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Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by fedsocpuppet »

lostmsu wrote: post #76
fedsocpuppet wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was an undergrad and this is just wrong. Most are not going into HFT, and a bunch don't go into FAANG either. And not everyone who gets in was raised in a perfect upper middle class life. Do you really want to care about judgement from people who think not working at a trading firm is a failure? Those people are insufferable anyway

MIT EECS undergrad? I can believe not everyone is HFT out of the college, but there is a broader point being made.

Yes. I mean if the point is that MIT grads have unfair advantages sure, but he's built a quite unrealistic image of MIT/its students. There is a whole spectrum from IOI gold medalists to students who fail intro classes.

Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by yodon »

Since there are currently no posts mentioning this, if you have down time, build something.

Not because it will make you rich, but because it shows you have the grit to actually do something. It will also keep your skills fresh and/or grow them.

These things do make a huge difference to hiring managers.

Hunting for work in a down economy is hard and depressing. Building something is a excellent way to stave off depression. Much better than self-pity, alcohol, drugs, videos games, or doom scrolling.

Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by jpau »

Sorry to hear the challenge.

You and your friends should email me with your resume and anything you're proud to have built. I'll extend that to any MIT senior/recent grad who wants to discuss moving to SF and helping us apply LLMs to build product features that solve interesting customer problems.

I'm at james.peterson@fathom.video. Include "[responding to HN thread 43614795]" in the title. I'd love to chat.

Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by tmaly »

Aurornis wrote: post #2

Truly sorry you feel this way. For what it’s worth, this was common for people graduating into the 2008 financial crisis, too. It’s actually unusual that we went for so long without another period of contraction. From last time around: The people who kept pushing and took any job, anywhere turned out okay. This translated to a lot of people taking jobs below what they expected to get or having to move when they didn’…

It was the same for me in the 2001 dotcom crash. It was incredibly hard to find work.
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