Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by einsteinx2 » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:45 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #31

w4ffl35 wrote: post #29

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How old are you? I'm curious about demographics

32 - interviewed only for senior IC positions in hybrid and remote roles. Also do want to nuance, I applied to many more positions than I ended up getting interviews for. The only guaranteed way for the interview stage was through referrals.

I found this was the same for me in the middle of the pandemic hiring boom too. I sent off a dozen resumes and didn’t hear back from any of them, one post for me on the YC alumni forum and I had a whole week of interviews lined up immediately and one referral to another company which landed me an interview as well and ultimately an offer I ended up accepting.

I never found cold applying to be particularly useful, even during the best hiring times, so I always read these accounts of how bad the market is because someone sent their resume to X number of companies to be a bit useless in judging the market as in my experience that never really worked.

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

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Post by rukuu001 » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:45 PM UTC

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.

Same in Australia. I’m at a startup involved with placing people on digital projects.

I see a lot of amazing people struggling in the market right now. This is mirrored by a general slowdown in actual project spend by businesses.

Locally, there has been a very very minor uptick in activity prior to Christmas which is a historically weird time for that to happen, so I’m slightly optimistic for the new year.

But the last 12 months have been very tough.

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

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Post by w4ffl35 » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:45 PM UTC

atemerev wrote: post #253

w4ffl35 wrote: post #202

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Yes, you would. And I would prefer to eradicate all damned fascists out of the world, like we did in 1945. We are not the same.

I'm able to thrive under any political system. Globalism is just large scale fascism in my eyes.

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

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Post by dh2022 » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:46 PM UTC

phendrenad2 wrote: post #225

If you're good, and you can demonstrate that you're good, you should have no problem finding a job. There are still many more job openings than there are skilled candidates. And I don't think there's any discrimination against white males, that's certainly a popular talking point from the far-right, but it's simply not true.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Care to show some evidence?

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

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Post by mrayycombi » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:46 PM UTC

Musk wants "hard core" talent, remember Twitter?

He wants people hungry, super motivated and, oh yeah, not too expensive. Remember stories of him eating peanut butter sandwiches and sleeping on floors? He's a frugal/cheap guy.

There's a shortage of Americans willing to meet Musks "brilliant and cheap" spec.

H1bs are cheap(er), hungrier, and sometimes brilliant. And if not brilliant at least "hard core" if required.

Since we can't replace Musk with AI yet, we have a "labor shortage" of cheap, hardcore, brilliant talent. Yup.

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

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Post by EliBullockPapa » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:47 PM UTC

maeil wrote: post #182

binary132 wrote: post #117

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do you feel that employers in your home country should also follow this rubric?

Software ones? Absolutely. Companies selling physical goods lead to a decent amount of jobs in every country they operate in by definition. Not so for software. It is US big tech who has for a decade or 2 reaped enormous benefits from extracting large sums of money from non-US economies while contributing near-zero back to those economies (often not just near-zero but straight up deeply negative amounts due to extern…

What do you mean? Only way I can think of is social media advertising revenue going to big tech instead of local media. But a net negative effect on non-US economies seems hard to believe.

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

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Post by phendrenad2 » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:47 PM UTC

dh2022 wrote: post #264

phendrenad2 wrote: post #225

If you're good, and you can demonstrate that you're good, you should have no problem finding a job. There are still many more job openings than there are skilled candidates. And I don't think there's any discrimination against white males, that's certainly a popular talking point from the far-right, but it's simply not true.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Care to show some evidence?

https://www.hrdive.com/news/skills-based-hiring-helping-tech...

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

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Post by thatcat » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:52 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #179

thatcat wrote: post #147

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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.

There is no right to globalism, and thus the US government isn't forcing companies to be globalist. Globalism is simply the inevitable result of capitalist incentives in the global marketplace, and the US has benefited greatly from it. Not all Americans, obviously, but certainly those that capitalism is intended to benefit (the capitalist class.) And I guess the petite-bougeousie of the American tech class is getting…

>inevitable result of incentives

Market incentives are influenced by policies the US gov sets, so globalist capitalists monopolizing US markets is the inevitable result of US gov policies. Ever heard of Anti-trust laws? They could be updated for the global economy any time.

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

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Post by nuancebydefault » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:53 PM UTC

w4ffl35 wrote: post #172

maeil wrote: post #164

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The irony is palpable. For many years, FAANGs and the likes have made billions across the world without hiring any significant amount of people in nearly all of those economies. Zero profit for the non-US countries. Take a random one, Denmark. Google and Apple sure have been making great money off of the Danes. What has Denmark gotten in return for it? Nothing. It's all gone towards (generally US) investor returns, a…

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As a European it feels weird to know that 55 percent of US population/voters have a very similar opinion, while on this big US based blog these opinions get downvoted.

I will never ever understand what is currently and 8 years ago is/was going on in the US.

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

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Post by w4ffl35 » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 8:53 PM UTC

bdangubic wrote: post #233

vbi8iBEX wrote: post #218

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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.

brace yourself for the next two/four years as the incoming administration is on a mission to kill american workforce chasing every last dollar. I feel you but the pro-America means 180-different to you than what is about to hit us hard

Perhaps. Most certainly the unelected musk / ramaswamy coalition is all about that. It's really up in the air how this will go. With the recent meltdown on X, I await Trump's words and actions. His base is unhappy, as is his inner circle. Musk is flailing, telling people to "fuck yourself in the face" etc. Does trump's base matter now that he's in his 2nd term, or will he tether himself to musk for the duration of his time in office? It will be an interesting 4 years.