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

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Post by hmsp »

anthomtb wrote: post #180
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.

I am getting all sorts of confused by some of the responses here. Does woodworking mean building pretty furniture? Whereas carpentry means building big sturdy structures?

Yes.

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

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Post by cartermatic »

Senior Product Designer with 8 years of professional experience, 9 years of freelance experience. Got laid off Thanksgiving week and applied to about 35 jobs but did end up landing a new role that I started on the 30th of January. Took about a 10% base pay cut but there's also a 10% bonus that if eligible, will put me close to my previous role. 9 rounds total and took about a month but this included time off for the holidays. Funnily enough it was one of the first jobs I applied for.

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

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Post by elamje »

I'm helping place people at my friends Seed and Series A companies if anyone is interested. VC money is still there but pumping into Seed/Series A companies with more upside now rather than insane B, C, D companies that have no profitability in sight.

email me at j{at}markovmanagement.com if interested :)

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

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Post by lbrito »

dream-cast wrote: post #178

Personally I find it amusing watching tech workers who were resting and vesting from the 2016 to 2022 period find out how broken the hiring system is. Here's a tip, it always was. I struggled to find a job for years and the only advice people in tech were willing to give is that I should have gone to Standford (Washington State University for life) or I should just try harder. Eventually I got a job in a call center…

>I hope you all suffer like I had to suffer.

I'm sorry for the ill-minded advice you got, but not everyone in tech is an asshole.

By definition a very small minority has Ivy-league, trust fund-brat backgrounds. There are people from all walks of life, many like yours, and not few that would think _you_ are spoiled and entitled - I've seen developers from Gaza posting on HN, for instance. Give that a thought before wishing suffering for all.

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

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Post by renewiltord »

sosodev wrote: post #114

I was laid off in early December. I applied to a couple hundred positions, interviewed with around 10%, and received two offers at the beginning of this month. The market is pretty rough. I had a lot of good interviews fizzle out into rejections after the final round. I assume this is because I was competing with several other recently laid off engineers. My new salary is 33% less than my previous and I’m getting muc…

In practice, that 33% salary drop is bumped up by the fact that you're employed while receiving severance, right? Or is that not how it is structured? (I've never laid off anyone or been laid off)

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

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

nfw2 wrote: post #179

I was laid off in June. This coincided with my mom being diagnosed with cancer, and because I had a fair amount of saving, I took some time to support family and work on some personal projects. I started looking again at the start of this year, and it's been rough, at least compared to my last job search where I had multiple offers in under two weeks. I've submitted ~50 applications so far, most with a non-generic co…

You probably need to pack your CV with keywords to get past the automated filter.

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

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Post by pyrrhotech »

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…

Or they are looking at those juicy severance checks and deciding to take a 6 month vacation before applying anywhere again, using state of the economy as an excuse.

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

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Post by itronitron »

Apocryphon wrote: post #98
barbazoo wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of them become blacksmiths as I recently learned.

Wonder how hard it is to get started with glassblowing

Definitely go to a glassblowing camp if you are interested. If you have prior experience trying to control a fluid medium, like pottery for example, then that may help. In order to set up your own shop you'll want to be somewhere with low fuel costs.

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

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Post by elamje »

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 saw this as well for most of 2022. Our company was hiring, and my founder friends would pass me the layoff lists, but I'd never hear back from the people I pinged.

If anyone is struggling and is on the mid/senior/director side of their career (3+ yrs), I'm helping place people at my friends Seed and Series A companies.

VC money is still there but pumping into Seed/Series A companies with more upside now rather than insane B, C, D companies that have no profitability in sight. email me at j{at}markovmanagement.com if interested :)

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