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Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?
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#12Software developer who is Overemployed here. No issues landing offers fairly regularly. I never stop interviewing as I don’t want to be out of practice so I get about 1 offer a month. Definitely slower, but far from dead.
Let me know if you want to outsource!
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#13I'm based in the EU as a fullstack developer and nothing changed much, I'm hearing that there's a crisis on the US market but it's not reaching the EU yet or it's so small that it's not visible to me.
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#15Software developer who is Overemployed here. No issues landing offers fairly regularly. I never stop interviewing as I don’t want to be out of practice so I get about 1 offer a month. Definitely slower, but far from dead.
So you are interviewing just for practice and rejecting all the offers? Not afraid to get on some kind of black list because of that behavior?
No, the poster is "overemployed". That's when people commit fraud against their employers by accepting multiple concurrent full time salaried positions and then phoning in their jobs until they're fired or the employer folds.
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#16Do they have CS degrees?
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#17There was a deleted comment saying that it helps if you learn your domain and bring skills/knowledge aside from just programming. I agree, although I think it also helps if you have a non-CS background relevant to this sort of thing, as it implies some base level of knowledge too. I've met people that have been in one domain for a long time but still don't understand it, so it's not a given.
My background is in Physics but I've worked on software in the Engineering industry now for 10 years nearly. My most recent project at work drew on maths I used in my doctorate (various bits of Fourier analysis applied to mechanical systems). Not that someone who hadn't got my background couldn't do it but I could jump on that project and finish it in 2 months and I doubt anyone else in my team could have picked it up and done it in less than 6-9 months just because of the research and needing to understand the maths + algorithms.
I regularly get contacted by companies working in the same or adjacent domains, whereas some of my more 'pure' software friends are hearing nothing at the moment.
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#18After I quit my last job, I ended up starting my own thing - wasn't ready to go through the hassle of interviewing again.
This is the way. Software devs can make so much money and have so much more control over their lives, instead of grinding FAANG.
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#19Are programmers being replaced by ChatGPT finally?
There’s no way you can replace competent programmers with ChatGPT. I still have to check the output all the time and it’s often wrong or just doesn’t even know what I’m asking about.
But many people are claiming that chatgpt increases their productivity by 50-100%. Doesn't it mean we need less programmers now?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you are interviewing just for practice and rejecting all the offers? Not afraid to get on some kind of black list because of that behavior?
No, the poster is "overemployed". That's when people commit fraud against their employers by accepting multiple concurrent full time salaried positions and then phoning in their jobs until they're fired or the employer folds.
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