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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.
Even rich people aren’t that rational. They might get lower taxes but the number of millionaires tripled inder Biden.
Yes, this is what everybody I know is experiencing right now. Caveat lector: This is simply a retelling of my personal experience, YMMV. This is not advice. What has consistently worked for me: I stopped applying for jobs, and redirected all that effort into creating and publishing open source projects that demonstrate competence in the areas of work I want. And, just as importantly, I contribute to big established o…
You can also get good hires and open positions thru community friends. Invest in community and community invests in you.
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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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It is not the Danes
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Then make this choice when you own a company. What % of your paycheck are you willing to donate to being pro America?
> Then make this choice when you own a company Absolutely I would. > What % of your paycheck are you willing to donate to being pro America? This is a tu quoque logical fallacy. I'll cross that bridge if and when I come to it, but I can tell you that I'd rather take a pay cut than hire a foreigner.
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It sounds like those in Denmark who are rejoicing over this are also anti-globalization, so its a win for everyone then.
Being anti globalization means everyone loses which you will find out more about soon
Are you saying everybody gained from globalisation?
American steel workers?
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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.
I live in New Zealand, applied for 5 jobs in March 2024, got 2 offers (Atlassian, small startup - both Aus based remote jobs), the other 3 companies didn't move me past resume. I have a CS degree and over a decade of experience as a full stack dev. Maybe I just got lucky, but there have always been people out there that seem to apply for hundreds of companies and land nothing. I've also helped some of those people la…
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Many companies officially endorse systematic racism under the banner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). They isn’t just trying to exclude white males to hire more of the opposite traits. Many will have support groups for non-whites and non-males for their specific issues, special training that can lead to promotions which whites can’t have, and put out posters or videos displaying non-whites to show how much…
I'm close with a principal engineering manager at a large tech company. At his level, bonuses are in part determined by hiring minorities (discriminating against whites, East Asians, men), and resumés are sorted by the same category to ensure some minimum of minorities are given an opportunity before a less racially desirable candidate even has a chance of being looked at. IBM Red Hat is being sued for this, having s…
We have some empty words about diversity but no goals or metrics, so nothing effective will actually change.
As a (white, male) manager, I have huge power over who gets to interview. My network is, sadly, largely white/asian and male. So if I don’t even think about it, I will perpetuate the imbalance.
I haven’t seen bonuses tied to diversity. I have seen a promo doc where a manager was praised for increasing diversity, with a greater percentage of women now in his department. I then discovered he had hired 1 woman and 26 men, raising his percentage of women from 0. I’m not kidding.
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Most companies are trying to hire people with more than 2-4 years of experience, but not 0-2 years of experience. They are far from losing all candidates to death or retirement.
If no one hires 0-2 how many 2-4 will there be?
I think this one of the reasons for the popularity of H1B, as this new normal isn’t worldwide yet.