Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: So I'm being let go

news.ycombinator.com

81–83 of 83 posts

Re: Ask HN: So I'm being let go

#81
Start applying now, it's good to get in the habit and it's been 10 years since you've had to.

Take inventory of your accomplishments, make a massive resume even if you only ever share a portion of it.

It's very easy to let this all crush you like an avalanche, don't let it.

Re: Ask HN: So I'm being let go

#82
post #76
post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go on ...

I've had good luck with LinkedIn. You get a lot of volume, and the quality is not always great. However, it is easy to sort through it and find good stuff. It isn't a big deal to turn down unappealing offers, right?

Do you hit up recruiters or stakeholders at companies?

Re: Ask HN: So I'm being let go

#83

I was recently made redundant. I had a 3 month notice period. In that time, I learnt Python and Django and built https://parsemail.org using it. I also set up https://hireme.grepular.com with a list of my skills. The company who hired me were impressed at my skills list (after they'd questioned me on some of it to make sure I wasn't exagerating). They were also very happy to see a lot of very recent work on Github (p…

Impressive work - but just wanted to say that the FOUC (flash of unstyle content) on your site parsemail is really rough. Cool service though

That happens because I load CSS asynchronously. I'm happy with the trade off.
Post reply on HN