Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

Post by baristaGeek » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 5:44 PM UTC

Aurornis wrote: post #247

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Oh yeah, if you're talking about dev shops, don't hire dev shops (the "hired" VS extremely green person phenomenon you're talking about happens in these kinds of companies because their incentive is to sell hours/men, instead of actual value). Do your diligence, and your technical/communication/leadership interviews to make sure you're hiring the right person. And if it doesn't work out after 2-3 months, fire the per…

> It happens in all formats of work whether it's remote, hybrid, or onsite. You're not wrong, but it's missing the point. It's so much harder and riskier to do this onsite that it's not very common. Why anyone would try to do this onsite instead of getting a remote job to do it is beyond me. With remote, a group of people can defraud multiple companies at the same time this way. They can do it all remotely, which mea…

Post by roflyear » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

vvpan wrote: post #121

zer8k wrote: post #28

> on HN The most important subtext. There are engineer friends of mine laid off from remote companies that, almost 5 months later, cannot get work. These aren't braindead seatwarmers either. The software engineer market has shifted under our feet DRAMATICALLY. Any software engineer with a position should try to keep it for as long as they possible can.

Yeah, this is all anecdotal, but I'll add my 2c - been in the business for something like 15 years and was looking for work in May. It has never felt deader, remote or onsite. Usually recruiters are beating down your door. This time not even friends could get me any interviews. The way I got a job was by writing some technical articles and establishing a relationship with a very energetic VC person. I asked him if he…

Post by rejectfinite » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

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cj wrote: post #152

Side note to the remote founders/employers out there: Have you been plagued by applicant fraud? We've found for all of our remote engineering roles, we get 100's of amazing applicants who are all fake (clearly not actually in the US) once you get them on a screening call. They're often reading from a script, broken english, and say strange things like they're born and raised in Texas, yet can't speak fluent English o…

> have a heavy accent. Idk if this is an actual signal of anything, at least with mexican-american people I noticed they still have a unique accent. First gen americans can live in ethnic bubbles, and not speak english primarily, especially if their parents didnt put in any effort to speak english.

Post by bluefishinit » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

Aurornis wrote: post #214

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How were they measuring productivity per employee? I see that bandied about for a lot of RTO arguments, but it's extremely hard if not impossible to do, so it's important to talk about the methodology driving the decision making.

> How were they measuring productivity per employee? Productivity was ultimately measured by talking to the people and asking what they've been working on, what the challenges were, and why it was taking so long. When we'd talk to some of these people, they could barely come up with a story for what they had been doing all week. The metrics were used as an indicator of where to investigate, not as an ultimate measure…

Post by welfare » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

rejectfinite wrote: post #255

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> have a heavy accent. Idk if this is an actual signal of anything, at least with mexican-american people I noticed they still have a unique accent. First gen americans can live in ethnic bubbles, and not speak english primarily, especially if their parents didnt put in any effort to speak english.

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