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Post by voytec »

willcipriano wrote: post #14
pixelmonkey wrote: post #10

Small correction: the post says "2019 pandemic," but the pandemic was actually in early 2020. "COVID-19" is so named because it is traced back to a first case in China in December 2019. WHO declared it a global emergency on January 30, 2020 which is about when Western press started taking it more seriously. WHO announced "COVID-19" as the name of the new disease, following some international naming guidelines, on Feb…

When does a pandemic begin is sort of an interesting question. I agree when the virus is first seen is probably a bad date to use for historical context purposes, but I see the logic for it.

Was there any government which wasn't still downplaying the situation during first two months of 2020?

First cases outside China were reported in Jan. WHO announced the pandemic on Mar 11 and first related lockdown (outside China?) was announced in Italy 2 days later.

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Post by mattjaynes »

mg wrote: post #20

Some while ago, someone posted a tool to analyze the frequency of any term on HN over time: https://hn.curiosity.ai/#/trends It seems to still work. And the numbers seem to be roughly in line with this article.

Thanks - I was curious to check "ninja" and "rockstar". They seem to have peaked 8-10 years ago (from a quick glance). Was surprised they are still used at all after taking that pounding from job ads for so many years.

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Post by ericmcer »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #10

Small correction: the post says "2019 pandemic," but the pandemic was actually in early 2020. "COVID-19" is so named because it is traced back to a first case in China in December 2019. WHO declared it a global emergency on January 30, 2020 which is about when Western press started taking it more seriously. WHO announced "COVID-19" as the name of the new disease, following some international naming guidelines, on Feb…

That is super interesting because I do not recall hearing about it or taking it seriously until early March 2020.

It really points to how USA centric our news is that there was a global health emergency declared in January, but we were so hyper focused on the upcoming election and Trumps antics that it was barely making the news. Or it was being purposely kept under wraps? It seems like something that should have been brought front and center as soon as we heard about it.

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Post by fasteddie31003 »

nico wrote: post #26

This is great, thank you for putting it together > More and more jobs are looking for senior and management level positions. It is increasing tough to be an entry level job applicant in tech On top of this, at least in my recent experience, it seems like companies not only want more senior applicants, they are also a lot more picky about their experience and want them to know their whole tech stack, have a ton of pra…

I think it is a lot harder for new Software Engineers to get into the field today. I was a self-taught engineer when I got into the field 10 years ago. Now I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 100 company. But now I'm hearing stories that companies are not even looking at self-taught Software Engineers.

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Post by flutas »

nico wrote: post #26

This is great, thank you for putting it together > More and more jobs are looking for senior and management level positions. It is increasing tough to be an entry level job applicant in tech On top of this, at least in my recent experience, it seems like companies not only want more senior applicants, they are also a lot more picky about their experience and want them to know their whole tech stack, have a ton of pra…

> The current job searching experience, at least in tech, feels broken in many different ways

Yup, after being told I had a (Sr. level) job x3 times at just as many companies only for it to "fall through due to budget" I gave up. Looking at you Disney and Mozilla.

I'm riding with my current company until something changes in hiring. I'm missing money, but I'm enjoying life.

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Post by MattGaiser »

ericmcer wrote: post #33
pixelmonkey wrote: post #10

Small correction: the post says "2019 pandemic," but the pandemic was actually in early 2020. "COVID-19" is so named because it is traced back to a first case in China in December 2019. WHO declared it a global emergency on January 30, 2020 which is about when Western press started taking it more seriously. WHO announced "COVID-19" as the name of the new disease, following some international naming guidelines, on Feb…

That is super interesting because I do not recall hearing about it or taking it seriously until early March 2020. It really points to how USA centric our news is that there was a global health emergency declared in January, but we were so hyper focused on the upcoming election and Trumps antics that it was barely making the news. Or it was being purposely kept under wraps? It seems like something that should have bee…

Plenty of global health emergencies don't make it to developed countries. There are 3 ongoing such designated events right now.

COVID is one. Can you name the other two?

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Post by dbcurtis »

MattGaiser wrote: post #9

> The rise of "Senior" and the decline of "Intern" I don't know anyone who has anything positive to say about hiring juniors and between it getting far harder to wade through the avalanche of juniors with Coursera certs and AI making the easier work no longer require a human, I don't see a great future for them. Even in my first job 4 years ago, the senior manager there said in a meeting "we don't hire junior enginee…

I wonder how much of that is basic economics? In a hot market, juniors get hired to fill a role with the idea that OJT will bring them up to speed soon enough to be better than an empty chair. When there are plenty of applicants, companies can be more selective.

My advice to new grads: Internships!!! Think ahead and use a couple summers to prove yourself to one or two potential employers. Where I work, a lot of our NCG pipeline is intern-driven.

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Post by sleepingreset »

wanderingstan wrote: post #24
sleepingreset wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and which site would have the good candidates and conversations, then?

I’m a ways out of that world now, but my colleagues still in it say that twitter and discord (and getting invited to the “right” private servers) are where jobs are found for blockchain.

... and how might one find the "right" places for that. lol. i just code holed up like a rat haven't really joined communities for it but yk

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