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

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Post by InvOfSmallC »

xenity7 wrote: post #398
cloverich wrote: post #385

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What would good tenure ranges look like to you? I feel 3 is the magic number, and 7 is too long (dep. on many factors of course) but feel this is under discussed. Personally id have questions about anything sub 2, but seeing 2 or more 3s would be enough for me to ignore a short stint or two.

Why would a long tenure be a problem?

I don't think it's a problem per say but if same company and no role change means I'm hiring someone who doesn't like changes which in certain cases it's ok in certain cases not what someone is looking for. I don't think it's right or wrong without the context of the hiring manager.

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Post by Yoric »

vunderba wrote: post #503
Yoric wrote: post #378

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Never seen the word used in that sense. As far as me or my dictionary are concerned, a rubric is a category, or perhaps a chapter. :shrug:

Consider purchasing a better English dictionary. I worked in the ESL/EFL industry for years and never encountered the word rubric as a synonym for category/chapter. It is commonly used to refer to a guideline or rule.

Could it be a UK vs. US thingy?

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

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Post by Yoric »

disambiguation wrote: post #426
Yoric wrote: post #76

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I'm probably going to be unpopular, but as a non-American, I actually find that hiring non-American is a good trend, especially if you want to sell all around the world. I don't have an opinion on H1-B specifically.

I guess everyone has a different idea of what's good. I find most people consider something good if it works out for them, and no more thought is given to the issue. As for Americans, I think they have to question what their taxes are doing for them? They grow up receiving a sub-standard public education, they take on an enormous amount of debt to get higher education, and when they reach adulthood, the job market un…

The way I see it, American tech companies are siphoning considerable amounts of money from other countries thanks to a tech monopoly. For instance, I see my taxes being used to pay MS Office licenses/subscriptions, and I strongly suspect that if anybody ever manages to displace MS as king of the word processing hill, it will be a US company, or a non-US company bought by a US company.

So, yeah, my non-US taxes being used to pay for US jobs? I can live with that. But I can also live with them being used to pay for jobs in my country.

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

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Post by JustExAWS »

compiler-devel wrote: post #497
JustExAWS wrote: post #493

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Well recruiters are idiots for the most part: 1. I had a recruiter from Amazon reach out to me about “exciting opportunities” as an SDE on LinkedIn. The issue was that my profile showed that I was already working at AWS. 2. A recruiter from Google reached out to me about an Engineering Manager position. Not only did I not have any management experience on my profile, my current position then was in the consulting dep…

Recruiters, in my case, have either been contractors or employees of the companies for which they're hiring. In the latter case, they're better prepared than those of the former.

These were recruiters working for the respective companies.

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Post by JustExAWS »

w4ffl35 wrote: post #518
JustExAWS wrote: post #516

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What exactly is supposed to be inferred by this?

> Furthermore, in the last two years I experienced two layoffs. In both situations it was white males let go in favor of Indian and KZ foreigners

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

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Post by w4ffl35 »

JustExAWS wrote: post #519
w4ffl35 wrote: post #518

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What exactly is supposed to be inferred by this? > Furthermore, in the last two years I experienced two layoffs. In both situations it was white males let go in favor of Indian and KZ foreigners

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