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Re: Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

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Post by lozaning »

jwestbury wrote: post #257
FooBarBizBazz wrote: post #164

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Dude, you don't need high tech to slaughter the innocent, any fool can do that. What gold-plated weapons systems do is credibly deter a Chinese landing force from showing up in Taipei, or help the Ukranians achieve the 5+ K/D ratios they need to survive as an independent nation. I'd be happier to know that my code would let a shaped charge target a J20 cockpit in the unlikely event of Really Bad Decision Making, than…

> They don't pay enough for you to ever own a house in a desirable place; I know plenty of people who took pay cuts to work in cleared jobs at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. If you're talented, you can make a lot in the defense and intelligence community. > and your sensitive data will get hacked by China anyway Hacked? No. Most sensitive data is kept on air-gapped networks. Not really hackable. Can be exfiltrated, s…

May wanna double check that OOPM cant be hacked

Re: Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

skyyler wrote: post #260
Our_Benefactors wrote: post #254

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> It's not insult if it's verifiably true, is it? You are being incredibly uncharitable, bordering on dishonesty. Cars kill babies every year too but it’s not why people get into the automobile industry. And this isn’t the “reality check” own that you think it is. It’s actually very condescending, and reductionist. You have not even attempted to refute the idea that a defense industry is necessary to maintain peace.

You're assuming that I think baby-killers shouldn't be working in the defense industry or that I think there shouldn't be a defense industry or something. No, I want people that aren't baby-killers to avoid it. That's all. The defense industry is important and needs staff, staff that are OK with babies being killed. It's starting to sound like you're a baby-killing defense industry employee, and if you are I want you…

> It's starting to sound like you're a baby-killing defense industry employee

Couldn’t be further from the truth. No defense, no finance is the promise I made to myself when I started my career.

My point is that you are insulting the intelligence of people both in and out of the field with toxic, pithy remarks like that. It serves no purpose but to agitate.

Re: Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

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Post by Zedronar »

granshaw wrote: post #243
orihab wrote: post #231

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0 years of experience is definitely tough, but for mid level devs (3-6 yrs) it may actually be easier than super seniors, because yes, overqualification... Me personally I just started a job at a Canadian company after low key looking and applying to various companies for the past couple of months. And I definitely got a lot of ghosting/generic rejections but definitely less than 95%. I'm a good 3-5yr, mid-level dev,…

This might be one of those times to remove some experiences from your history, push forward your graduation date, and settle for a “normal” senior position (assuming all else fails)

What if they ask proof of your diploma? Providing forged documents (i.e. lie about graduation date) is a serious crime.

Re: Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

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Post by conductr »

granshaw wrote: post #157
fatnoah wrote: post #139

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I went through the process in the fall (starting about a month before being laid off, as it turns out) with almost 25 YOE. My background includes significant startup experience at all levels, plus FAANG and some bigger companies. It took me about 3 months to find a role. The process itself was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before. I've always been very targeted in applications, so prior to this the largest num…

> A not-so-fun fact is that all but one large-company recruiter I talked this has since been laid off. So 9 out of 10 were laid off? That's pretty shocking and dire if so...

Don’t need recruiters if you’re not hiring

Re: Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

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Post by alien8472 »

I have no words to describe how brutal it is. But my advice to finding opportunities at the moment especially in tech is seek more validation through oneself rather than through online validation, e.g. taking numerous advice from say random people on linkedin leads to a kind of survivorship bias effect. What works for others might not work for you, you have to discover within yourself before people discover you I have found in such a brutal market.

Re: Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

Zedronar wrote: post #263
granshaw wrote: post #243

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This might be one of those times to remove some experiences from your history, push forward your graduation date, and settle for a “normal” senior position (assuming all else fails)

What if they ask proof of your diploma? Providing forged documents (i.e. lie about graduation date) is a serious crime.

I’ve been asked for proof of my graduation exactly one time, and that was when I took a job at bank.
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