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A list of all the great engineers laid off. Help them land on their feet
- psychometry 7y agoGreat tool if you're laid off and your name is first in the list according to whatever arbitrary sorting function is being used here.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoAt a glance it looks like it's sorted first by layoff date descending, then alphabetically on name.
- ISL 7y ago<changes name to AAAAAISL>
- fao_ 7y agoAndrew Alexander Anthony Aadien Arthur? edit: I know this is nonserious, but hell, if you wanted to do that and you live in the UK, you only have to fill out a deed poll and get it signed by someone :)
- exdsq 7y agoSurely you mean Aadien Alexander Andrew Anthony Artur? ;)
- fao_ 7y agoSuddenly I'm getting a throwback to the "Aaron A Aaron" scene from Hot Fuzz
- LucasBrandt 7y agohttps://youtu.be/pT6hEQ-ktNQ https://youtu.be/pT6hEQ-ktNQ
- cafard 7y agoLong ago I worked in support on a government contract where the first name in the email directory was Alan Aaron. There was no such person, but the account got plenty of email because it was so easy to include by mistake. The COTR's staff would go in now and then to clear it out.
- james-skemp 7y agoI know of an organization that included a fake person on sold lists so that they could determine if the list was being used within the bounds of the contract. And it was useful for testing. Similar reason for Alan Aaron?
- mywittyname 7y agoI was thinking Maybe Aaron Aable.
- maxnoe 7y ago> <changes name to AAAAAISL> Welcome to the world of being first author of a publication in particle physics. A colleague of mine took the name of is wife to gain the A as first letter.
- BGZq7 7y agoTo me it looks like it's sorted by company (but not alphabetically), then by job function (also not alphabetically), then by first name alphabetically.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoAh, interesting. You are right that it's not sorted by layoff date first -- I thought that because the Opendoor layoffs were 4/16 and the Uber ones 3/26, but then there are some ones with no date from Uber included. Maybe it's by Company with companies with more recent layoffs first? Why am I looking at this lol.....
- kureikain 7y agoMaybe we can randomize the ordering?
- supernova87a 7y agoMy name is Aaron A. Aaronson!
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoYou did good, kid.
- supernova87a 7y agoTah.
- fao_ 7y agoI get why it uses LinkedIn, but that's not something that represents my actual CV or skill level. Most of the stuff I've done I don't really know (thanks to their abysmal and dark-pattern-based UI) how to put it on there in the first place.
- dudul 7y agoNot gonna defend LinkedIn, their dark patterns are well documented and awful. But don't you have basically a free form input text for each job description where you can put whatever you want?
- fao_ 7y agoRight, but these are projects I've done on my own time. My job history (because of prior burnout that I've recovered from) doesn't describe what I am capable of now, and the things I've done to improve my skill. How do I add: - That I reverse engineered an android app, fully replicated their API and engaged in successful responsible disclosure for the service? - The Lisp with the ELF header I've handwritten in assembler? - The wrapper language for HTML I then built my website and a business website for family with (In pure HTML+CSS, they aren't React projects that will get me hired but, that framework would have been overpowered for the client's needs. Also it's worth stating that it's not just a 'website for family', but the person is very qualified and accomplished at their artwork and the website is the major platform for showcasing their work). - The robust file tagging system I worked on. - The time I dug into the function call hierarchy of the linux kernel because one of the setattr family of functions was passing back an undocumented return code, and the subsequent patch to the man-doc project I contributed. These sound rhetorical but they're very much not, if you or anyone else knows a way to accomplish this please comment!
- eugenekolo 7y agoThere's a free form introduction page, as well as extracurriculars, as well as you can simply make a job called "Independent".
- FartyMcFarter 7y agoIs there a list of companies that are still hiring (and haven't hugely slowed down hiring like Google?).
- hamandcheese 7y agoI started a job search just before shelter-in-place took hold. I think most well-funded startups that aren’t obviously directly impacted are hiring as usual, but that’s anecdotal and based on a pretty small sample size.
- Consultant32452 7y agoMy anecdata is a fortune 500 financial institution, DOJ, and DOD contractors. Finance is in a hiring freeze, we dropped some contractors. DOJ and DOD contractors looking for multiple candidates each.
- zhvihti 7y agoCoinbase is still actively hiring: https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions
- xutopia 7y agoShopify is hiring. https://www.shopify.com/careers https://www.shopify.com/careers
- megaserg 7y agoHiring freezes and non-freezes: https://candor.co/hiring-freezes/ https://candor.co/hiring-freezes/
- zuhayeer 7y agohttps://levels.fyi/still-hiring https://levels.fyi/still-hiring
- samfisher83 7y agoSaw a bunch of Amazon layoffs. I know they regularly hire and fire people, but this seems like a really shitty time to do that to people.
- Aperocky 7y agoI saw 19/6563 and only 6 of them are software engineers. I wouldn't say that is a bunch in this time, more like regular process.
- amznthrowaway5 7y agoYeah, 5-10% of the workforce is fired yearly at Amazon due to forced attrition from stack ranking.
- jwilber 7y agoThe about claims this list is for covid19 layoffs? I work for Amazon, and (afaik) we’re not doing covid-related layoffs right now, so it seems a bit disingenuous to use this list if you were laid off for PIP/dev plan or other reasons. That said, the market is in a rough place right now, so I can’t blame anyone for doing what they can, but yeah.
- nhumrich 7y agoNo location at all? Isnt that fairly important?
- mawburn 7y agoIt's on there. You have to scroll.
- mywittyname 7y agoWe're still hiring! I passed this link off to our head of talent acquisition.
- TrainedMonkey 7y ago> Where is this sourced from? - We rely on a combination of verified sources at companies, submissions/tips, tech blogs, as well as public lists. If I am reading this right, some (most?) of these people might not even know they are listed on this site? I am assuming all of the info is already available since linked in profile is required, but this is still a bit creepy.
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- warent 7y agoI agree that it is weird if it's coming from a secondary source rather than the engineer themselves. It's a violation of their privacy. Getting data from public lists, blogs, etc seems perfectly fine.
- kzrdude 7y agoIt's an incredibly naive project. I can see that it probably has been done with good intentions, and that's blindsided them. All of the people in Berlin, Germany on the list can fly right off, probably a GDPR violation to list them.
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- supernova87a 7y agoI'm more interested in tracking the companies that have laid off (and don't have an ability to help hire individuals), so I'm just watching https://layoffs.fyi/ https://layoffs.fyi/ instead of this page. That is more geared to following the trends in layoffs. If anyone knows other compilations I'd be interested to know!
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- downerending 7y agoCould we also have a list of all the crappy engineers laid off? :-)
- sicromoft 7y agoAnyone can add themself to the list, so those will be in there too. (:
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- sicromoft 7y agoIt's not a list of "great" engineers. It's just a list of engineers. Anyone can add themself to the list.
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- ChrisMarshallNY 7y agoThere's a lot of companies that won't come out of this, but some will, and they'll be in the position of having to hire again. I'm sure that a few companies may have tried some way to keep their furloughed employees "close to the back door," so they can get them back, when things open up, but a lot of companies will be in the position of having to start over from scratch. I saw an ad for a "Senior React Native" developer, in the SF area, for $25,000 -> $80,000. Oof. Different world, indeed.
- jeffrallen 7y agoHow very convenient that you can blacklist companies like Uber with a simple click of a checkbox.