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Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by runnerup »

dieselgate wrote: post #105
runnerup wrote: post #86

Laid off in October. Was making $130k as a mid-career embedded/C++/Python guy in LCOL USA. Supposed to start new job this Monday for $80k as an IT backend Java software developer at a University. Been a very, very rough few months. The new pay will be difficult to service my debt properly.

What does starting a new role this coming week mean for you looking for jobs - will you continue searching or just hunker down for a bit?

Will stick with this for at least a year. I can take classes for free at a top tier university, which I love. Planning to use it to try to get into a well ranked masters program and then maybe FAANG? Pipe dream maybe, I went to a third tier university for a different engineering degree and got about a 2.9 GPA there.

But I absolutely love learning and am excited to take courses. Just hard to decide which 1 course per semester to take.

Maybe also see if I can help with some research in EE or CS or computational biology.

Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by Ralo »

JohnFen wrote: post #102
Ralo wrote: post #41

I'm attempting to enter this field at possibly the worst time, with the worst qualifications. No YOE, no degree. I do have friends in the field that may be able to help but it's far from guaranteed. Only thing I have going for me is that I have many years of non-professional programming experience and multiple great open source projects but at this point, I think my only hope is accepting anything . Any pay, any loca…

Also look at companies that aren't obviously software companies. Manufacturing, Transportation, Energy, etc., all need programmers, too. And many of those jobs are more interesting than you'd think.

In my local city, that's what most of my postings are for too. So, I'd be very open to that.

Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by Ralo »

sharemywin wrote: post #96
Ralo wrote: post #41

I'm attempting to enter this field at possibly the worst time, with the worst qualifications. No YOE, no degree. I do have friends in the field that may be able to help but it's far from guaranteed. Only thing I have going for me is that I have many years of non-professional programming experience and multiple great open source projects but at this point, I think my only hope is accepting anything . Any pay, any loca…

look at government jobs and universities. maybe non-profits.

That's a good idea. I'll look into that

Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by Ralo »

ryan-allen wrote: post #99
Ralo wrote: post #41

I'm attempting to enter this field at possibly the worst time, with the worst qualifications. No YOE, no degree. I do have friends in the field that may be able to help but it's far from guaranteed. Only thing I have going for me is that I have many years of non-professional programming experience and multiple great open source projects but at this point, I think my only hope is accepting anything . Any pay, any loca…

I got my first job at 19 after the dot com collapse, I was hired _because_ I had no work experience, no degree, and no expectations of salary (I was hired on minimum wage, though). They wanted a few people with no understanding of what it was like before the crash. I hope you find something!

I do find that hopeful. I assume the hardest jobs at the moment would be the senior positions. These companies still need projects moving but also don't have much cash to pay, so the senior are first to get axed. At least, in my thought.

I have a brother whos a licensed electrician. When he was doing his on-job training, he always had steady work but once he got his full license and pay raise, he found himself getting laid off every year. The company would get less work for the winter and they axed the seniors right away.

Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by consp »

flippinburgers wrote: post #100
oarabbus_ wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>If you're like me and have 3yrs of (FAANG and growth stage startups) SWE and 1yr of product eng / TPM'ing you're basically fucked. I hope you find something soon, but let's be realistic here, claiming SWEs with FAANG experience on the resume are "fucked" is some real extreme hyperbole. If you could pass the engineering hiring bar at FAANG, surely you can do an approximation of how many people with 4 years of career…

Maybe in the sense that the firehose monthly paycheck cannot be found at another company so I have to agree with you that the parent's comment seems very distorted. Parent, try imagining a career like mine: 16+ years of working for startups that paid in the $60K ~ $80K range. Now feel better about yourself.

In many places in the world even with comparable economies you'd earn less.

Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by Jarwain »

kadoban wrote: post #98
KerrAvon wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counterpoint: be a little scared. Mild curiosity is not a good reason to try cannabis. (1) Some people are more sensitive than others to THC, and, worst case, you can end up hospitalized. (2) Smoking anything is bad for your lungs. If you really want to do it, try low grade edibles; do it in the presence of a friend so they can get you medical help if you need it. Only a small number of people will have a problem, bu…

> Some people are more sensitive than others to THC, and, worst case, you can end up hospitalized. How? For an adult human, marijuana is one of the safest substances out there. Easily safer than alcohol. Don't drive or operate heavy machinery and you'll be fine. What percentage of people end up in the hospital from it, and how? I'm not sure I'd recommend edibles for a first-timer. The high lasts a fairly long time, s…

There are tradeoffs. It's a lot easier to manage your dose for edibles vs smoking. Edibles and smoking do have qualitatively different effects though.

Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by Taurenking »

foobazzy wrote: post #108

I'll just repost one of my previous comments. Slight update: I'm now completely broke and living off of my girlfriend's income. (It feels horrible to say that out loud) --- older comment below --- Was laid off in August while working for a US-based company. My first layoff in a 10-year career. Still looking for a job. I'm broke. As in "can't pay my bills next month" broke. People are hiring but remote jobs are hard t…

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Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by sshine »

foobazzy wrote: post #108

I'll just repost one of my previous comments. Slight update: I'm now completely broke and living off of my girlfriend's income. (It feels horrible to say that out loud) --- older comment below --- Was laid off in August while working for a US-based company. My first layoff in a 10-year career. Still looking for a job. I'm broke. As in "can't pay my bills next month" broke. People are hiring but remote jobs are hard t…

My condolences to hear that your confidence is broken.

The previous time I was unemployed, I got rejected 7 times in a row. I found my humility and accepted a job doing PHP for a bunch of bullies at my career starting salary.

This time I started out with pretty low hopes, but lined up 5 interviews in a week, went with the first offer in two days, and changed my mind with the second offer after one more day, ticking more boxes. I needed people to tell me I was aiming too low, because of bad memory.

I’m trying to say, I was pretty broken the last time, and my confidence turned me into a job repellant. I hope you get paid soon, so you can heal your confidence. The bad voices turn this into being about something it’s not.

Re: Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?

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Post by selfmodruntime »

Ralo wrote: post #41

I'm attempting to enter this field at possibly the worst time, with the worst qualifications. No YOE, no degree. I do have friends in the field that may be able to help but it's far from guaranteed. Only thing I have going for me is that I have many years of non-professional programming experience and multiple great open source projects but at this point, I think my only hope is accepting anything . Any pay, any loca…

This is why I told my friends to get a community college degree at the least.

In times of prosperity, you can and do get hired without a degree. But when the industry takes a nose dive, you will get skipped over for candidates who do have a degree.

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