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Panic at the Job Market

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Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

whoknowsidont wrote: post #684
theredsix wrote: post #448

The author's tone is condescending, angry and entitled. If everyday interactions with him followed the same tone, I would argue that he is the exact type of person behavioral interviews are meant to screen out (technically competent but a nightmare to work with).

Tone policing is the sign of someone who has nothing else to offer except their indignation.

Upvoted your comment. So many comments here are trying to psychoanalyze a smart guy (in my view). A lot of what he has written is sarcasm - which is total lost on the autistic nerd.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

_heimdall wrote: post #834

Anyone have any insights into why this doesn't seem to come with a rise in unemployment rates in the US? Its still common to see headlines and politicians touting how low unemployment is and how many jobs were created last month. Is the data wrong, or is this issue very limited to a small enough population that it doesn't raise national numbers?

>Anyone have any insights into why this doesn't seem to come with a rise in unemployment rates in the US?

It may be true that unemployment may not be high as is officially defined, i.e someone with a just a job.

But if you look closely, many hardworking and capable people find it hard to make ends meet, with the jobs they have. Basically the middle class is being hollowed out.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

novok wrote: post #489

This guy is pretty smart, I wonder what he fails on in the interview process? Must be something consistently off putting? Or the agony becomes too great when he tries to practice yet another leetcode question?

>This guy is pretty smart, I wonder what he fails on in the interview process?

Smart interviewers hire who are as smart or smarter than them. Mediocre interviewers generally hire people who are worse off than them. The vast majority of interviewers out there are either mediocre or terrible.

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

GarnetFloride wrote: post #685

It looks like we are in a hiring dark ages. Barely anyone can remember how to actually hire someone. Just this weekend I was talking to an electrical engineer who recently retired. He told his company that he wanted to retire FIFTEEN years ago. They never were able to find a replacement. Not that they didn't try. They hired senior engineers but they couldn't do the job. They hired grads right out of school but none o…

>Yet companies are saying they can't find anyone to hire.

They don't pay much, do they?

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

vsgherzi wrote: post #195

i find myself mostly agreeing here. I am still very new into my carrier so trying to avoid being jaded. What's the solution for people like me that want a new position? Get good? Connect more?

Unfortunately here are no solutions, the game is rigged. There are only long term solutions spanning generations (so ideally your parents should have worked it out for you).

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

deterministic wrote: post #966

I don't know. I have been trying to hire an experienced C++ developer for 6+ months and the market seems to be dry. And we don't play stupid question games when interviewing. Candidates are asked to review and find bugs in 2 pages of really bad C++ code. And to walk us through how they would solve a more high level production problem. I get plenty of CVs from Python or Java developers who thinks that knowing Python o…

Why don't you hire the Python or Java developers and have them learn on the job?

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

Xen9 wrote: post #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 le…

Mostly good points.

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Post by Tao3300 »

helicalmix wrote: post #946
solidsnack9000 wrote: post #931

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the McKinsey parable?

https://www.nycp.com/elements/HA1/1345 Basically, in business and life, if you're too in love with craftsmanship of a specific function, but can't relate that well to the general goal, you're more of a liability than an asset.

I noticed the third stonecutter wasn't doing jackshit.

Re: Panic at the Job Market

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Post by Xen9 »

jarsin wrote: post #673
Xen9 wrote: post #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 le…

I couldn't imagine being homeless and sane. Not because of the crime and the elements, but because of the sheer boredom of life without money. Trading 8 hours a day for twenty years to permanently avoid that boredom really isn't that bad.

I think today one can do heck more than anyone has ever had been able to do; but this is very personal.

I could spend literally billion years on ThinkPad programming. ALSO this makes me feel extremely sad, for collective species of humanity, will miss allowing this opportunity. That is, instead of collective focus on enabling ourselves, least our successors (!), to live forever, we are dying because of lack of adaptiveness to the technology.

I will tell that I am certain 8 hours a day for 20 years will sort of leave you permanently disabled to point where even acid may not save you.

ALSO, beware that the ones wanting that you get buying their products want you exactly in your comments mindset.

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Post by deanahelfa »

cryptica wrote: post #538
bmitc wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideration your particular profile or the contributions you can make. This is really key. I have applied for jobs before, and then get questions like: "what's your experience with C++ or advanced graph algorithms?". Only that, none of that shows up in my profile or resume. But they act surprised and completely shrug off how a decade of software and other relev…

I found a job as a developer after about 10 months of applying for 100 jobs per month. It was very weird this time round. Especially weird considering that my resume is exceptional (lots of experience; corporate, startup, back end, front end, full stack, distributed systems, open source). The list of technologies that I'm competent with is long and, for most of them, I've got open source projects to prove my claims.…

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