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Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
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Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#12Its even worse than dot bomb (2000-2004) however is it all github copilot eating these jobs? I think some, but also with the success with remote work I image most roles were simply sent out of the US, and could be an outsourced team with extra help from copilot and other tools.
> however is it all github copilot eating these jobs?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, and it's wild you think this might be the case.
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#13It is taking a while for me. Seemingly lots of jobs out there and I have been interviewing constantly. I've had four final stage interviews and rejected for all of them. I have more screeners lined up, and one promising prospect that is taking a long time. I'm told that everyone is at a summit which is what is slowing down the process. I get a lot of 3rd party recruiters that seem to follow a similar MO: the recruite…
>I get a lot of 3rd party recruiters that seem to follow a similar: the recruiters are all people with south Asian names, calling from US numbers (I'm in Canada), with a vague job description, they want to hire me hourly, and they are cagey about the company that they are hiring me for. They ask for my CV, my work status, and what "project" I was on.
I've heard of scams where fake recruiters use real peoples' names and résumés to get hired at remote jobs, then substitute in their own Indian or other non-American worker.
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#14A counter balance: Mine has been fine. I spent 6 years at Meta and was laid off. I found a better paying position and started last month. I interviewed everywhere. Google was a tough slog, I had 3 recruiters laid off while I was team matching. I'm on my 4th recruiter there, but I don't think they can match my current TC and I very much enjoy my current job.
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Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#16Its even worse than dot bomb (2000-2004) however is it all github copilot eating these jobs? I think some, but also with the success with remote work I image most roles were simply sent out of the US, and could be an outsourced team with extra help from copilot and other tools.
Basically I went back to school to be a pharmacy tech because it seems like a hopeless job market after looking hopelessly for 18 months even after having survived as a web developer since 1995.
There's also ageism at play
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#17It's pretty bad. Q1 and Q2 2022 were better than this.
Doesn’t budget open up more in Q1 as opposed to Q4? Isn’t Q4 just generally a bad time to be looking, with upcoming holidays, at least in the US?
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#18much slower than when I got laid off in 2022 that's for sure. But I'm not changing much of my strategies and I was in fact pickier.
got laid off again in May and took a break until September, which of course seemed to be the worst time for my industry. calls were extremely slow in September but I still got a few. got a more typical recruiter reach out in October. More early rejections than last time (i.e. past a recruiter call but not past the first team call), but IDK if that's more on my roles (I am being pickier than last time) or the current state.
I did get a LOT more auto rejects than before. I feel like I applied to more roles this time despite a narrower selection, so I don't know if that's simply a more representative result compared to last year or not.
I seem close to an offer I'll take but I have 3 other interviews to go for if it falls through. so, hopefully it ends with 2 months of job searching, which is about as good as last time. I took a break since I got laid off twice in 12 months and didn't want to rush to a new role like last time, but I probably would have accelerated my options if I knew it would get this bad this quickly.
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#19It's pretty bad. Q1 and Q2 2022 were better than this.
Well yeah, that was the tail end of the crazy times. I have seen an uptick in recruiter messages since August-ish tho
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#20I just can't find anything as a DevOps/SRE. I had only a few technical interviews over the past 3 months, didn't pay enough attention to details when fixing a broken python program during a live coding interview, not sure why I was rejected in another case. Other than that, I can't get past HR interview and even getting to that point is difficult, in most cases my job application are not even answered with a rejection.
Surviving only thanks to a food pantry and a house I bought for 30k$ in East Cleveland. Doing some upwork and garden work so that I can pay for utilities and taxes.