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Post by foobiekr »

whimsicalism wrote: post #79
CoastalCoder wrote: post #69

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This is my personal experience as well. I'm ~4 months in, and I'm still looking for an appealing job. Anyone know of a forum where people like me can candidly compare notes about finding a job after layoff? I'm learning so many lessons, but some could only be shared in an anonymous setting.

blind

One big problem with blind is that it trends very junior. Much of what’s on there is of little used to people who are older. I actually find most of the comments to be less informed than, say, fuckedcompany.com was back in the day.

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

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Post by RestlessMind »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #299
shmatt wrote: post #66

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Im not sure why this is even getting downvoted. Top pay of market has significantly shifted to hybrid. Even once a week in office means you can't live anywhere in the country you'd like. Though i'm not sure if the original article counts hybrid as remote in this case There are plenty of fully remote openings for senior software engineers looking for $100k TC right now. Every person can make their own calculation

> Top pay of market has significantly shifted to hybrid *In the U.S. In Canada, top pay is mostly full remote.

Are those all US based companies?

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Post by KRAKRISMOTT »

benfrancom wrote: post #215
CoastalCoder wrote: post #92

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Can't you only post to blind if you created your account while still employed? IIRC, I was able to create some kind of limited account after I was laid off, but I couldn't fully participate.

You could set up a custom domain if you don't have one already and forward the email for $8/yr. https://cloudflareapps.com/apps/email-forwarding

Email forwarding is free and built into CloudFlare.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Post by RestlessMind »

burlesona wrote: post #162
ravenstine wrote: post #85

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There's arguments from both sides of the coin but, though I'm biased having worked remote for almost 5 years now, I think the remote-side usually wins the argument by simply being more reasonable. I see far fewer remote workers claiming that "everyone should work remote" and more in-office workers making sweeping claims that remote reduces creativity, reduces, productivity, or makes people lazy. The anti-remote folks…

That's very interesting. My experience has been the opposite, that people who are pro-remote are intense about it, that they often deny there being any benefits to working in an office and get angry and dismissive toward anyone who says they want to work in-person. I would argue that the reason "remote wins" is that to get the full benefit of working in person you really need 100% of your team to work in the same bui…

> I think the long-term response is going to be more sorting of companies into all-remote or all in-person, with fewer companies in the "hybrid" space that's so common today.

I think the long-term is going to be a small percentage of fully-remote (mostly new co's), a small percentage of full office (mostly legacy co's) and a big plurality of hybrid companies where everyone is mandated to come to office on the same days of the week. I am seeing more and more SV companies taking that approach.

Started a poll here to get more data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868543

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Post by foobiekr »

closeparen wrote: post #263
ravenstine wrote: post #85

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There's arguments from both sides of the coin but, though I'm biased having worked remote for almost 5 years now, I think the remote-side usually wins the argument by simply being more reasonable. I see far fewer remote workers claiming that "everyone should work remote" and more in-office workers making sweeping claims that remote reduces creativity, reduces, productivity, or makes people lazy. The anti-remote folks…

> I see far fewer remote workers claiming that "everyone should work remote" The presence of a remote worker on a team means everyone is working remotely, in that all meetings have to be video conferences in order to include them. It's just that some might be working remotely from an office.

This is exactly the problem. You have one remote member and literally everyone has to work around it.

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Post by the_only_law »

treeman79 wrote: post #329
vvpan wrote: post #121

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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…

This is what crash of 2000 was like for me. Multiple calls a day from recruiters. Sometime around June or so, the calls Stopped. Just stopped. Six months later I was working at RadioShack. Along with a number of engineers with 10-20 years experience. Took me 3 years to get back into a tech job. This is starting to feel the same.

I was an idiot and held out for too long. I’ve been out of work for a very long time, much longer than six months. I never experienced a market like this, even when I was trying to enter the market as a teenager with no real experience it took me three months. Now I have six years of experience apparently worth nothing. I should have taken a on site role a long time ago, but I was trying to avoid moving. I figured my luck would turn around for the better at some point. Idiotic optimism.

Now my lease is up and I’m fucked. My savings have been beaten from month and months of attrition and emergency expenses, including somehow owing money on my taxes this year. The rental market is so bad where I am, with people asking more money for fucking rooms than some of the apartments out here, I assume because most of the apartments have 6+ month waiting lists.

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Post by voakbasda »

csbingel wrote: post #328
iamzamek wrote: post #307

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Hey, what do you think - how can we "repair" this process? I mean, what would be a perfect solution to not require photo ID verification video and get rid of scammers?

I'm pretty sure it's an EEO violation to request ID or a photo before hiring. "Similarly, employers should not ask for a photograph of an applicant. If needed for identification purposes, a photograph may be obtained after an offer of employment is made and accepted." https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices

Then how do Zoom meetings not violate this law? You’re literally receiving a stream of photos of the applicant before hiring them.

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Post by AlexITC »

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…

I have been on the other side, people wanting to hire me to be the front-door either take interviews or the front-door with customers, the last time I was offered $xx/h + 20% from each project's revenue.

Darknet dairies has an interesting episode about this: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/133/

It's a real problem which makes it harder for people like me that are legitimately working remotely. This has existed for a long time but it wasn't as popular because remote working was unpopular before the pandemic.

> Really frustrating because it's making us have to do silly things like require photo ID verification over video on the first screening call

Unfortunately, this wouldn't solve it, a person can join the calls and get someone else to do the work.

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Post by LamaOfRuin »

csbingel wrote: post #328
iamzamek wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, what do you think - how can we "repair" this process? I mean, what would be a perfect solution to not require photo ID verification video and get rid of scammers?

I'm pretty sure it's an EEO violation to request ID or a photo before hiring. "Similarly, employers should not ask for a photograph of an applicant. If needed for identification purposes, a photograph may be obtained after an offer of employment is made and accepted." https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices

This does not seem relevant when you're already on a video call. The prohibition on requesting photographs is to prevent otherwise unknown information about their race/gender/etc.
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