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

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Post by jokethrowaway »

greedo wrote: post #384
hikawaii wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that the average mid level developer makes a salary and stock grant putting them well into the 1% (in USA) I find it questionable that the majority of people are "just" trying to keep a roof over their heads.

Perhaps your assumption that all "mid level developers" make FAANG income is a bit inaccurate? There are tens of thousands of developers across the US not making big bucks. And to be in the 1%, you need to be making north of $800K. The company I work for employees roughly 100 developers, and not one of them makes more than $150K (we don't award RSUs either).

Incorrect, it was 320k$ in 2021

You can filter out by other characteristics here: https://igotstandardsbro.com/

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

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Post by jaclaz »

bombcar wrote: post #248
jaclaz wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well your own link states how fixers are not really a good idea, but you want "disasters" and trasform them in "fixers". And it is not like you can find such disasters easily, nor that you can easily be able to make them into fixers, without years of previous experience. The whole approach, "everyone is scared but you know ..." is based on the assumption that you know more than anyone else (possibly including many pe…

Yeah, that's the whole problem with "make money in real estate" - either it requires (somewhat specialized) knowledge and risk-taking, or you're just gambling on insane appreciation and leveraging that. Anything that "anyone can do" is going to explode at some point.

Let's put aside for the moment the risk-taking aspect.

The "somewhat specialized" knowledge can be explicited as four main things:

1) years (and I mean years) of experience in the field (to be able to quickly assess the non-evident potentialities of a building)

2) knowing a few good, tested, reliable technicians such as architects/engineers (to be able to get a valid project leveraging on these potentialities)

3) knowing (more than) a few good tested, reliable, capable firms (masons/carpenters/plumbers/electricians/painters/etc.) to actually execute the restoration

4) time to be dedicated to managing the project

If you think that - even if you actually happen to find a "gem" - that you can make money hiring people you find on the internet or on the yellow pages, or that the people involved will manage to do a good work at a fair price by themselves, you won't go very far.

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

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Post by pschuegr »

shyn3 wrote: post #95
bugbuddy wrote: post #17

I was a senior dev at a big tech and got laid off in November. I have applied to hundreds of places. Not a lot of responses. I have been doing interview preps the whole time. It has been very demoralizing and I am thinking of switching careers to something else. I have been considering skilled trades. I like carpentry in particular.

March it heats up. Check your resume over. If I can get a job without any big tech you will be fine. Make your resume focus on numbers and maybe have someone review it for free.

What do you mean by "focus on numbers"?

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

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Post by rowaway69 »

Maybe things are not as bad in Europe. We do not make FAANG Palo Alto money but that also means we are not expecting to continue making FAANG money in situations like these. Decent backend developer, ~8 years of experience. Laid off beginning of December, sent out about 18 cold applications since then. I did not hear back from 5 companies, I was rejected (when this happened, usually very early in the process) from 10 companies, and received 3 offers. Ended up with a ten percent raise and five more holiday days than my previous position. Only remote positions.

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

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Post by iExploder »

nivenkos wrote: post #429
iExploder wrote: post #424

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly on point, Europe is feudal and always have been. It is actually the reason why USA was "invented", when people who were fed up with the system left to start anew. I studied, lived and worked in high demand field all my adult life in Europe, am in my mid 30s and have nothing really to show for it. Salaries are lower than USA, the taxes are ridiculous, (progressive up to 50%), reasonably new house prices in rea…

Yeah, although the USA didn't get there by itself, it's built on an empire of exploitation and murder in Latin America and Asia, etc.

whether the gained wealth from exploitation of people outside of USA allowed more mobility between wealth classes inside of USA - that would be a complicated discussion for me

I was merely pointing out the fact that it was possible to ascent to higher wealth class in USA with regular 'honest work' some years ago, whereas in Europe this is in general impossible due to taxation schemes designed to suck the life out of anyone who decides to work as opposed to being born an 'aristocrat' inheriting money, land etc...

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

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Post by Jommi »

mplanchard wrote: post #174
Jommi wrote: post #38

We're hiring at our company. We've had a lot of people come through from the recent waves of layoffs, and usually so far there has been a mix of too high expectations, remote work mismatches as well as just lots of people not making the bar (we are a small company). Still on the lookout for senior rust engineers who want to work at a company that's remote-first with a minimal-meetings culture. You can message me on t…

If you have another way to get in contact other than telegram let me know. I’m not looking, but I’m a senior rust engineer and have others in my network who may be interested.

you can emal me at jommi@tuta.io

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

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Post by Jommi »

dbmkn wrote: post #64
Jommi wrote: post #38

We're hiring at our company. We've had a lot of people come through from the recent waves of layoffs, and usually so far there has been a mix of too high expectations, remote work mismatches as well as just lots of people not making the bar (we are a small company). Still on the lookout for senior rust engineers who want to work at a company that's remote-first with a minimal-meetings culture. You can message me on t…

Is your expectation that people are proficient in Rust already or are you hiring generalist senior engineers who can pick up Rust?

I am quite positive what you are describing would still be a fit for us. Feel free to send me a message.

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

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Post by Jommi »

dangwhy wrote: post #88
Jommi wrote: post #38

We're hiring at our company. We've had a lot of people come through from the recent waves of layoffs, and usually so far there has been a mix of too high expectations, remote work mismatches as well as just lots of people not making the bar (we are a small company). Still on the lookout for senior rust engineers who want to work at a company that's remote-first with a minimal-meetings culture. You can message me on t…

> lookout for senior rust engineers Interesting how companies have trouble hiring for hyper specific tech that they might abandon in a few years. Then what happens to these "rust engineers", do they get laidoff for the next hiring of "X engineers".

Some part of the answer here is that we aren't a company that only works on our own products or research - we have a bunch of client work as well. But yes, "low-level" language could be used here as well.

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

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Post by Jommi »

brundolf wrote: post #61
Jommi wrote: post #38

We're hiring at our company. We've had a lot of people come through from the recent waves of layoffs, and usually so far there has been a mix of too high expectations, remote work mismatches as well as just lots of people not making the bar (we are a small company). Still on the lookout for senior rust engineers who want to work at a company that's remote-first with a minimal-meetings culture. You can message me on t…

Do you have another contact channel for those of us without telegram?

you can email me at jommi@tuta.io

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

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Post by unmole »

zem wrote: post #353
pyrrhotech wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or they are looking at those juicy severance checks and deciding to take a 6 month vacation before applying anywhere again, using state of the economy as an excuse.

why does taking a six month vacation that you can afford need an "excuse"?

Gaps in a resume aren't usually looked upon favourably.
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