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

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Post by bruce511 »

iExploder wrote: post #188
m_ke wrote: post #86

It's not just you. I have an Ivy league degree, worked in deep learning since alexnet at a leading startup in the space, was a CTO of a startup that got acquired and have referrals from very senior people at the top FANG companies and still struggled to get interviews. I also have research scientist friends with Neurips papers, ones that solved long standing open math problems and even they are struggling to get hire…

Hiring a lot in Poland and from what I know paying peanuts compared to US salaries, but still above the market rate in Europe, mainly because market rate for engineers in EU is nothing to write home about. It sucks for you guys, but its just the new reality. Engineering is dead end career unless you are top 10%, move on to management, or money doesnt play a role, but at that point you might as well go duck farming or…

It turns out that work-remotely can be done by non-US based workers for a fraction of the cost of US workers.

So those lobbying for work-from-home, well, this is the natural endpoint of that.

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

vbi8iBEX wrote: post #136
bdangubic wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

globalization mate, globalization… there will never be a law in the US of A that prevents companies from finding cheap labor… more than a quarter (and ever growing) SWEs are no longer “on shore”

I am anti-globalization, and pro-America first.

Success of the US is largely a product of globalization and geography. The US would be nowhere close to where it is now without largely unrestricted capitalism and a global consumer base. It has always been like that, from being a colony, through making money on products of slavery, being industrial base for lots of the world in 20th century and now being the digital world capital.

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

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Post by bdangubic »

vbi8iBEX wrote: post #136
bdangubic wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

globalization mate, globalization… there will never be a law in the US of A that prevents companies from finding cheap labor… more than a quarter (and ever growing) SWEs are no longer “on shore”

I am anti-globalization, and pro-America first.

that is an oxymoron - america has been the main driver of globalization without a distant second. the “america first” is political garbage used to rile up rural america, it only exists in context “we’ll let american companies do whatever is necessary so that we keep being “global leader” …)

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

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Post by layer8 »

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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Not sure what TOS you are referring to, but regarding downvotes maybe you should read the top comment on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673613

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Post by skillissuz »

irvingprime wrote: post #209

The longest period of unemployment I've ever experienced ended about 6 months ago. I was unemployed for 11 months. The company that finally hired me was intentionally targeting people with lots of experience. I have that. They also pay less than I used to make but I took it because I needed a job. Previous to that period of unemployment, my resume tended to get noticed. I got interviews from 3 applications out of 5.…

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Post by baal80spam »

Dig1t wrote: post #143

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…

Why is this downvoted? The man is stating a fact!

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Post by gosub100 »

scottiescottie wrote: post #77
gosub100 wrote: post #56

> Have you been fired in favor of foreign workers? 1) I work at a large company everyone in the US has heard of. When I walk in the public areas of the company or at lunch, it looks like we are based in Mumbai. There is no "diversity", it's one country in particular, which is India. (Funnily enough, this demographic isn't reflected in management) 2) I overheard the 4th level (above me) manager complaining to another…

Do any of your real life friends accuse you of racism? Do you find that Indian managers hire their own? I'm assuming you're not Indian. I applied to FedEx affiliated company for SWE, and everyone except upper management was Indian. I was shocked.

I haven't been accused of being racist by anyone I know (especially not for pointing out a lack of diversity). I haven't experienced any Indian managers hiring their own, but I've only had one Indian manager. That isn't really a concern for me; small amounts of prejudice are to be expected, and if they grow to large-enough proportions they can be proven in court and adjudicated. What concerns me is a systemic trend to cut off US citizens' ability to move up economically.

Incidentally, there is a completely orthogonal concern that almost nobody is aware of: that Indian children are essentially being forced to study tech or medicine in order to get high-paying jobs in the west. This essentially erases their culture and robs the children of any freedom of identity. From single-digit ages they are being forced (under threat of discipline) to provide economic security for their parents. That is sickening.

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Post by vbi8iBEX »

bdangubic wrote: post #213
vbi8iBEX wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am anti-globalization, and pro-America first.

that is an oxymoron - america has been the main driver of globalization without a distant second. the “america first” is political garbage used to rile up rural america, it only exists in context “we’ll let american companies do whatever is necessary so that we keep being “global leader” …)

American leaders have been the drivers of lots of terrible things that I disagree with. I'm still anti globalization and pro-America first which in the context of this thread translates to hiring American workers over foreigners when there is clearly no shortage of American workers.

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Post by 0xfaded »

thw09j9m wrote: post #113

My thoughts from ~ 6 weeks ago: >> This is the toughest market I've ever seen. I easily made it to on-sites at FAANG a few years ago and now I'm getting resume rejected by no-name startups (and FAANG). The bar has also been raised significantly. I had an interview recently where I solved the algorithm question very quickly, but didn't refactor/clean up my code perfectly and was rejected. I've since landed one decent…

> the sys design interview was about an obscure optimization problem that I specialized in for years - though I didn't let on that fact

Honestly I feel this situation is an invitation/opportunity to show your depth. I had a similar experience where I was asked to implement a box filter, which I did naively, and then asked to do it the clever way.

I remembered about Haar classifiers https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/db/d28/tutorial_cascade_classifi... which solve the same problem, and I was familiar with the OpenCV implementation. I mentioned this and started to write code, but at that point the interviewer was much more interested about why I knew about some obscure old-school opencv method than finishing the coding exercise.

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Post by feznyng »

Question for those who lived through it: is this sense that not only is the market over but that it’s permanently over a point of discussion during the dot com crash or 2008? I’ve experienced the former personally but the idea that it’s never going to get better is a little harder to swallow, although that may be pure cope.
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