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Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by phendrenad2 »

EchoChamberMan wrote: post #97
TradingPlaces wrote: post #81

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Just putting it out there for people, who don’t seem to know this is happening from the frequent postings like this. Also, all large companies are tech companies and finance companies now. Walmart has 1695 openings with the word “software” in the title. https://careers.walmart.com/results?q=software&page=1&sort=r...

Tragically the problem is not lack of roles, it's a lack of hiring managers able or willing to fill them. No one wants to risk a visible failure, so they take no risks at all... which leads us to the current situation of 1600 unfilled software dev roles at walmart.

Well yes and no. Some companies are actually hiring, but distinguishing them from the companies that aren't hiring (but have 1,000+ software jobs up on LinkedIn) is impossible.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by effingwewt »

jacob_rezi wrote: post #139
effingwewt wrote: post #131

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Or you could pretend this is a forum for discussion and not yiur advertising space and answer the questions directly rather than spamming your email.

Im happy to talk about anything

Then go back and answer the questions to which you copy and paste- spammed your email all over this thread.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by Fnoord »

programjames wrote: post #133
Fnoord wrote: post #73

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Signaling is already shit with mighty high requirements which are BS like 'need 5 years of experience in the field' for a junior position. Everyone got bills to pay, can't blame anyone for lying. If you put ridiculously high expectations, this is what you get. Go full ham on little white lies. Exaggerate like they exaggerate about how fun the environment is to work in. If it were truly a superb place, the position wa…

The reason the requirements are so high is because everyone is lying. The solution isn't to lie more, it's to stop lying altogether and punish defectors. For example, putting people who say, "go full ham on little white lies," on a do-not-hire list.

I wrote white lies, then I wrote about exaggerating, and I said I cannot blame anyone for lying. You're on about lying. There is a difference. White lies are commonly made every day, while flat out lying is more rare. I'm not a proponent of big lies because they're easily found out, and possibly against the law. But little white lies? People get away with that all the time.

If you want to go against the flow and change the world, sure, be honest all the time. Unfortunately, my experience is that on short-term (with regards to the issue at hand) you're better off with white lies. Yes, because 'everyone does it'. Do I like that? No, I don't, but it is what it is.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by sebestindragos »

The job market is terrible right now, a lot of people competings for few job openings. My wife has also been looking for a junior FE role for almost a year and still no luck. You just have to push through, keep applying to as many jobs as you can find, it’s a numbers game in the end. I’m actually building a tool that can scrape job listings from ~15 sites. If it finds anything new then it sends a notification so that you can apply as soon as possible. If anyone wants to give it a try https://first2apply.com/

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by programjames »

Fnoord wrote: post #143
programjames wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason the requirements are so high is because everyone is lying. The solution isn't to lie more, it's to stop lying altogether and punish defectors. For example, putting people who say, "go full ham on little white lies," on a do-not-hire list.

I wrote white lies, then I wrote about exaggerating, and I said I cannot blame anyone for lying. You're on about lying. There is a difference. White lies are commonly made every day, while flat out lying is more rare. I'm not a proponent of big lies because they're easily found out, and possibly against the law. But little white lies? People get away with that all the time. If you want to go against the flow and chan…

I don't think "everyone's doing it" or "it's costly to go against the flow" makes something right, just painful. We can acknowledge something is wrong without deciding it's worth the pain to fight.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by collyw »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #103

The tech job market is indeed brutal right now. Until recently I was in the same boat as you, applying for lots of jobs and hearing nothing back. For context, I am an early graybeard, I've been coding since the late 1990s. Until ~2020 I never had trouble finding a job--then it suddenly went from falling off a log to nigh impossible. Rather than repeat some of the advice already given, I suggest you cultivate at least…

Where do you find Perl jobs? Is there a market rewriting them to something more modern like Python?

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by collyw »

loginx wrote: post #27

If you haven't already, set up a profile on upwork. The barrier to entry is a lot lower on short term projects, so you are more likely to find some work to keep your finances from depleting too quickly. It will also give you a boost of confidence, an opportunity to build social proof about your work, and it may even end up scoring you a longer term engagement. Good luck!

I tried that the other day. Says my email address exists when I try to sign up. Then it says it doesn't when I try to log in / reset password.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

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Post by ayewo »

effingwewt wrote: post #142
jacob_rezi wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im happy to talk about anything

Then go back and answer the questions to which you copy and paste- spammed your email all over this thread.

Your tone is unnecessarily confrontational to Jacob. He's only trying to help job seekers.

FWIW, I emailed him and he replied within a few hours on what I needed to do to redeem his offer.

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