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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.
That may be true, but I think the internal company forums are generally not very junior.
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> 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?
Salaries with Canadian companies pale in comparison to U.S. salaries, with perhaps a few exceptions.
When the market was piping hot in early 2022 I was fielding a few offers and the highest a Canadian company got me (as someone with 8-9 YoE at the time) was 95K (USD). U.S. companies were offering in the range of 120K-150K.
Although I made a huge mistake and took a counteroffer at a lower salary from the company I already worked with, which came with a significant retention bonus (and verbal promise of stock + additional bonuses which never materialized). Now I'm making about 70K USD as a lead.
Which is probably more than I'd get from a Canada-based company right now to be fair.
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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…
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…
However, these people are local. They almost certainly want you in-person at least some amount of the time.
And, while I can't say that ageism isn't a factor, I can tell you that the users groups tend to be weighted toward the greybeards.
I do think that the "remote work" thing is a bit of disadvantage for we greybeards. The value of having someone around who is experienced is having a colleague that you can interact with in casual context.
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> Which is why we need a union, despite what libertarian fetishist tech bros think they are above Please make your substantive points without snark or name-calling. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . Edit: it's not good to stealth-edit your comments after the fact, especially when doing so deprives replies of their original meaning. If you're going to make an edit that…
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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…
> Nobody's telling you not to drive to an office every day. reminds me of this meme that was going around Facebook during the last US election. It was an image of a line at a store like Target. The caption was something like "you stand in line at the store, you can stand in line to vote." You know, one of those absolutely stupid republican anti-mail-in-voting things. They apparently forgot that Amazon, one of the lar…
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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…
High growth companies had a hiccup certainly, but there are still more open positions than there are candidates.
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Requiring that an applicant is legally authorized to work in the US is allowed. Requiring that they be a US citizen is not. https://www.eeoc.gov/pre-employment-inquiries-and-citizenshi...
As a non US citizen this has always confused me. Does this mean that to get the job I need to be authorised to work in the US? Or that I will need to be authorised once I get the job? Can I apply in hopes of moving to the US? Or in which situation would a non citizen be authorised to work?
> An employer has no legal obligation to commence an immigration case. ... The employer may lawfully reject the job applicant because, if hired, that individual will ask the employer to take steps before the federal government to obtain authorization to employ him (an employment-based immigration case).
In other words, if you are not currently legally authorized to work in the US, the employer has no obligation to sponsor you for work authorization, and can simply reject you.
> This situation differs from one in which a job applicant has temporary work authorization that is independent of the employer and the applicant does not ask the employer to take on the legal obligation of an immigration case in order to employ him. The employer should not reject the job applicant simply because he has temporary work authorization.
On the other hand, a non-citizen with a green card, EAD, etc. is protected, and refusing to hire because of those documents is illegal.
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> I was able to move closer to my church community, so my "human interaction" need is being fulfilled richer than ever now. This is what the "but you need human interaction" return-to-office crowd doesn't understand. WFH !== Being alone WFH means surrounding yourself with the people you choose to be around. Whether that's your church community, fellow hobbyists, intramural sports teams, the local co-working space, et…
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the return-to-office crowd, like myself, wants. Work relationships and personal relationships serve entirely different purposes for me. I don't want to be working longer hours, or make work a larger part of my life. I don't particularly care if I have "real" friendships with my colleagues outside of work. I have plenty of friends and family that I already have trouble ju…
Meta: I want us to appreciate that total number of job postings on HN have been steadily falling since 2018 [1] with what appears to be an outlier jump in 2021 (post-pandemic bubble). That seems pretty important... Am I missing some big piece of context here that would make my analysis wrong? https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1683877057959272449
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.
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> 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.