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Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by idempotent_ »

shalmanese wrote: post #81
geuis wrote: post #38

Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but…

I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty tr…

Presumably one does not apply with their Hacker News profile that's over a decade old but rather a resume / CV

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by CableNinja »

On the topic of getting hired, id like to take a moment to rant at the employers, and ask you HN folk to do something.

PLEASE stop applying to jobs that make you jump through stupid hoops or answer stupid questions that dont need to be asked on applications. Every person that applies and answers these questions are just helping to standardize their use on applications, and it needs to stop. Theres so many that i cant even think of a good example right now, but you know the questions im talking about.

Employers, please stop asking these stupid questions, and 100% double check what youre asking is actually allowed. Ive seen at least two places, recently, asking questions that im pretty sure could be considered discriminatory. Ive seen others asking stupid useless questions like "what would be your superpower" you know what mine would be? The power to make the hiring process not feel like a shell game filled with bullshit traps and gotchas.

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by mortallywounded »

geuis wrote: post #38

Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but…

Looks like you expose your git repo in your web root, rookie :)

geuis.com/.git/config

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by [deleted] »

CableNinja wrote: post #122

On the topic of getting hired, id like to take a moment to rant at the employers, and ask you HN folk to do something. PLEASE stop applying to jobs that make you jump through stupid hoops or answer stupid questions that dont need to be asked on applications. Every person that applies and answers these questions are just helping to standardize their use on applications, and it needs to stop. Theres so many that i cant…

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Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by mortallywounded »

shalmanese wrote: post #81
geuis wrote: post #38

Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but…

I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty tr…

The jsonip website has some odd behavior, if you add additional characters to the URL it looks like the server tries to run JSON.parse on the extra characters plus a payload. Wonder if there's a way to pollute the server or get remote code execution.

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by mortallywounded »

geuis wrote: post #38

Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but…

My two cents, your LinkedIn is pretty bare (~130 connections, few skills/words/fluff). If you want to play the LinkedIn game you need to get 500+ connections (connect with a bunch of recruiters to game the numbers).

Don't advertise you are looking for a job (recruiters don't like to hire people looking for a job, that means they can't find a job and are inferior to people already employed). Instead, frame yourself as employed and happy.

Message recruiters and let them know you're passively looking at opportunities in the market and wonder what they are looking for.

Beef up the LinkedIn with some recommendations, skills, etc.

Your personal site can use some updates.. get a headshot/basic whois/bio on it pointing to your LinkedIn/Github/Email and a rundown of some of your projects.

Ageism could be part of the problem as well. A clean shave/haircut/dye wouldn't hurt.

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by jmye »

tfigueroa wrote: post #56
jmye wrote: post #6

Seems like a lot of unicorn hunting out there, right now. At least for senior data leadership roles, I’ve hit a lot of JDs that were clearly written for one person (either internally, or the random Meta/Google/whatever layoff that this company is sure will take a 75% salary cut for). Networking has been really invaluable. ATS systems seem slightly more inscrutable than when I was looking two years ago (wonder if ther…

> Seems like a lot of unicorn hunting out there, right now. Agreed, and I feel this is happening across job families - JDs seem much more domain-specific, especially around ML/AI. I don’t remember it being like this. Yes, there is absolutely a distinction between someone working Eng in payments vs infra vs ML, but I remember those being nice-to-haves, not requisites.

Totally - and would add that a lot of jobs that clearly don’t need ML experience seem to want hardcore data scientists now.

Orgs that are still trying to put together their first functional data warehouse, or who haven’t even built an analytics environment yet, seem convinced that they need someone to come in and build models day one. It’s weird out there.

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by jcalvinowens »

It's been incredibly frustrating. I recently did a round of onsites for a staff level position at a big company you've heard of.

After the interviews, I was told I was going to be offered a lower level role instead. I met with the hiring manager and expressed disappointment, saying it felt like a step backwards from my previous job, and I wanted to understand the new lower level role in more detail

What followed was one of the most surreal conversations I've ever had: he assured me that I would have the exact same set of tech lead expectations and responsibilities we originally discussed, just without the staff level title or pay.

Obviously, I rejected the offer.

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by retrobox »

Poorly thus far. I’ve got stats from when I applied for jobs two years ago and it’s a very different picture. Previously: 19 applications and 4 solid offers.

Same number of applications this year. I’ve been ghosted, told my skills and experience don’t match salary expectations or level of seniority, and at times not made it past the initial application due to some short tenures on my CV.

I haven’t used any one specific strategy. I’ve been networking, reworking my CV to better present my experience, and building a small personal website to talk about some projects.

It’s a more competitive market for sure.

Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

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Post by DandyDev »

aarvi wrote: post #80

Not so great. Not a single call yet. This after having spent over a decade as CTO at a startup, built all products and teams from scratch. Dont know where I am going wrong. But.. hope is what makes the world go round!

Not many companies hire CTOs through regular channels, and it’s likely you’ll be seen as overqualified for lower rank jobs.

I think you can basically do 2 things: try to get into contact with executive head hunters or make it very clear on your resume and LinkedIn that despite your tenure as CTO you’re very much open to EM or IC engineering roles.

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