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Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by 9wzYQbTYsAIc »

flibble wrote: post #226

Flipdish (food-tech / online ordering for restaurants) is hiring remote developers (.NET) https://www.flipdish.com/careers/ Mention HN in the application and I’ll make sure it’s prioritised. I’m totally biased, but I think we’ve a great culture and lovely and friendly tech team who love solving problems together and getting stuff shipped.

> Flipdish is based in Dublin, you will need to be currently eligible to work in Ireland without the need for sponsorship.

How does sponsorship work for those in the US?

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by epitrochoidal »

georgemcbay wrote: post #493
eropple wrote: post #125

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> But in February, there wasn't any sign of an economic downturn. Everyone was enjoying the bull market. First: I’m super sorry about what you’re going through and I hope things work out with your new employer. Second: I worry that “nobody could have known” will be the narrative. A very large portion of my circles was aware that COVID was about to explode and that the prevention measures would either drastically slow…

My "circles" (which include a friend married to a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor who had been in Wuhan last October) knew that COVID-19 was possibly a serious concern, but also "knew" that it could have wound up as another SARS (not that SARS wasn't terrible, but it was also very localized in terms of overall impact). I don't think we should excuse the many failures of our leaders, but I also don't think the now-obv…

>I don't think we should excuse the many failures of our leaders, but I also don't think the now-obvious economic impact of this crisis was that clearcut even a month ago.

Good way of looking at it.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by jacob_rezi »

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.

If I can help anyway with rezi - please let me know. https://rezi.io

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by leandot »

Miktor wrote: post #349

This is probably a long shot - and I'm sure you'll see quite a few posts like this over the coming weeks - but I'm going to swallow my pride and ask nonetheless. I've been a data entry clerk for the past twenty years, working for a major bookmaker in Northern Ireland. With the coronavirus pandemic hitting recently, many businesses have decided to lay off large numbers of staff. I've just become one of the unfortunate…

Hi Miktor, if you'd like to be contacted you should add contact information in your "about" section.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by daxorid »

Rafuino wrote: post #91
conductr wrote: post #75

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People keep saying “recession” but that sounds like they don’t understand the implications of what’s happening to the world economy right now. “Global depression” seems like a more appropriate term but time will tell. I’m a CFO of $300M company that employees ~2200 employees. We’re out of cash in 6 weeks if our revenue continues to decline. Down 30% vs last year this week (which is good compared to most). Doing layof…

Yeah, resuming business and being OK with the death toll is certainly an unpopular opinion. If you have hospitals overwhelmed because business just has to continue, business will suffer regardless. I also don't quite understand how a $300M (assuming revenue, not valuation) company can run out of cash in 6 weeks. You're saying you can't make payroll in 6 weeks at the current trajectory?

This is one of the consequences of the modern obsession with "reach for yield" or growth at any cost. Everyone feels pressure to put every single dollar "to work", because everyone else is. It's an extremely fragile modus operandi, but managers would get fired for underperforming their peers if they didn't do it, so the incentive structure guaranteed the result.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by codersteve »

101404 wrote: post #538
inlined wrote: post #476

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“Under qualified for your years” is ageist bullshit. You’re either a capable L3,4,5,etc. Any coupling of those achievement brackets to age ranges (which cannot be completely detached from experience level) is discrimination.

Pretty sure it means "years of work" and not age.

That’s the plausible deniability part of it.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by unionleader »

29athrowaway wrote: post #530
ccajas wrote: post #353

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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…

My algorithm: 1) Decide which software engineering related role you want to work on (e.g. web frontends) 2) Enumerate the top skills that are relevant to that role by visiting job postings in companies you would like to work for. e.g.: React. 3) Enumerate the subset of those skills that you have. Those are your strenghts. Work in acquiring the skills you do not yet have. Those are your weaknesses (for now). 4) Visit…

This is great advice! In modern tech there is nonsuch thing as "my resume" only "the version of my resume i drafted to apply to a particular position". The fullstack developer is still wanted, engineering manager just want them to be fullstack in the exact stack their team is using.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by lmeyerov »

conductr wrote: post #497
lmeyerov wrote: post #381

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Sell some stock and come out stronger than competitors. Lobotomizing hurts more if you're good. If you can't, well, that says a lot about the owners and company when push comes to shove. Not the narrative, but fundamentals. Of course, if $300M is VC ponzi valuation money, this was 80% fake anyways, and dependent on funny math continuing until the company caught up to the hype or exited to Someone Else's Problem, but…

I'm not sure how this will play out yet. But even with good fundamentals; we're in a traditional industry and business model not a startup and not software. Just active in an industry consolidation thus M&A. Very predictable revenue and growth rates before now. Question are 1) for current investors, do they want to infuse more cash to avoid the total loss 2) market is crazy so who wants to invest? terms? timing? 3) h…

The time thing is def hard, and I empathize with employees being both a responsibility yet the no-one-blames-you lever everyone expects right now.

At the same time, your top competitors are also getting ready to lobotomize, and the smaller players too. Some of their suppliers/partners are feeling it, and the customers on your market may soon be in need of someone new. So a lot of opportunity for strong co's to come out with power moves on their market, just the $ doesn't get seen for awhile. Contractions create gaps for those who don't, esp as this isn't about industries dying but temporary cash crunches.

There is so much VC/PE money out there, that this is a ripe time for them. Their q is 'where' and 'how much of a discount'. I'm obviously quarterbacking here, but similarly as your lever being firing, bank/PE/etc is spending.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by [deleted] »

mehrdadn wrote: post #496
dx034 wrote: post #495

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As a non American, may I ask why the sick leave policy only applies to companies with 50-500 employees? I couldn't find explanations there. Exempting small companies is often done as they likely cannot pay for this measure, but why exempt large companies too?

You'd have to ask the Republicans who apparently demanded this; I don't know what logic was behind it (if any).

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Re: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

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Post by dang »

meheleventyone wrote: post #518
meritt wrote: post #441

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As the owner of a fully remote, revenue-funded, and profitable startup that wants to hire, my concern is one that won't be particularly well received. I don't want to hire people, yet , because they're still thinking that https://levels.fyi is realistic. I'd rather wait a few rough months, have the pool of talent grow rapidly and people will start realizing that maybe paying $350k to a green React dev isn't very sust…

It’s kinda scary people with the ability to react and reduce suffering whilst also benefiting in kind are willing to exploit a global emergency and use that suffering to justify coming out a little ahead.

I see your point, but let's not attack each other like this here, especially not right now with stress and fear running so high. Better to treat this as an opportunity for an uptick in how well we treat each other.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

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