isn't. As someone who has made hiring and firing decisions at the Board level, the people who are the most severely affected were either (in no order): 1. Working remotely in North America but demanding Bay Area salaries without the chops to justify it. 2. Working in Western Europe (they complain more about stuff irrelevant to the business but shy away from business critical decision making when offered the opport…

I feel so much disdain for workers coming from your words. I hope to never work for someone like you

He’s a bozo who said he would delete his account.

And yet he’s still among us. Pathetic lmao.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

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Post by subhobroto »

DrJokepu wrote: post #64
subhobroto wrote: post #13

There's no monolithic "Job Market", so specific details matter. I have not been tracking details too closely but here are two things I am tracking: - CRUD generation by running through JIRA tickets and clearing backlogs seem to be replaced by agentic workflows. So if you were an extremely productive dev who would machete your way through CRUD and API integrations, agentic workflows do it better, faster and for cheape…

But how do they scale the reviewing of the agentic output? Or they just blindly trust it and worst case scenario they get to write a sob story on HN about how Claude has deleted the production db?

> But how do they scale the reviewing of the agentic output? Or they just blindly trust it and worst case scenario they get to write a sob story on HN about how Claude has deleted the production db?

Thats a fantastic question. Here's my take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917314 - would love your thoughts on it.

In short, I think you're asking a billion dollar question - how do we solve the verification, validation, and QA bottleneck?

The way I handle it for my personal projects is I invest tremendous time and effort into writing thorough test and validation suites.

I bet the next billion dollar companies will be those addressing this verification, validation, and QA bottleneck.

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