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Panic at the Job Market

matt.sh

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Re: Panic at the Job Market

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> manage yourself and manage your peers, but you also have an engineering manager and a project manager and the CEO is your skip-level manager and the CEO’s brother is also your skip-level manager too This is hilarious and I’m sad I’ve seen versions of this more than once. Overall I enjoyed most of this article but disagree about the objection to behavioral interviews. I think they’re an important part of the modern…

>if a simple question about past conflicts makes you this defensive then its exactly the type of thing it was meant to screen for.

If you asked this question to me I'd think you are an idiot.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

#652
post #454

The job market is weird. It seems there are more and more candidates on the market. However, whenever I recruit for senior roles, it seems the candidates are less and less skilled. This is highly anecdotal. The job post is the same: sr. java developer. Everyone has 5+ years of experience. I need someone who can: - explain in depth how a HashMap works - verbally pseudocode a program that solves a problem, where an ade…

Don't mean to be rude, but does the job posting list a competitive salary? Now that they're required to list salaries in coastal states I filter for that while searching and don't even consider jobs paying under $[threshold]k.

This explains it! Ive been doing the same, if job postings aren’t in the range Im looking for, Ill skip over the posting altogether. This is fantastic, saves time for both.

I wonder if it goes both ways. Low numbers repel the competent engineers but will certainly attract others for whom the salary represents an upgrade.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

#653
Pure speculation: what is the possibility the current administration told silicon valley to dial down hiring and salaries to help with inflation? the result being our job market has been destroyed. it would be worth investigating this.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

#654
I am 20 years old and voluntarily unemployed for life; I leech off the social wellfare systems shamelessly and happily, no intend to ever get a job.

Facts:

One /// You are BUZZING. To even be interested in "jobs" is to be in a losers game. To be emotional, complaining and helpless about it as most here (who are not ignorant about this because they have not got to situation – lack of job – where deciding whether to leave or to apply again is REVELANT)

Two /// You must adapt. It takes three seconds, SNAP, to change attitude; but those who do not adapt will be abused by employers. Hesistate and you will end up going back to hell you almost realized you want to leave.

Three /// To inspire you, my own philosophy literally goes "death before employement", meaning in the worst case one prepares to be homeless. There exists HUGE difference regarding this in that Middle East, Asia, Africa, few former Soviet States & PARTS OF South Americe will be such that you are better off to spend money not in the cheap blanket, water bottle, backpack & food but a ticket, perhaps used bicycle to another country + paperwork there (which tends to cost). At this point, attempting to do the airport thing may be safe. In most of Europe, homelessness is relatively safe. The point is: if you are not prepared to die before the principles, you will die yourself; see what has happended to these human's souls.

Four /// Then, what point does it make to leech off governments invididually, separatedly? I mean this: Were 100 in my position to chip in 300-500 euros (after inflation, this is not much; one months rent in many places; compare relatove to benefits of this idea), I could start a foundation here, for the normal wellbeing of these invididuals, purchase an used village school for 15K and invest 10K for making it livable (EG conducting proper examinations to prevent weather damage; establishing small pipe, carpentry, electronics & brick/concrete workshop to avoid hiring construction companies; water filtering & collection; planting trees in the backyards; buying sleeping bags); then rent this for those of the group who can get the rent from the government wellfare and give this free for those who cannot, for use. This would result at best in wealth generation, if not from the rent, from next decade establishing small farm / brewery and possibly having the foundation own few "companies" that are LARPs (CEOs and even few pointless meetings!) but do provide "professional" services to other companies, EG perhaps one company for IT, another for small construction gigs, third for food buffets / event organization — depending on the skill-structure. Again, change in attitude (but of different type in this) is needeed, because over-emphasis (on real — but entirely manageable!) trust issues leads impoverishment.

Five /// Most humans I know do not care about building wealth, IE assets. They will obtain a great house from their dead parents and not even think about renting it or the land but always want to SELL. TO become a formidable enemy, TO crush the establishment, one must have the will and the capacity for turning property into assets and assets into more assets (EG by using your highest market value lowest income assets for loan collatetal to invest into your high return business expansion.)

Re: Panic at the Job Market

#655

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's absurd. He has no concept of market rates (and frankly I'm unsurprised that he's not getting hired if his expectations are this out of whack). His resume even confirms this[0], because he seemingly thinks the appropriate level at FAANG would be L10 which is extremely rare . There is a 0% chance that his experience would level him that high. The entire article can be chocked up to a massively inflated sense of en…

Oh. My. God. His resume starts with a quote of himself stating that he has “seen things you people wouldn't believe.” It goes on to highlight that he purchased a domain name in 1997. He claims to have developed “the highest performing in-memory database in the world” but complains that “nobody really wants to buy it when free worse performing choies [sic] exist.” The part about nobody wanting to buy his product is in…

An inflated and grandiose view of yourself and your actions is classic bipolar II during bouts of mania, I skimmed the article a bit and immediately got those vibes. Particularly in how long and rambling the content is, it strikes me as something written all at once, without any real review.

(I grew up around a bipolar II individual. I am not an expert.)

Re: Panic at the Job Market

#656
post #53

>According to all the interviews I’ve failed over the years (I don’t think I’ve ever passed an actual “coding interview” anywhere?), the entire goal of tech hiring is just finding people in the 100 to 115 midwit block then outright rejecting everybody else as too much of an unknown risk. As a (now) senior/staff-level engineer back out on the job market for the first time in a while, I'm begrudgingly coming to accept…

As someone not in the tech industry... The whole thing about coding tests sounds insane. Yes, I have friends in hiring positions in the tech industry, yes, I understand that many applicants cannot even complete these extremely basic questions. But shit. You're hiring so-called "engineers." The bar should be higher than fizzbuzz.

If people hiring structural engineers had to ask them "should you build bridges with steel or cardboard" and expect 80% of applicants to fail or cheat on the question, our society would be fucked.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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post #653

Pure speculation: what is the possibility the current administration told silicon valley to dial down hiring and salaries to help with inflation? the result being our job market has been destroyed. it would be worth investigating this.

absolutely 0 chance of this. Consider how much of the Government’s moves are leaked. Something like this would almost certainly fall in the hands of someone in the Press.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

#658

My pessimistic take on the world at the moment is that at least 50% of jobs in the US fall into Graeber's BS jobs category. I saw a map a few years ago that labelled the largest employer in each state. In every state except Arkansas (Walmart), the largest employer was a university or a healthcare company. Education and healthcare policies are controversial because everyone wants those things to be as good as possible…

Its not actually UBI. Its a basic jobs program, which is different. Its only UBI if anyone can sign up for those jobs, and if you get paid if you stop working. But there is still (a lot) of gatekeeping on who gets jobs in those industries, and in any industry.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

#660

It's a pain trying to find a job these days. I'm literally going broke if I can't find a job in a couple of months. (Realistically I guess the warehouse is hiring) Surprisingly enough I got interviews from a big tech company. Definitely the biggest place I have ever interviewed, I don't even believe I'm getting interviewed. Didn't make it but lasted two rounds so at least I should have a bit more confidence.

Good luck in your search! Its a difficult market.
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