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Post by acuozzo »

esafak wrote: post #225
acuozzo wrote: post #161

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> I prefer in office but I don’t see how that’s possible with a family. I don't see how WFH is possible with a family. My children (9, 6, and 4) spend nearly the whole day trying to guilt me into playing with them when I telework. > How would you afford a large enough house in a city center? Work in an industry which exists largely outside of the cities. Defense, for instance. > And otherwise how do you justify two h…

> My children (9, 6, and 4) spend nearly the whole day... Are they home schooled? Most schools are contemporaneous with working hours to prevent this very problem.

They're not, but it's the summer right now, so they're home.

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Post by solarmist »

shmatt wrote: post #77
yieldcrv wrote: post #68

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in my experience, the process is the same at any salary or compensation package it isnt “easier” to get an offer at lower ranges, those companies think they are taking a risk with their comp ranges too

It is significantly easier to get a $100k offer than a $600k one as a senior software engineer. Companies who offer lower pay fully understand they aren't poaching anyone from Meta or Netflix any time soon, and lower their bar in terms of how hard the interview is In other words getting an offer for "tech in a non-tech company" is pretty easy. Getting the Meta offer in 1-shot of 6 back to back interviews, not so much

The bar may be lower but their risk aversion is just as high, so they're also doing 7 round interviews where a single 'meh' ends the process.

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Post by the_only_law »

Aurornis wrote: post #89
tayo42 wrote: post #60

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Companies are being cheap. Software engineers are only providing 200k dollars worth of value? I find that hard to believe.

Compensation isn't proportional to the value you produce. It never was. The hiring market is a market. Prices in a market are set by supply and demand. The value you produce only sets an upper limit on your compensation because companies don't want to lose money by employing people.

What kills me is seeing ads for boot camps talking about “tech jobs are booming in [your area]”. Yet I’ve had the fewest number of recruiter contact in my career ever, including when I was trying to break into the industry.

Not that I don’t expect the industry to be full of liars at this point, but it still losses me off when I see them.

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Post by DamnInteresting »

vvpan wrote: post #338
DamnInteresting wrote: post #335

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I've been in the business for almost 20 years. I've been hired for positions where I don't even code in the required language, and the employer depends on me to learn it on the go. Until recently I've never had trouble securing a job. But I've been on the market now for about 2 years. I often can't even score an interview, even for jobs that exactly match my qualifications. I'm over 40, so I must assume ageism is a f…

I was about to consider an interview coach or just somebody to look at who I am, my resume, online presence and all that and give me very honest feedback. I thought that what I am lacking is a good idea of who I am and I how I present myself. Have you tried anything like that?

I have not yet employed an interview coach, but I suspect it would be helpful to have a frank evaluation. I have a pretty large online presence, perhaps it is negatively affecting my opportunities in ways that I do not see. Hmm.

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Post by cj »

jmuguy wrote: post #278
throitallaway wrote: post #274

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I don't know about residency, but we get tons of applicants that know nothing about what's on their resume. If you get them into an interview they try to talk around your questions in generalities. There are also a few "job parking" companies that we've identified. I'm convinced that these companies aren't real (their websites are generic fluff and the applicants that we've talked to don't know anything.) If anyone h…

Can you link to an example of one of these companies. We're getting ready to start hiring again and I'm kind of worried about this.

BlueWillow.ai - the developer claims to have been a full time employee since 2021, but the company doesn't appear in marketing databases until March 2023, and the LinkedIn page has posts but nothing earlier than March.

On the phone with the candidate, his ID "was at his brother's house". He also joined the call with the name "Senior Dev" rather than a real name. I asked him why he used a pseudonym, and he mumbled something I couldn't understand.

I politely said thanks for your time, but it's not a good fit.

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Post by AlexITC »

sigstoat wrote: post #315
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 did some contracting for a place that i think hired one of these guys. in his case i think he more or less knew what he was doing, and showed up on calls, but delegated the work to some other people. we’d hear people in the background of his audio discussing things really oddly similar to tasks he’d been assigned and had outstanding. he was putting in (bad) PRs at all hours of day and night, and never had any recol…

That's a reason to keep doing it, 6 months of income is a considerable amount.

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Post by solarmist »

warning26 wrote: post #282
ryanSrich wrote: post #160

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> The number of people who actually like going to the office (either part or full time) is far higher than you'd expect from reading Reddit and Hacker News. I think most people like an office setting. Even remote work proponents like myself enjoy the office every now and then. The problem is really two things. 1.) The commute is brutal. If you live in any decent sized city and have a family, it's likely that you are…

> 1.) The commute is brutal. If you live in any decent sized city and have a family, it's likely that you are far enough away from the office that you have to drive 30+ minutes in pretty horrendous traffic. This is fundamentally a problem with urban design, not with in-office work.

No disagreement, but it's also not going away any time soon.

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Post by solarmist »

declan_roberts wrote: post #201
korpsey wrote: post #4

I hope this trend is here to stay, I cannot even imagine of going to an office in a daily basis anymore

Same! And what leverage do they truly have against us who moved away with eyes open? My mortgage is now $2k a month, about half of bay area rent. I'm more likely to try and get a $15/hr job with benefits here locally than haul my family back to the bay area.

Sadly I'm feeling the same. I loved my coworkers and the Bay Area, but it's just too expensive to be worth it.

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Post by solarmist »

rjbwork wrote: post #183
MoSattler wrote: post #141

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Anecdotally, I've heard from HR professionals that posting on Hacker News isn't a particularly effective method for attracting candidates. Perhaps this could be the reason.

Yeah my company has posted a couple of times and despite saying US only, we only got people from SEA and Eastern Europe...so we stopped posting.

Does the location it's posted really affect that significantly? Isn't it similar to any job board?

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Post by bozhark »

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…

Who’s doing the IDverify startup?
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