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Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by Lio »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #27
danesparza wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it was because of my age. What do you mean? Are you young and they were interested? Or a senior level developer who was older and they were interested?

No. I'm old (I'm now 60. I was 55, when I was looking). The ageism in tech is pervasive. People seldom even bother hiding it; even though it's just as illegal as sexism or racism.

I've heard of plenty of companies publishing gender and ethnicity breakdowns of employees. I've never heard of anyone doing that for age of employees sadly.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by gaws »

the_only_law wrote: post #4

Not a single interview so far since a November (albeit I paused looking around the holidays figuring it was out less but didn’t get started again till a bit into January. Going to attempt to pay for a resume rewrite and see if it helps any.

Are you in the USA?

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by vlod »

I'm doing consultancy (mainly becz I haven't found a startup that I'm interested in joining) and I'm find the hourly rates (in the US) are really low (below FTE).

Not sure if it's because of all these layoffs or just yearly budgets haven't been done yet. (I'm generally looking for react/nodejs/rest/graphql type 1099 roles).

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by gaws »

anon8056 wrote: post #28

Laid off from a US remote backend/data role in a large, FAANG-adjacent tech company in early January. I have always had a high callback rate with 20+ years of experience and a CS degree from a tier 1 university. This time, my only callbacks were through internal referrals from my network or introductions made through recruiters. I ended up with two offers by the end of January, one from a growing startup and the othe…

> I ended up with two offers by the end of January, one from a growing startup and the other from a mid-market company with a conservative business model. Given the slowdown in the market, I'm thankful to have found something so quickly.

Which one offer did you take?

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by barbazoo »

moffkalast wrote: post #45
bugbuddy wrote: post #17

I was a senior dev at a big tech and got laid off in November. I have applied to hundreds of places. Not a lot of responses. I have been doing interview preps the whole time. It has been very demoralizing and I am thinking of switching careers to something else. I have been considering skilled trades. I like carpentry in particular.

Every programmer eventually becomes a woodworker, whether they like it or not.

Some of them become blacksmiths as I recently learned.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by abledon »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #12
irrational wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you looking? How many years experience do you have? What types of positions are you looking for?

Remote US, 9 years experience, backend IC.

esoteric programming language? Java seems to have lots of positions

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by ambicapter »

dbmkn wrote: post #64
Jommi wrote: post #38

We're hiring at our company. We've had a lot of people come through from the recent waves of layoffs, and usually so far there has been a mix of too high expectations, remote work mismatches as well as just lots of people not making the bar (we are a small company). Still on the lookout for senior rust engineers who want to work at a company that's remote-first with a minimal-meetings culture. You can message me on t…

Is your expectation that people are proficient in Rust already or are you hiring generalist senior engineers who can pick up Rust?

Also want to know this.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by exitb »

jaxomlotus wrote: post #66

Here's the flip side: I was hiring (at a stealth vc-funded startup). I reached out to every designer and coder laid off from Twitter and Amazon (one of my investors sent me a spreadsheet that those laid off folks added their contact info to). I didn't receive a single interested response to my reach outs. Now granted, I'm sure they were bombarded with lots of startup offers and being picky what company/stage they wer…

I just want to point out that it’s quite horrible that this sort of lists are floating around.

EDIT: As other commenters are pointing out, this appears to be a list of voluntarily added people. In such case the lack of replies is indeed puzzling.

Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

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Post by bobleeswagger »

jonnycoder wrote: post #49
iLoveOncall wrote: post #23

Remember that there are many reasons why someone would not get hired despite having top work experience. I have seen people out of FAANGs with 10+ years of experience sharing their CV after being laid off and some will struggle to get any interview, let alone get a good job, just because the format of said CV was absolutely awful. If you aren't getting interviews, it's your CV that is the problem.

Can you give some examples of bad format?

Adding detail seems like a good idea, a CV is really communicating how well you can boil off the meaningless details and manage upwards. It's more sales than we are taught or intuitively realize.

You are selling your time.

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