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Post by refurb »

unity1001 wrote: post #800
hnews_account_1 wrote: post #580

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Don’t worry. Online forums are always like that. They’ll pretend like they’ve never had a high pressure job that paid out handsomely if you applied yourself and hence motivated you to work harder. To them, they think everyone should have work life balance from the age of 23 just because they’ve discovered its importance at 32 years of age. Young people have to work hard. I don’t expect my reports to work on any eveni…

> Young people have to work hard If people have to work hard to make a good living in the 21st century that we are now in, then it means that whatever society they are in has failed.

No it's not. Clearly our standard of living keeps improving, so costs keep going up.

I could work 10 hours a week and easily afford a 1920's lifestyle. But I prefer 21st century healthcare.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by hnews_account_1 »

unity1001 wrote: post #800
hnews_account_1 wrote: post #580

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t worry. Online forums are always like that. They’ll pretend like they’ve never had a high pressure job that paid out handsomely if you applied yourself and hence motivated you to work harder. To them, they think everyone should have work life balance from the age of 23 just because they’ve discovered its importance at 32 years of age. Young people have to work hard. I don’t expect my reports to work on any eveni…

> Young people have to work hard If people have to work hard to make a good living in the 21st century that we are now in, then it means that whatever society they are in has failed.

Unless you are born disabled, you’d better be born in a society that values hard work. At least until we reach self sustaining societies where no one needs to work, the dynamics of which are not worth speculation from our current standpoint in history.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by jcadam »

DeathArrow wrote: post #736
jcadam wrote: post #677

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I was laid off at the beginning of October and still can’t find anything. It’s definitely a buyer’s market for senior level engineering talent.

Me too. I was laid off at the beginning of October. I got three good offers, picked the best and signed the contract. I went through about 15 interviews and applied to maybe 50 positions.

If I were at 5-10 years experience, I'd probably have much better luck. That seems to be the sweet spot.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by xeromal »

dangerwill wrote: post #565
anonym29 wrote: post #311

I would like to offer some tips for those faced with the potential of layoffs that I have compiled. I understand much of these come too late for those already affected, but for those worried about the prospect, these can help to ease the pain if it does happen: • Check if your company pays out unused PTO, sick days, etc as cash. If they do, do not use any of the applicable type(s) unless you are going to lose it. • H…

"Build up a rolodex of recruiters." - Given the sheer amount of LinkedIn spam I get from all over the world and for all kinds of roles, I doubt that most recruiters see any individual SWE on LinkedIn as anything other than a cell in a spreadsheet, no matter how friendly you are to them over email.

I've worked with a handful of botique recruitment firms that have < 10 employees. They can be really handy in a pinch.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by bfung »

jacobsenscott wrote: post #766
oblio wrote: post #747

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> I feel most decent engineers can get rehired elsewhere with 14 weeks of runway. Oh, sweet summer children and children of recession free economies for IT. If job openings fall to 10-20-30% of current ones and tens, hundreds of thousands of IT workers are fired, good luck getting hired quickly, when any of the few good remaining job opening has hundreds of good applicants. We'll be back to the days of: Sure, you can…

Can we please retire this "sweet summer child" thing? It is annoying af, rude, and likely never written by anyone over 30.

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Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by benatkin »

Izkata wrote: post #853
jacobsenscott wrote: post #766

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Can we please retire this "sweet summer child" thing? It is annoying af, rude, and likely never written by anyone over 30.

> and likely never written by anyone over 30. As someone in my 30s, I've always thought of it as an "old-timey/old person phrase", same as sibling comment's "bless your heart".

It's a new expression to me (in regular use, I had heard it before but not often) but it also works fine. I disagree that we need to get rid of it just because it's old fashioned.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by tptacek »

csomar wrote: post #856
oblio wrote: post #747

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> I feel most decent engineers can get rehired elsewhere with 14 weeks of runway. Oh, sweet summer children and children of recession free economies for IT. If job openings fall to 10-20-30% of current ones and tens, hundreds of thousands of IT workers are fired, good luck getting hired quickly, when any of the few good remaining job opening has hundreds of good applicants. We'll be back to the days of: Sure, you can…

Calm down. Demand is super strong, even right now. It's almost impossible to get a decent software engineer who has a strong command of the English language and can articulate himself. Most developers hitting the market with CVs are bootcamp generated and they don't have the slightest idea (and neither the interest) of what they are doing. They'll disappear as soon as the money does. Unless you have a family and live…

It's almost impossible to get a decent software engineer who has a strong command of the English language and can articulate himself.

No, it's not.

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