Curious on how many are taking this opportunity to start their own company. Would love to see a list
Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
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Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#52I'm not laid off but actively looking to change after spending a couple of years at my current employer. Despite being a staff engineer, managing 12 engineers, and having a solid revenue stream tied to my current team - I've mostly gotten rejections without interviews, 1-2 low ball offers, or radio silence. I cannot imagine how hard this must be for those laid-off, hopefully this storm passes soon. EDIT: you cannot m…
Freelancer here; this time of year there is always a slowdown. Holiday vacation absences make scheduling all the right people to interview harder. I set aside extra the rest of the year to smooth over the drop off in responses late-Oct/Jan period. By February I usually get swarmed with asks to tackle projects and can pick ones that are actually interesting. Then it happens again in summer as people with enough money…
Curious what do you specialize in? Sounds like your engagements are usually like 3mos max?
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#53I have been laid off since August, the options I have in front of me are not positive (things have slowed to a trickle where I am in the US), and I hope the New Year will be better, but...
Otherwise I will look into non-tech related work to meet expenses.
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've not been laid off either. I'm currently taking a break from jobs. I'm starting to think that it's time to go back to full-time employment. But I'm looking at the job market and think it might be better to give it 4-6 months. Let all the companies that are going to do layoffs have their layoffs and then join a company still looking for new devs in a few months.
>But I'm looking at the job market and think it might be better to give it 4-6 months. I'm fascinated by this. How does one do this? Two options I can think of are being independently wealthy and being dependent on another. Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"?
> Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"?
It's not that hard to accomplish for those who can be(come) location independent. For instance[1]:
> You would need around 2,582.16$ in Budapest to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 8,700.00$ in San Francisco, CA (assuming you rent in both cities).
[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#55No longer hunt for work. Instead will spend 1 year to build product for my own customers. Again, software engineering is such a great career, when you can create valuable things for others in case of crisis.
This is intriguing. Can you provide more details? Did you have customers prior to deciding to "no longer hunt for work"? Or do you plan to find customers/build a new product?
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#56For those of you feeling down about being ignored, keep in mind this is the slowest hiring time of the year, with holidays and vacations, and end of year budgets. Even in down markets, hiring tends to pick up in January as managers get their hiring budgets for the new year and are back in the office. Hang in there!
You’re totally right; but I’m nervous for my laid-off friends that will burn through 80% of their severance over the holiday season. :(
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#57I’d ask in a month. It’s still early since the layoffs. I’d guess that even for people who were laid off first, started looking immediately, and found plenty of hits, few have accepted jobs. I’m much more curious in 4-5 months. I assume VC funding is harder to get now, for example, but I don’t think that’ll make a massive impact for a little while.
I got connected to someone impacted at Twitter on Saturday, within 24 hours of them being notified they were impacted by the layoff. I talked with them for an hour that next Monday AM about the opportunities my teams have open, one of which was highly relevant to their skills, and by the time we chatted, they had 3-4 interviews with other companies scheduled. Joined the dots to the hiring manager and recruiters. They…
Curious if you don’t mind sharing, did this candidate have crazy comp due to Twitter RSUs before the implosion? And if so, are you all roughly matching that, or they’re settling for less?
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#58I wasn't laid off, but am unemployed. I've found it very difficult to land any interviews, or even get a response from companies. Even what I thought were safe bets (like a job at a bank, writing CRUD apps) do not respond. I've only had one interview this year. It was with a FAANG. I easily passed and got an offer, but then layoffs were announced and they had to revoke.
You easily passed a FAANG interview?
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#59I'm gonna let the H1B folks take first crack at things...I'll start looking in a week or two.
Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
>But I'm looking at the job market and think it might be better to give it 4-6 months. I'm fascinated by this. How does one do this? Two options I can think of are being independently wealthy and being dependent on another. Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"?
> Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"? It's not that hard to accomplish for those who can be(come) location independent. For instance[1]: > You would need around 2,582.16$ in Budapest to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 8,700.00$ in San Francisco, CA (assuming you rent in both cities). [1] https://www.…
Budapest is a strange choice for comparison.
Just about anywhere in the United States will be a lot cheaper than SF, too, without the huge inconvenience of moving internationally.