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Re: 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

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Post by flutas »

fasteddie31003 wrote: post #34
nico wrote: post #26

This is great, thank you for putting it together > More and more jobs are looking for senior and management level positions. It is increasing tough to be an entry level job applicant in tech On top of this, at least in my recent experience, it seems like companies not only want more senior applicants, they are also a lot more picky about their experience and want them to know their whole tech stack, have a ton of pra…

I think it is a lot harder for new Software Engineers to get into the field today. I was a self-taught engineer when I got into the field 10 years ago. Now I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 100 company. But now I'm hearing stories that companies are not even looking at self-taught Software Engineers.

> But now I'm hearing stories that companies are not even looking at self-taught Software Engineers.

Same boat for me down to self taught and entry 10 years ago, I just avoided the management path.

I've had companies flat out reject me (for mid level roles) due to not having a SWE degree, even though I literally have 10+ years of professional experience in the area they're hiring for. I can only imagine self taught and no degree would get laughed out of the room most of the time now unfortunately.

Re: 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

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Post by monero-xmr »

MattGaiser wrote: post #25
monero-xmr wrote: post #13

Crypto and blockchain employment is rapidly expanding but no one posts on HN regarding crypto companies. The industry knows “The Orange Site” is not where you want to find candidates, or good conversation for that matter.

LinkedIn and random recruiter spam about crypto have also dried up in my anecdotal experience, so where are they hiring?

I would do some research on the industry, and then go direct to their websites and apply. You could also go to top tier VCs, look at their portfolio companies, then apply direct, such as:

https://www.dragonfly.xyz/#portfolio

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Post by MattGaiser »

dbcurtis wrote: post #38
MattGaiser wrote: post #9

> The rise of "Senior" and the decline of "Intern" I don't know anyone who has anything positive to say about hiring juniors and between it getting far harder to wade through the avalanche of juniors with Coursera certs and AI making the easier work no longer require a human, I don't see a great future for them. Even in my first job 4 years ago, the senior manager there said in a meeting "we don't hire junior enginee…

I wonder how much of that is basic economics? In a hot market, juniors get hired to fill a role with the idea that OJT will bring them up to speed soon enough to be better than an empty chair. When there are plenty of applicants, companies can be more selective. My advice to new grads: Internships!!! Think ahead and use a couple summers to prove yourself to one or two potential employers. Where I work, a lot of our N…

Internships are why new grad job ads can say 1+ years of experience or even 2+ years.

The best candidates have that from summer internships + maybe a year-long internship (we called it a professional year at my school) or co-op.

Re: 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

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Post by fasteddie31003 »

nico wrote: post #40

Did this story get flagged or something? With the amount of votes it has, it should be at the top of the front page, but it's now around halfway through the second page (position 50+ aprox) @dang what happened?

Yea it was pretty high up and then all the sudden page 3.

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Post by monero-xmr »

sleepingreset wrote: post #39
wanderingstan wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m a ways out of that world now, but my colleagues still in it say that twitter and discord (and getting invited to the “right” private servers) are where jobs are found for blockchain.

... and how might one find the "right" places for that. lol. i just code holed up like a rat haven't really joined communities for it but yk a man's gotta eat

Look into Layer2 solutions like optimism and arbitrum. Coinbase created their own chain called “Base” built on the OP stack. Many projects are building on these layers and looking for devs. Good luck!

Re: 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

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Post by mooreds »

ericmcer wrote: post #33
pixelmonkey wrote: post #10

Small correction: the post says "2019 pandemic," but the pandemic was actually in early 2020. "COVID-19" is so named because it is traced back to a first case in China in December 2019. WHO declared it a global emergency on January 30, 2020 which is about when Western press started taking it more seriously. WHO announced "COVID-19" as the name of the new disease, following some international naming guidelines, on Feb…

That is super interesting because I do not recall hearing about it or taking it seriously until early March 2020. It really points to how USA centric our news is that there was a global health emergency declared in January, but we were so hyper focused on the upcoming election and Trumps antics that it was barely making the news. Or it was being purposely kept under wraps? It seems like something that should have bee…

> That is super interesting because I do not recall hearing about it or taking it seriously until early March 2020.

I had a co-worker with family in China at the time and remember asking her about whether they were okay. But I also planned a family vacation out of the country for March 2020, which shows I didn't fully understand the ramifications.

Re: 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

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Post by pixelmonkey »

ericmcer wrote: post #33
pixelmonkey wrote: post #10

Small correction: the post says "2019 pandemic," but the pandemic was actually in early 2020. "COVID-19" is so named because it is traced back to a first case in China in December 2019. WHO declared it a global emergency on January 30, 2020 which is about when Western press started taking it more seriously. WHO announced "COVID-19" as the name of the new disease, following some international naming guidelines, on Feb…

That is super interesting because I do not recall hearing about it or taking it seriously until early March 2020. It really points to how USA centric our news is that there was a global health emergency declared in January, but we were so hyper focused on the upcoming election and Trumps antics that it was barely making the news. Or it was being purposely kept under wraps? It seems like something that should have bee…

I have family in Italy and they were sending me e-mail warnings about the coming lock-downs in February 2020. (I just checked my GMail records to confirm.) Because by then Italy was already locking down. It was declared an emergency in Italy shortly after the WHO declaration and especially due to 2 confirmed cases found in Rome. You can read about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Italy

Re: 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

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Post by dabber »

mikehollinger wrote: post #12

Semi-related - I continue to be amused by the number of people that blindly-copy things without understanding what's what. I've seen / heard people refer to LLMs for Vision, which are certainly a thing, but not always what people mean or intend. And my favorite still is the job posting and experts that refer to "R, Python, SLQ, etc" elsewhere. [1] This seems to be a copy-paste off of GlassDoor which has -still- not b…

That's hilarious. I found the DDG results to be more illustrative of your point though:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22R%2C+Python%2C+SLQ%2C+etc%22&ia...

Re: 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends

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Post by sirspacey »

nico wrote: post #40

Did this story get flagged or something? With the amount of votes it has, it should be at the top of the front page, but it's now around halfway through the second page (position 50+ aprox) @dang what happened?

When comments are more than upvotes a front paste post gets auto-demoted.

Remember to upvote!

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Post by 93po »

nico wrote: post #40

Did this story get flagged or something? With the amount of votes it has, it should be at the top of the front page, but it's now around halfway through the second page (position 50+ aprox) @dang what happened?

shout out to hckrnews.com for being a much better front page
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