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Panic at the Job Market

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Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by hampelm »

> As far as I can tell, the “behavioral interview” is essentially the same as a Scientology intake session except, you know, for capitalism instead. You have to answer the same 8 questions at every interview around “so what would you do if you had a conflict at work?” where the interviewer treats you like a 5 year old learning about people for the first time instead of acknowledging you as a professional with 0.5, 1, 2, 3 decades of experience.

Man, I don't know how many interviews the author has been on the other side of the table for. There are a _lot_ of people with 2 decades of experience who have no idea how to communicate constructively with other humans over the internet. It is not a solved problem.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by xivzgrev »

lovich wrote: post #25

I generally like the article but the author seems to have a really inflated view of what jobs are paying. At one point he’s claiming that a stable non tech company like a tractor manufacturer is paying 5k-10k. Even assuming that’s including taxes so divide by two, and constraining to just software employees for that claim. There is no way the average pay is nearly a million a year. The average software engineer in th…

Yah I had no idea where that came from. Assume 250 working day in a year that’s…$1.25 - $2.5 million per year. At a tractor manufacturer.

It was probably a typo, with extra zero. they probably meant $500-$1000 per day. That would be $125k-$250k which seems much more reasonable

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by kjkjadksj »

globular-toast wrote: post #40
kjkjadksj wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems there’s always a comment like this on HN when the writing isn’t cracker dry

There's a difference between "not dry" and "intentionally writing like a 6 year old".

I’d be very impressed if a 6 year old wrote like this.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by KerrAvon »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #32
thegrim33 wrote: post #22

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It seems there’s always a comment like this on HN when the writing isn’t cracker dry

Sometimes they're right about clarity but I read TFA and it seems fine? The writing seems very clear to me, maybe you have to be a boomer to find it difficult?

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by layer8 »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #31

There’s a company in between initial growth and stable company, which has become increasingly relevant. I don’t have any fancy name for it, but it’s the one where your company gets bought by private equity and “creates efficiency” by laying half of your company and limps across the 3 year tax mark as a tired old dog, changing hands again.

Startdown? Enshitterprise?

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by writeslowly »

This brought up a recent experience of my own with the tech interview process:

I have to conduct a lot of coding interviews at my job (I personally think DS&A interviews are kind of stupid, but I get assigned to do them all the time anyway). I recently did one with a senior engineer who seemed like he was sort of blowing off the whole thing, and also forgot almost everything about the language we were running it in. In my feedback, I noted that it was one of the worst DS&A interviews I've ever done, in that everything was a fail on our rubric, but also he seemed more or less competent to me based on our conversation.

In the interview debrief, one of our managers also stated (in response to my feedback) he doesn't really care about DS&A interviews. And then the hiring manager completely ignored the bad interview feedback because it turned out the candidate was a referral and everyone already knew he could code. So the whole thing (at least the whole coding interview thing) was a waste of time, since literally nobody involved seemed to care what happened in the interview, including me, but I guess if there's an interview process everyone feels compelled to follow it

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by JohnFen »

angry_old_man_5 wrote: post #45
JohnFen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a personal blog. There's nothing wrong with being as casual as you like on your personal blog.

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You shouldn't take any single posting here as indicative of all the postings here. HN posts plenty of stuff that isn't to my taste at all. I just ignore those things and pay attention to the stuff that is to my taste.
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