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Re: Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

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Post by bruncun »

aphextron wrote: post #78
paxy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't felt this at all. What companies are you applying to? How much experience do you have?

>I haven't felt this at all. What companies are you applying to? How much experience do you have? Mostly mid-size startups. I have 5 years experience as a front end dev, but being self taught with no degree I look pretty bad on paper. It's never been a problem for me in the past, but it seems like the market for mid-level self taught developers is drying up.

From Miami, but in the exact same boat. 4 yrs xp, FE, self-taught, having trouble for the first time finding a startup gig.

Re: Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

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Post by necubi »

aphextron wrote: post #39

Has anyone else had a hell of a time finding a job in SF lately? It seems like there is so much competition now I literally can't even get an in-person interview. It's a total shift from 5 years ago when people were begging you to come in after a quick phone screen. Now it's nothing but automated responses with Triplebyte quizzes and getting ghosted.

I don't know what level you're at, but my experience (from both sides of the hiring process) is that the market is completely saturated for junior engineers. Many companies are primarily/exclusively hiring seniors, and the market there is still _very_ demand-heavy.

Beyond that, the usual stuff applies: you'll have an easier time if you have name-brand schools/companies/open-source projects on your resume, or if you have connections inside the company.

Re: Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

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Post by ryandrake »

ryanklee wrote: post #75
duiker101 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow that's a lot of applications. I am actually shocked. How come? Are you not getting the jobs or are you striving for the perfect position? Were all those applications hand crafter for each position?

His numbers track closely to mine when I had only an unrelated career behind me. 300~ applications. ~25 actual rejections. ~15 phone interviews. ~5 onsites. ~1 accepted. It felt both necessary and successful, considering the junior dev market is flooded and treacherous.

Your numbers and css’s Numbers line up pretty closely to my last job hunt, and I’m fairly senior. Around 150-200 applications, 10% communicated rejection, 5% phone screen, the rest no reply. Seems about right.

Re: Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

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Post by ryandrake »

ohsik wrote: post #30
WestCoastJustin wrote: post #4

How do you plan on making money? My concern would be that you need to be extremely upfront about what data you're collecting and if you're selling it back to these companies whom the person interviewed with (even if anonymized). This is a very personal exchange between an employee and employer that could have significant impact on employment negotiations. For example, I might not want employer A, knowing that I'm als…

Thank you for the comment! To be honest with you, I didn't expect to get this much traction but that's something I have been thinking about a lot lately for the future of the product. I'm still not sure the exact path of monetizing the product yet but I know I want After Interview to help people to get the job they want rather than selling data to companies. Currently, companies can claim their company pages but exch…

Is there an offline-only mode that does not access a server or collect data? I could see using this as a local-only way to keep organized without needing any cloudy features.

Re: Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

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Post by fudged71 »

css wrote: post #9

I just made a spreadsheet I added to over time to track this type of stuff for myself. It is interesting to see the process in a graph [0]. Would be really interesting to see this data aggregated for industries or specific positions. [0] https://i.imgur.com/NnzXT6K.jpg

The graph is interesting, sure. Is it useful? Did you learn anything about your process that you used to improve?

Re: Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

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Post by fillskills »

ohsik wrote: post #30
WestCoastJustin wrote: post #4

How do you plan on making money? My concern would be that you need to be extremely upfront about what data you're collecting and if you're selling it back to these companies whom the person interviewed with (even if anonymized). This is a very personal exchange between an employee and employer that could have significant impact on employment negotiations. For example, I might not want employer A, knowing that I'm als…

Thank you for the comment! To be honest with you, I didn't expect to get this much traction but that's something I have been thinking about a lot lately for the future of the product. I'm still not sure the exact path of monetizing the product yet but I know I want After Interview to help people to get the job they want rather than selling data to companies. Currently, companies can claim their company pages but exch…

Can I speak with you about this? I have been working on this market for a bit and have some product ideas that might be useful to you. Email me :)

Re: Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

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Post by cik2e »

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #4

How do you plan on making money? My concern would be that you need to be extremely upfront about what data you're collecting and if you're selling it back to these companies whom the person interviewed with (even if anonymized). This is a very personal exchange between an employee and employer that could have significant impact on employment negotiations. For example, I might not want employer A, knowing that I'm als…

SaaS with a strict privacy policy should do it for most customers. You could have varying levels of privacy at different price tiers. E.g. a free tier where some PII is sold and go from there.
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