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Job Hunting in 2022

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Re: Job Hunting in 2022

#11

Sounds about expected even in current conditions. If you are fairly skilled programmer, somewhat senior. These layoffs don’t matter. I assure you that you won’t die of hunger if you quit/are laid off. Plenty of demand for non-coasters.

Exactly. I was fired from a tech job a decade ago and I found plenty of food to eat in the dumpsters and it wasn't hard to get enough day labor cleaning up puke that I was able to buy a tarp to sleep under.

Joking, but this also a true story.

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#12

Sounds about expected even in current conditions. If you are fairly skilled programmer, somewhat senior. These layoffs don’t matter. I assure you that you won’t die of hunger if you quit/are laid off. Plenty of demand for non-coasters.

Exactly. I was fired from a tech job a decade ago and I found plenty of food to eat in the dumpsters and it wasn't hard to get enough day labor cleaning up puke that I was able to buy a tarp to sleep under. Joking, but this also a true story.

I now want to hear the very detailed version if this story.

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#13

Thanks for sharing. Congrats to the author. 11 offers is amazing I doubt one can get so many in today's market but the good thing is you dont really need so many, 1 good one is enough. Ideally you have 2 so that you can nagotiate more easily.

thanks! I agree that you don't need this many offers - I took the time to interview at more places since I wanted to explore what was out there. Wouldn't recommend interviewing this heavily.

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#14

Granted I've only attempted the Amazon interview of the FAANGs, but good job to the OP for cracking the FAANG interviews with only 60ish leetcode questions. I'm at 150 and have yet to crack any.

To be clear, I explicitly chose to not interview at FAANGs since I was previously at a FAANG and wanted to try my hand at a different type of company. I'd probably practice a bit more for FAANGs

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#15

Sounds about expected even in current conditions. If you are fairly skilled programmer, somewhat senior. These layoffs don’t matter. I assure you that you won’t die of hunger if you quit/are laid off. Plenty of demand for non-coasters.

Yeah if you're good and have the resume/experience to back it up, you won't have any issues getting great offers even in this market. Great candidates are not easy to find in any market.

This must be extremely subjective. Many times over I see very well qualified candidates spending months in this market looking for a position - when it took them weeks before.

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#16
> Focus on your physical self: make sure you've gotten enough sleep, have food ready to go for lunch, and have breaks between the interviews if possible. If the interviewer asks if you need a minute at the start, and you do - please take it.

This is great advice! I interviewed in 2022 and found that I performed significantly better when well rested. I also found that eating healthy helped during the post-lunch interviews.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

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#17

I wrote a similar post but my search was in May instead of at the end of the year: https://www.observationalhazard.com/2022/05/my-experience-wi...

I wonder, if somebody has not a happy story, but an ongoing story of failures in job search - would he write such a story? Or we hear only from those who succeeds? Or, assuming that everybody eventually succeeds, those who take years to find a position won't write about it, as they are too exhausted or embarrassed?

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#18
post #9

That first impression (and how you tackled it) of system design interviews makes me question their usefulness. Like, how good of a signal can companies really be getting if it's too different from real world systems? Feels like an artificial wall too - many companies don't approach the scale where this stuff matters, so getting that experience is hard.

To be fair, these interviews provide a lot of valuable signal in terms of how you approach tradeoffs and explore a problem space. In that sense they're quite similar to the work I did at $dayjob, just in a compressed timeframe (which makes it challenging). As you said, the questions are similar to real world systems at these companies -- it's just that you won't have experience with these systems unless you've worked at these companies before. It's a catch-22.

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post #17

I wrote a similar post but my search was in May instead of at the end of the year: https://www.observationalhazard.com/2022/05/my-experience-wi...

I wonder, if somebody has not a happy story, but an ongoing story of failures in job search - would he write such a story? Or we hear only from those who succeeds? Or, assuming that everybody eventually succeeds, those who take years to find a position won't write about it, as they are too exhausted or embarrassed?

I've heard / read stories from people who tried really hard and failed to find jobs (both within tech, but unfortunately more common outside of tech). Unfortunately they don't get as much traction as people prefer to hear stories with a happy ending
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