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Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by programmarchy »

vmception wrote: post #298
mostlyghostly wrote: post #295

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And most of these tests are basically bullshit, in terms of real world impact. What's the contest here? Who's most desperate, most willing to sacrifice their life and health for pennies on the dollar? Seriously. I'm a middle aged guy with kids and parents to take care of. I'm not in a position to spend 30 hours / week doing bullshit puzzles & memorizing an algo book for crap that is basically irrelevant to my job. Yo…

I'm good at that too, have none of the obligations you do and am just as put off by it. The market values my skills, but I have to do this stuff on my own now. You can make more than big tech will pay you by building in the crypto assets sector by yourself. In the recent past it was just side-gig consulting at an hourly rate or trying to do bug bounties. Now you can just hang out on Telegram or Wechat and learn what…

Any tips on where to get started developing crypto assets? Learn how to build Ethereum smart contracts?

Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by itronitron »

kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #254
itronitron wrote: post #220

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I recommend buying a round trip ticket with a return date of two weeks later. That way airlines won't block you out of concern that they will be forced to fly you back at their expense. You can later cancel the return ticket and apply the credit (minus a fee) to a later trip.

I didn't really get your suggestion. There won't be any 'flying back' coz if the airlines are blocking me, I won't be allowed to board the onwards leg of the journey.

In a lot of cases airlines will block people from flying to a foreign country if they have a one-way ticket because the airline expects the destination country will block the person from entering the country because the one way ticket implies they are not visiting as a tourist.

In that case the airline is required to fly the person back.

This is more common now with various Covid-19 travel restrictions so airlines are also asking for all testing paperwork that is required for the destination countries.

Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by austincheney »

syspec wrote: post #307
austincheney wrote: post #301

The advise in the article is great for beginners or people willing to work as beginners. For people who are senior developers or who have previously been in corporate management these tips won’t work. If you are a senior developer you shouldn’t be spending any time on practice interview whiteboards. You should already know how to code with confidence and be ready to honestly disclose where your experience ends. A goo…

This advice while noble, will it help you land a job

I based that advise upon my own personal experience. If it wasn't true for me I wouldn't have written it.

Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by danans »

notxnphbk wrote: post #289
tdeck wrote: post #152

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Funny to see this pop up because I happen to know who is behind this cluster of sites (i.e. https://ustechworkers.com/ https://www.cfpup.org/ ) and it's basically one super right-wing guy and some wealthy donors. None of these is a real union or even a real community group. It's wealthy lobbyists who want to oppose immigration. I always thought it was really shady.

> It's wealthy lobbyists who want to oppose immigration That is funny, I would have never thought that wealthy lobbyists would ever be against easy and mass immigration policies to dilute the labor supply. Much better for corporations to hire people who are willing to work either more cheaply or out of a sense of desperation because job demand is lower than the available/willing worker pool. Do you have a sound logic…

> Do you have a sound logical reason for why wealthy lobbyists would go out of their way to spend money on opposing immigration?

Xenophobia.

Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by austincheney »

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #308
austincheney wrote: post #301

The advise in the article is great for beginners or people willing to work as beginners. For people who are senior developers or who have previously been in corporate management these tips won’t work. If you are a senior developer you shouldn’t be spending any time on practice interview whiteboards. You should already know how to code with confidence and be ready to honestly disclose where your experience ends. A goo…

Not true at all. Senior developers are routinely subject to the same algorithmic questions in their coding interviews, especially at FAANG (I successfully interviewed and got offers for senior positions at multiple FAANGs two years ago). Even worse, the actual coding one does on the job is a completely different skill set than being able to dish out Dynamic Programming recurrences and tree traversals under tight time…

> Even worse, the actual coding one does on the job is a completely different

When I encounter this during an interview, which I have, I don't accept the offer. Why would I want to go through an interview process that is completely unrelated to the job I will be performing? There is no expectation of success in that and its completely open to disappointment. Again, if you are a beginner you do what you must. Senior developers are fewer and in greater demand so they can afford to be a bit more selective.

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Post by mgraczyk »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #320
ctvo wrote: post #312

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> I can't believe this is how interviewing works in this field. Everyone in every other respectable field (and ones that pay as well or better, and have worse consequences for hiring a "bad fit") seems entitled to some baseline level of respect and recognition for their experience and work. Having some smarmy piece of shit ask questions from Jr.-year computer science should be justifiable grounds for a broken nose. T…

>For 300k+ a year? I'll find a way to deal with it. I would too even for half that but unfortunately, in Europe, lots of the fancy tech corps. are adopting the SV style mult-day take home project/on-site interview grind but only paying $65-85k/year. I'm still thinking whether I can make it in this field till retirement(FIRE is out of the question at this pay) or if I should just change to something else while I still…

None of the FAANG companies I've worked at have take home projects or multi-day interviews.

Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by mathattack »

kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #55
mathattack wrote: post #39

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I don’t intend to seem callous, so please help educate me. If you marry a citizen, that accelerated the Green Card. If you marry a non-citizen, your situation is precarious, so why not rent rather than buy? I’m not arguing that the rules are right. (They are clearly wrong) Just that if you’re ina precarious situation, avoid doing things that make it worse. When I lived abroad, the expats were all aware of being on bo…

I am not offended and you have been polite, so please don't remove your posts. Renting vs buying is fine. We can choose to rent all our lives and frankly in the Bay Area buying isn't even that slam dunk of a decision anyway. My point was a bit more general. It's very common for people to argue 'technically' about how others should live their lives while missing their ground reality. For instance, it's easy to say "We…

Thanks for engaging politely and directly in a tough conversation.

Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by vmception »

programmarchy wrote: post #321
vmception wrote: post #298

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I'm good at that too, have none of the obligations you do and am just as put off by it. The market values my skills, but I have to do this stuff on my own now. You can make more than big tech will pay you by building in the crypto assets sector by yourself. In the recent past it was just side-gig consulting at an hourly rate or trying to do bug bounties. Now you can just hang out on Telegram or Wechat and learn what…

Any tips on where to get started developing crypto assets? Learn how to build Ethereum smart contracts?

Developing crypto assets is ONE thing and not necessarily the most lucrative - this part is actually very crowded because it is too easy

EVM is good to know for an ongoing career, but more practically building wallets, exchanges, algorithms, trade routing systems, data visualizations, ad space on a website that provides utility, ad space on a bot that shows pricing data to a chat room, a better gui that happens to take a cut of transactions when people use it —- these are all options

so many things, so much, so easy

harder to focus as the space moves at light speed

Re: Laid Off, Now What?

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Post by taneq »

notxnphbk wrote: post #289
tdeck wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny to see this pop up because I happen to know who is behind this cluster of sites (i.e. https://ustechworkers.com/ https://www.cfpup.org/ ) and it's basically one super right-wing guy and some wealthy donors. None of these is a real union or even a real community group. It's wealthy lobbyists who want to oppose immigration. I always thought it was really shady.

> It's wealthy lobbyists who want to oppose immigration That is funny, I would have never thought that wealthy lobbyists would ever be against easy and mass immigration policies to dilute the labor supply. Much better for corporations to hire people who are willing to work either more cheaply or out of a sense of desperation because job demand is lower than the available/willing worker pool. Do you have a sound logic…

Follow the money, as always. It's a bit hard to find any solid policy suggestions in the links above amongst all the fearmongering, but I'd wager that whatever their stated aims, they're not really pushing for reduced immigration, but rather for reduced protections for skilled migrants.

The more power employers hold over their skilled migrant workers, the more money they can make (from not only their skilled migrant workers but also from the rest of their workforce, who are now competing with the latter.)

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