Maybe there is some kind of survivor bias in open jobs.
That is, jobs that are desirable are filled in a few days. Crummy jobs stay open for months. So, therefore, most open jobs are bad.
We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
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This is totally fine, but it isn't a "shortage". It is poor product market fit, poor pricing, or just a bad business. If a business cannot support input costs, the business is just a bad business. If I start a business that sells Ferraris for 20k, then complain how I cant buy them cheap enough wholesale, there isn't a shortage.
This example certainly constitutes a "shortage", especially from the point of the employer. He has a demand which he can't fulfill. Due to not fulfilling it, he has problems investing his capital as productively as possible. The idea that job applicants get offered wages which they perceive as too low does not mean that there is not a shortage of similar talent on the market, even at reasonable wages, if there even i…
>> The idea that job applicants get offered wages which they perceive as too low does not mean that there is not a shortage of similar talent on the market, even at reasonable wages, if there even is such a thing.
In the Bay Area, I rarely hear friends complaining of wages "perceived" as too low, usually it is more absolute in terms or it wont pay rent. This isnt usually the case for entry level or medium level jobs. But I constantly hear of this so called shortage of experienced engineers. The fact about experience engineers (10yrs, 15yrs, whatever) is that experience is also correlated with age, family, children and throwing $150k at someone with family simply doesnt work. It isnt a perception issue, you literally cannot fit a family into a studio apartment and afford braces, health premiums, co-pays, etc.
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"I find it strange, as software developers, that we discuss the effects on automation all the time, but no one seems to understand that automation has made searching for new employees incredibly inexpensive and efficient compared to the past." Yes, just like Tinder and other assorted dating apps and sites have made it incredibly easy and efficient to search for a mate, but relatively few people end up in a relationsh…
> once you are given 2 or more options You mean 3 or more? Because saying 2 or more just means you have options and therefore any options induces paralysis
only a programmer could produce such a pedantic comment such as this.
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Does it? I see a large concentration of red dots over Poland, and some over Belgium-France border, all due to coal plants. Then there's UK. Poland takes second place with an overall score of 5.5/10. The carbon dioxide emissions in poland are 7.63 tonnes per capita per year, which is higher than the winner Turkey. The concentrations of PM2.5 are 22 µg/m3 which is almost half of Turkey’s concentrations. There are 69 de…
Yes. From your own quote: Poland, second place (over all) World Atlas has them at #3 https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/cities-with-the-worst-ai... So...not "dirtiest"
Second after Turkey, which is not in the EU.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#745Maybe there is some kind of survivor bias in open jobs. That is, jobs that are desirable are filled in a few days. Crummy jobs stay open for months. So, therefore, most open jobs are bad.
I was curious about this too and got about halfway through a project to parse historic "Ask HN: Who's Hiring" data and find companies with the same job posting over and over. Use it to generate a "Who's Not Actually Hiring" list :) Wasn't curious enough to finish it though...
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You might have not experienced it and if you didn't, congratulations! I'm happy for you (honestly!). But these problems exist all across the board. My last job hunt (signed a new contract just a few weeks ago) has taken me 3 months and I've seen all of the issues OP (and some of the comments) mentions, not only in startups, but also in fortune 500 companies and everything in between (including quite a few companies i…
> I've probably sent about 60-70 cv's and most of them have gotten me at least a phone interview (about 50? I lost count but in the document I was using to keep track of open processes I have 30 companies). Genuine question: why are you applying to so many companies? Are you just coming out of school or unemployment? That seems like a ton of work to juggle and you can't possibly be interested in them all. In this hot…
I've always used the "10%" rule:
Of the companies you apply to, 10% will get back to you.
Of those 10%, 10% will result in an offer.
My last job search (conducted 2017) bore this out: I applied to about 90 or so companies, got 8 interviews, and one offer. I have about 20 years of experience in tech.
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> A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB I actually love it when a developer says something like this, because it tells me way more than even 2 full days of pairing or interviewing could: They know absolutely nothing about software at scale, and are probably extremely arrogant to boot.
Wow, looks like "here cometh the downvotes" homeboy couldn't take the criticism and flagged every comment he disagreed with.
You can't downvote a direct sub-comment.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
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Becoming principal engineers is usually just playing the cards right in general. Very rarely does anyone get this far on technical merit alone. I know several people at Google who easily deserve the title based on quality and volume of their contributions, and several "principal" engineers who do not. Life isn't fair, what can I say. In addition to being good, you have to be at the right time at the right place, plea…
Very true, I see that the higher one goes with the increasing requirement of greater influence radius turns into politics. However what I have noticed recently is that title inflation has arrived to big companies too; mostly to increase retention. So, when I mention played their cards right, I wasn’t referring on how they leverage the soft skills, etc. It was more on individual ability to do salary negotiation each p…
Threatening to leave is not the best strategy at Google BTW. You never know (by design) if a counter-offer will be extended, and you're very likely to be taken up on your bluff. :-)
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> I've probably sent about 60-70 cv's and most of them have gotten me at least a phone interview (about 50? I lost count but in the document I was using to keep track of open processes I have 30 companies). Genuine question: why are you applying to so many companies? Are you just coming out of school or unemployment? That seems like a ton of work to juggle and you can't possibly be interested in them all. In this hot…
I've always used the "10%" rule: Of the companies you apply to, 10% will get back to you. Of those 10%, 10% will result in an offer. My last job search (conducted 2017) bore this out: I applied to about 90 or so companies, got 8 interviews, and one offer. I have about 20 years of experience in tech.
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I don't do the 4-5 interview thing any more either. If you cannot make a determination in 1 or 2 interviews in person - in combination with my work history and references then you are wasting my time and yours.
My girlfriend had 10 or maybe even 11 interviews at Stryker without getting an offer. That's pretty twisted
I have also had some dealings with Stryker and without getting into too many specifics I will say they seem horribly disrespectful to their candidates.