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Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by w4ffl35 »

handzhiev wrote: post #124
derektank wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why, exactly? These companies have foreign customers, it seems reasonable to expect that they would also want to have foreign employees that can speak the language, work in the same time zone, etc. And the demand for those employees is unlikely to be perfectly commensurate with demand for US based employees at all times. Seems like a ban would be pretty destructive, even if some of this hiring is an attempt at offsho…

If such a ban is in power, many companies will either close or move abroad. It's as simple as that. I agree, it will be totally destructive.

So be it.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by obscurette »

vbi8iBEX wrote: post #9
nicbou wrote: post #3

I’m self-employed so I don’t have personal experience, but all around me (in Berlin) people are struggling to find work. I have more unemployed friends than ever and they stay unemployed for longer than ever. Others are afraid to risk their job in any way. Employers got bolder in their demands and English-speaking workers are fighting for scraps. The UX industry is absolutely cutthroat right now. I work in immigratio…

Sounds like its a problem everywhere, not just the states.

In Europe it's a little bit different though in my opinion. Here most of industries have been just regulated to death, a money is leaving and things fall apart like house of cards. And EU thinks that the answer is ... more regulations.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by Dig1t »

I work at Apple and we have a policy (new in 2024) where we are not allowed to make an offer for a manager position to a candidate unless we have interviewed a PoC or a woman for the roll. The stated goal for this policy is “diverse managers hire diverse teams”. So right off the bat we are discriminating based on race and gender.

Look at the published diversity data on the Apple website, the company is now 50% Asian in North America (they stopped publishing the data after 2022 but internally that’s the number now), because it’s cheaper to hire H1B’s and they can’t leave the company.

It’s not surprising that Americans are having trouble finding jobs right now, they are being squeezed by both DEI and cheap labor from abroad.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by nickff »

w4ffl35 wrote: post #133
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should it be illegal for American companies to operate abroad when they have international revenue streams?

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There are a lot of companies; Americans have a spectrum of views, as do corporations. In addition, both individuals and corporations are capable of talking out of both sides of their mouth (or just plain lying).

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by ajmurmann »

pmarreck wrote: post #27

Wherever there is difficulty, there is also opportunity. I think the major thing stopping people from just going their own way is healthcare coverage. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I wonder if I can hack a business model that somehow provides healthcare but also gathers together sourced projects, and freelancers to bid on building them, while also getting healthcare. (And if you opt out of healthcare, you can take the d…

I've been taking some time off to learn, travel and work on my own projects. Going in I was very worried about healthcare. It turned out cheaper than expected. What worried me more is that I want able to get disability insurance at all.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by pickpuck »

throwawayhn2024 wrote: post #73

I was let go from my last job. Also no CS degree. Had no LinkedIn either (deleted years ago). Had to create a resume from scratch. The only thing I had was about a decade of experience. I started by creating a resume and LinkedIn and aggressively optimized both as much as possible. Using a ATS checker I found online, I got a score of 96 for my resume after numerous changes (29 changes after a few weeks). I started ap…

Can you link to the ATS checker please?

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by thatcat »

krapp wrote: post #102
w4ffl35 wrote: post #97

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On what basis? There is no right to employment in the US Constitution, and companies are simply practicing good capitalism by purchasing the most effective workforce at the lowest cost from a global labor pool. If you want to live in a society where your life has value beyond that which a market rapidly converging on slave labor and AI can extract from you, I guess maybe move to a country where "socialism" isn't a di…

There is no right to globalism in the constitution either: any and all of those behaviors can and should be regulated if it is in the best interest of the US citizens.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by BinaryMachine »

You're definitely not alone. (I am glad you're writing this because I thought I was alone here as well)

I am currently applying to ~15 jobs a day starting late Sep till now mostly on Linkedin. I know it might not be the best time to look due to holidays. When wake up the next day finding 3-5 "decided not to move forward" So then I think theres something wrong with my resume? So I update it a little each day, its an unless cycle I have probability done this 50+ times now? Also seeing 100+ job applicants even after the job posting has been up for only a few hours.

Also approaching 2 decades of experience, also white American (they always ask on applying). I have a bachelors degree but its in Interactive Media taught myself everything else.

I am one month away to moving back home with my brother because I can only afford another one month rent on Credit Card until its maxed out.

Free time I just spend it learning learning learning, and an hour gym routine helps with stress. I try not to think about the situation that I am in or the job market.

All we can do is try our best everyday, theres only so much we can do and stressing out is the worst thing for the mind/body.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by nickff »

betaby wrote: post #88

Low pay offers. In Montreal there are plenty of offers paying ~90k CAD/year ( 62k USD/year ) for 15+ years of experience. There are lot of job listings in Montreal, and those positions are real. Problem is that the pay makes those positions undesirable. The second problem is that no one hires junior developers. My friend's kid finishing CS studies in May 2025 and prospect for jobs are not good.

One problem with hiring juniors (from an employer perspective) is that they take a while to get trained up, then leave after 1-3 years, meaning that they require investment which never gets paid back. You can argue that the company should give them raises to keep them, but it goes against the zeitgeist (so it’s tough), and also means that there’s no advantage to hiring juniors.

This seems like a stable (though undesirable) equilibrium, and I do not have a solution.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by w4ffl35 »

nickff wrote: post #144
w4ffl35 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There are a lot of companies; Americans have a spectrum of views, as do corporations. In addition, both individuals and corporations are capable of talking out of both sides of their mouth (or just plain lying).

Yes there are a lot of companies, and yes people and companies can lie. I'm not really sure how this negates what I said or my view on the matter. Globalization is the antithesis of the America First movement.
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