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Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by rndaom »

n_ary wrote: post #61
nopelynopington wrote: post #31

I'm in the EU, I just picked up a new job as a senior dev. I had been a team lead / manager but struggled to find another role as I only have two years experience in management. Picking up a dev role was easier. Things I've learned in the process (and from being on interview panels myself) 1) I tend to stay in a job a long time (5 years plus) and this is highly valued by interviewers 2) in tech interviews you need to…

> 1) I tend to stay in a job a long time (5 years plus) and this is highly valued by interviewers I believe this is an EU thing for us. I had informal discussion with friends from US/CA, and there, it is somehow seen as stagnation and something something about pay not improving.

Comparing EU to US job market in IT is a bitter joke (for EU). IMO "Loyalty" and similar traits that you usually would use for describing romantic relationships is a sign of how immature the EU market is.

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by a_t48 »

rndaom wrote: post #82
a_t48 wrote: post #6

After I quit my last job, I ended up starting my own thing - wasn't ready to go through the hassle of interviewing again.

Good luck! what did you do? Consulting or your own product/startup?

Thanks! I'm building a new robotics framework, a competitor to ROS - https://www.basisrobotics.tech/

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by redrove »

nullc wrote: post #15
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you are interviewing just for practice and rejecting all the offers? Not afraid to get on some kind of black list because of that behavior?

No, the poster is "overemployed". That's when people commit fraud against their employers by accepting multiple concurrent full time salaried positions and then phoning in their jobs until they're fired or the employer folds.

Yes, that’s right!

Good wage slave, here’s your pizza and happy Friday.

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by mejutoco »

elzbardico wrote: post #41
darkwizard42 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution to a housing crisis is to limit immigration? Wouldn’t it be to build more dense housing (thereby spurring economic activity and lowering a primary expense of households)???

Sorry for interrupting your religious moment. But in the real world you need capital for that. There’s absolutely no fucking reason to consider immigration a human right.

The human rights declaration

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

There are reasons, although one might disagree with them.

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by dakiol »

nopelynopington wrote: post #31

I'm in the EU, I just picked up a new job as a senior dev. I had been a team lead / manager but struggled to find another role as I only have two years experience in management. Picking up a dev role was easier. Things I've learned in the process (and from being on interview panels myself) 1) I tend to stay in a job a long time (5 years plus) and this is highly valued by interviewers 2) in tech interviews you need to…

Also, the job market in EU is healthier I believe. I also picked up a new job this year. Having less than 5 years definitely makes it very hard. Between 5 and 10, is not impossible, but hard. 10+ is good.

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by dakiol »

> Many of my friends with varying range of experience 5-9 years

> I thought it was bad only for freshers, but it looks like that everyone is struggling.

It's better for people with 10+ years of experience. For everyone else is harder than in previous years.

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by nvy »

mejutoco wrote: post #85
elzbardico wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for interrupting your religious moment. But in the real world you need capital for that. There’s absolutely no fucking reason to consider immigration a human right.

The human rights declaration https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... There are reasons, although one might disagree with them.

Article 13 absolutely does not imply that unrestricted immigration is a human right. To do so would be to stomp on national sovereignty.

Article 13 concerns freedom of movement within one's own country, and the right of return thereto.

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by yoav »

rndaom wrote: post #80

Market is in the gutter. Many job ads are fake and only there to confuse shareholders about the company health. Interviewers are looking for the tiniest bit of excuse to fail you along the process while quite often they are looking for lesser engineers than themselves as this buys them job security. Offers, when they come, are much worse (terms + money) than what they were 2 years ago. Most of the companies don't wan…

This is such an important point. I know several startups that are running on fumes, and have about pages with 15 employees who were actually laid off over a year ago and job postings they have no intent to even reply to candidates.

Some of these got a small bump by slapping ai on their marketing site or product but so many companies just playing a shell game with vcs hoping to survive to the next zirp era

Re: Ask HN: What do you guys think of the current job market in tech?

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Post by [deleted] »

defrost wrote: post #73
meiraleal wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please, kick out all the brazilians that invaded your country. They are more skilled than the average brazilian that didnt emigrate and we sure need those here. It makes no sense to be the scapegoat of unhappy extremists in australia or any other country

> It makes no sense to be the scapegoat of unhappy extremists Check the tone of the comments by myself and trog above, we're a mostly friendly nation happy to meet people from across the globe, currently something like 25% of the Australian population was born overseas. If you look at the graph I linked in a comment above you can see the current pressure - way more new people arriving than normal .. overstressing the…

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