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Panic at the Job Market
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#92>The “most advanced” people often use simple solutions indistinguishable from people who don’t know what they are doing. Average people are often in the “knows enough to be dangerous” category by over-thinking and over-working and over-processing everything out of lack of more complete experience to discover simpler and cleaner solutions.
The article was worth reading just for the above gem.
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#93Replace the 16th Amendment with a single tax on net assets at the interest rate on government debt, assessed at their liquidation value ... and use the revenue to privatize government with a citizen's dividend.
https://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.tx...
When we got a law passed to privatize space launch services back in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boLdXiLJZoY
we were in the midst of a quasi-depression so I decided to address the problem of private capitalization of technology with the aforelinked proposal.
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#94It really sucks right now, but recent grads and juniors are suffering the most right now, to my understanding. There's an over-production of CS grads, as the industry looked very lucrative, so a lot of people decided to go software engineering route. It's hard to make a case for start ups to bet on inexperienced people. For mature companies, why pay for 2 juniors, when you can get a senior for 1.5 price, who might do…
>” It's hard to make a case for start ups to bet on inexperienced people. For mature companies, why pay for 2 juniors, when you can get a senior for 1.5 price, who might do the same work. In the previous years even C-level companies had internship-to-full-time pipelines, but now it looks more scarce.”
I agree with you, and think the value proposition for these companies to hire junior talent is especially unappealing given the 1-2 year job hopping which has become popular of late. It’s just not worth training someone up if they’ll either leave or require a salary that could have bought you someone experienced in the first place.
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#95> 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,…
Yea, seriously. Much like how people complain about fizzbuzz until they see how many people can't do that, the amount of candidates where basic "so tell me about how you approached a major design decision not going the way you wanted" question had them essentially admitting to being vengeful and petty is weirdly high. Or people when asked how they dealt with a junior engineer who put in a messy PR essentially recount…
Yes, I had a candidate litterally telling me "design decisions always goes my way because I can always convince others that I'm right and they're wrong".
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#96> 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…
Behavioural interviews are extremely effective provided you do them properly. Running behavioural interviews properly is extremely difficult and takes legitimate skill and experience to orchestrate. It's not something you can pull off by simply following a few rote questions in an interview pack.
As a result, most behavioural interviews are ineffective and absolutely riddled with bias.
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#97Wild that explanations of the tech job market like this are still being written without referencing the tax consequences of Section 174 changes.
On the other hand, how would anyone have heard about this? This is the very first time I'm hearing anything about Section 174. Plus, this doesn't really explain Europe's tech sector dumping, since from a quick search this is entirely an American thing. So maybe you're just as wrong as anyone else?
I've heard about it a million times, but I also tend to follow tech-business things (folks on twitter, Stratechery, etc). Agree it doesn't explain Europe.
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#98I will add my two cents for people who believe that this might be related only to the SWE and tangent industries: It's really not. I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from finance to fashion, or just trying to get promoted vertically (or horizontally), failing rather miserably. Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideratio…
> I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from... With recent trends - have any of them applied to armaments manufacturers or munitions plants?
In post-Communist countries the defense industry is rock solid corruption and nepotism, mostly they assemble things on foreign licenses. In developed countries like Italy, France, Germany, Sweden defense industry don't hire foreigners and also nepotism, and even there the engineering jobs are meh. Basically there is no defense industry boom. There might be some drone related interesting things happening in Ukraine itself as they can squeeze out a lot of extremely cheap labor but you rather don't want to emigrate to Ukraine.
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#99The article is saying that tech jobs are declining due to high interest rates. It's also saying that companies now expect you to perform tasks from multiple departments, leading to burnout and low job satisfaction when you do get a job.
Yes, I don't really understand why he went from talking about tech jobs declining to bitching about the hiring process...
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#100>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…
I've been observing that coworkers hired through the modern formulaic leetcode/sd/behavioral loop are homogeneously competent in a specific way — if there is an agreement (aka "alignment") on what needs to be actually done, they'd do it passably fine. Corporate dysfunction is more of a product of how that alignment is achieved.