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Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
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- mertleee 11mo ago[dead]
- OgsyedIE 11mo agohttps://archive.is/NvSXc https://archive.is/NvSXc . Also, shocking to see no mention of the investment thesis, let alone critique of it.
- AnimalMuppet 11mo agoThanks for the link. What do you mean by the "investment thesis"? Would you clarify?
- OgsyedIE 11mo agoThe investment thesis in AI is that the decline in consumer spending in the other sectors of the economy won't matter when the consumers cease to be a significant participant in the economy in the near term: that moving investment away from the activity in agriculture, transportation, goods and services, etc., is rational because those sectors are soon to be obsolete when their customers buying power and long term capacity to produce buying power is sucked away. Think of the promise of AGI as a promise of billions of tireless immigrants with PhDs who outcompete the other ethnicities in the labor market. It's the same reason people stopped investing in Detroit-based things years ahead of the industry pullout.
- bequanna 11mo agoI’m not sure I follow. So, are you saying that wealth will become completely concentrated at the top and the rest of us are obsolete, out of work and broke? That seems unlikely. What is the point of an economy if there is no one who is actually able to consume?
- OgsyedIE 11mo agoThere will not be no one who is able to consume. The investment thesis is that the investment classes' servant robot armies will be doing trillions of USD of consumption, mostly in metals, munitions, chips, etc. I don't agree with the thesis, but that is what the thesis is.
- cal_dent 11mo agomore importantly, good luck to any country that has to deal with an environment full of huge swathes of people festering with the anger and nihilism that comes from going from something to nothing...not for me
- int_19h 11mo agoThe ones who own the robots will be doing the consumption. Of course, this all implies that the rest of us will just sit and starve quietly. Somehow I don't think that's likely.
- actionfromafar 11mo agoNo, we need entertainment, potato chips, some drugs and the mandated degree of access to contraceptives. I'm sure OpenAI can calculate the optimal levels of each.
- int_19h 11mo agoYes, the time-honored strategy of keeping the poi holloi fed and entertained just enough to prevent riot, but not anymore. Long-term, it usually fails because the elites become too greedy and too complacent because they haven't seen what a large scale riot looks like, and try to squeeze too much. Then things blow up somewhere and there's a mad scramble to prevent it elsewhere by making concessions (witness all the improvements in labor rights in the West after the Russian revolution).
- johnnyanmac 11mo agoAnd the current reaction is to make entertainment and potato chips more expensive, and to ban contraceptives and drugs. The only saving grace of this administration's cruelty is its stupidity. It wants to rule like Rome over slaves, but didn't learn how the rulers kept the populace from uprising and rebelling.
- juujian 11mo agoInvestment thesis?
- chasd00 11mo agoFtfa (the part I could read) “ growth is buoyed by an exuberant stockmarket and artificial-intelligence investment, while ordinary Americans languish” Black Friday sales set records and it not even cyber Monday. If Americans are languishing then shouldn’t holiday spending be down?
- port11 11mo agoOthers have pointed out the brackets really buying, but I'd also argue that people deferring their purchases to a period of sales is generally not a good thing.
- seanmcdirmid 11mo agoShouldn’t every year be a record considering population growth and inflation?
- eru 11mo agoYou could look at inflation adjusted per-capita sales, of course.
- seanmcdirmid 11mo agoYa, when I ask Gemini: While there isn't a definitive inflation-adjusted per-capita number for 2025, recent data indicates that overall sales growth was outpaced by inflation, meaning consumers likely bought fewer items. Total Black Friday spending was up, but the average number of items purchased declined. For instance, Salesforce reported total spending was up 3% but order volume was down 2%, with average selling prices climbing 7%. ... Per-capita sales: The increase in spending is largely driven by higher prices, meaning the actual volume of goods purchased per person likely decreased compared to the previous year, even with higher total spending, says The New York Times.
- philamonster 11mo agoI didn't buy shit on purpose this weekend, like every year and like most weekends. Some people do that. I wish more would.
- glimshe 11mo agoNo. Source: Betteridge's law of headlines
- Waterluvian 11mo agoBettridge’s Law of Bettridge’s Law: there will always be someone in the comments section mentioning Bettridge’s Law.
- Esophagus4 11mo agoWe’re really just tired of news slowly morphing into Buzzfeed style clickbait, and this is our only outlet to complain about it. Other annoying headlines: “This is why interest rates are so high” “What I learned about X from one month doing Y”
- tavavex 11mo agoI'm not seeing how this article is clickbait of any kind. Betteridge's Law really only works for articles that manufacture a provocative question out of nowhere to attract readership, and then have to sheepishly back down in the article body because obviously it's not true. But this article is formulated as a question because it has genuine speculation about the future that nobody is quite sure about. It has points for both sides of the argument. There's no Yes/No answer here. How else would you format the title of such an article?
- Esophagus4 11mo agoDid you read the article? The author admits that the answer to his own question is no. Which, again, affirms Betteridge’s Law. > A more plausible explanation for the present weak patch, and for companies’ reluctance to hire, is Trumpian uncertainty. That is now beginning to ease. The chaos of Mr Trump’s tariff roll-out seems to be receding. Deportations and changes to visa rules will remain disruptive, but businesses are starting to adapt. Although 2026 is unlikely to be a year of calm and clarity for America, it may well be a bit less frenzied. That would boost the labour market. American workers’ decade-long hot streak may have longer to run. To paraphrase his conclusion: no. Things are soft, but in general, probably fine for 2026. This is what I am saying - I’m sick of seeing sensational, clickbait, disaster-porn headlines, especially when the author timidly backs off and plays both sides once they have your attention. It’s such a lack of journalistic integrity.
- rhinoceraptor 11mo agoFrom my experience, it's grim at the moment for software developer jobs. I got laid off in August and it's been rough. I'm in my early 30s so I can't compare it to 2008, but I've been laid off before and I've never seen it this bad.
- jdiff 11mo agoIt's grim everywhere, for everything, all at once. I haven't been able to find work as a graphic designer, motion designer, web designer, web developer, software developer, and a large variety of retail jobs. Been on the job hunt since May, all I've been able to find is a part time position at The Home Depot.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoI wonder if it has anything to do with all of the 10-200% taxes we've levied on random things.
- csomar 11mo agoThis started before the tariffs, so no direct link. Interest rates are more to blame.
- bequanna 11mo agoOffshoring (India + LATAM) with a side of h1b. Offshoring is by far the biggest culprit. Plenty of Jr/Mid roles hiring…but not US based.
- jdlshore 11mo agoOffshoring has been a thing for decades. Seriously, Yourdon wrote a doom-and-gloom book about it in the 90s. It was called “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer,” published 1992. Then in 1996, he wrote “Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer.” The software industry is extremely fad-driven. During the pandemic, the fad was to hire programmers. That created a lot of busywork and coordination jobs that didn’t contribute to the bottom line. Then Musk bought Twitter, laid off a bunch of folks, and things kept running. So the trend became “cut the fat.” In fairness, there actually was fat to cut. Now boards are in cost-cutting mode and fantasizing about AI, so the pendulum has swung back towards offshoring. But that cost-cutting focus is going to lead to stagnation and self-cannibalization. Somebody’s going to buck the trend, have a splashy success, and the herd will trample back in the other direction.
- nextworddev 11mo agoIt’s interesting bc I still see mid level (7 yoe) developers getting jobs with no issues. Lots of dispersion of difficulty depending on speciality as well
- juujian 11mo agoCould it be regional?
- joshdavham 11mo agoIn which part of the world are you seeing this? In the bay area?
- nextworddev 11mo agoSF and NY
- johnnyanmac 11mo agoSeems like those are the only hubs kind of hiring. The few recruiter messages I get these day seem to be from there (despite saying I'm not inerested in re-locating). And even those are way down. Los Angles simply seems dead from my experience the last 2 years.
- pm90 11mo agoYes, smaller firms and startups are still hiring aggressively.
- nextworddev 11mo agoNot just. I know some average joes that landed at Google, Meta, and DoorDash recently
- khannn 11mo agoThe Economist peddling doom n gloom IN THIS ECONOMY?
- arnonejoe 11mo agoIt seems we are nearing the bottom of the business cycle. I lived through 2001 and 2008. Both were worse than now. It will get better.
- bequanna 11mo agoHow do we know this is the bottom?
- arnonejoe 11mo agoYou don’t know until unemployment and GDP numbers are released. Generally when the fed starts making successive rate cuts, the economy is doing poorly. Since 1953 10 out of 11 recessions happened when republicans held power. So maybe that is also why I think we have a little way to go before things get better. I’m not sure why that is and I don’t want to start a political debate. Things will get better. They always do.
- XorNot 11mo agoYes if only the US still released those numbers...
- forgotoldacc 11mo agoThings do tend to get better, but the time scale can vary. It's hard to tell whether we're deep into a recession, or we're just starting to walk into a depression. You never really know which it is in the first year.
- mullingitover 11mo ago> Since 1953 10 out of 11 recessions happened when republicans held power I used to think this was because the party that represents the ruling class didn't know what they were doing. Now I think these economic collapses and ensuing fire sales are not accidents, they know exactly what they're doing.
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- cal_dent 11mo agoI think there's something quite interesting (well to me anyway) where if you go by the internet, there is this bloodbath (slight exaggeration perhaps but feels like that) in jobs out in the US, UK, Aus and major European countries (the volume of anecdotes & complaints would suggest a significant downturn in employment) but out in the official data, and less so but still true in the real world, things are still bobbing along. Not great guns but still ok. The interesting thing is how much is internet chatter a leading signal for this thing now than in previous cycles? Outside of the unique circumstances of covid, we've never had, to my knowledge, a notable downturn when social media, and all the chatter it generates, has been so prominent or mass engaged. How much of it is just internet noise vs canary in the coal mine stuff. Who knows? But curious to find out in coming months/year
- epistasis 11mo agoAt least in the US we haven't had official data for quite some time. The BLS lost its chief because of "bad numbers" The numbers we do have show significantly worse jobs numbers compared to prior years. We might get data again, maybe not, but the US government has had an internal revolution, and it's doubtful we will have data as good as in the past, and it's quite likely that any bad news will be deeply buried.
- reactordev 11mo agoBTC would agree with you. It’s nose diving.
- epistasis 11mo agoSince its a Sunday night during a holiday weekend without any big breaking news, I would suspect that's probably just a bunch of people that had automated sales at $90k, or something similar.
- reactordev 11mo agoLove that HODL optimism. Looking at the longer charts there seems to be support around $80k so maybe. This could just be holiday shopping. The timing of economics with this though has me worried the support will falter causing a sell off and Monday’s bell will be a bloodbath.
- Finnucane 11mo ago"We seem to have no clue, but we can get an article out of it anyway"--the Economist.
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- jswelker 11mo agoThe author must have written the headline as a legitimate question to the audience because they certainly did not make much effort to answer it in the article.
- Esophagus4 11mo agoBetteridge’s law! > Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
- jswelker 11mo agoIn this case it was more of a "Meh, maybe." Which IMO is worse than Betteridge's Law.
- zerosizedweasle 11mo agoThis market is sick. =(
- PatMunch3551 11mo ago[dead]
- DANmode 11mo agoI hope so – how else am I going to find a great cofounder?! Mostly kidding.
- naveen99 11mo agoNo, because the only thing keeping the fed from lowering interest rates and juicing real estate and everything else is a strong labor market.
- sethops1 11mo agoAnd the fact that everybody knows real inflation is still high.
- yolo3000 11mo agoHow can inflation not be high in the US given increased tariffs, deportations and uncertainty
- johnnyanmac 11mo agoYou have it backwards. Layoffs these days increase stock value because everyone is hedging that bad job numbers will force the feds to lower interest rates. Something Powell has hesitated to do in order to keep inflation in check. It's a very screwed up incentive to be rewarded for breaking the system, but that's 2025 in a nutshell.
- jameslk 11mo ago> Layoffs these days increase stock value because everyone is hedging that bad job numbers will force the feds to lower interest rates. Layoffs generally cause stock prices to go up because of anticipated cost reduction/efficiency: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwab046 https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwab046 If you have some source to make the case that layoff-stock price change is correlated for a different reason these days, it would be interesting to read it. But I doubt anything has changed
- johnnyanmac 11mo ago>If you have some source to make the case that layoff-stock price change is correlated for a different reason these days, it would be interesting to read it. The phenomenon is pretty recent so there won't truly be any studies on it in a while. But look up "Jobless Boom". Here's a piece of what I'm talking about: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jobless-boom-ai-economy-labor-market-corporate-profits-layoffs/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jobless-boom-ai-economy-labor-m... >For much of 2025, the job market was described by economists as "no hire, no fire," meaning an environment where workers could count on job security even as hiring around the U.S. cooled. But conditions have changed, and the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate in both September and October, citing increasing risks to employment growth and with Fed Chair Jerome Powell noting that policymakers are closely watching layoff announcements by big employers. personally, I think the AI efficiencies are a smokescreen, but the point of how this job contraction is forcing he fed's hands is hard to ignore after some 2 years of holding rates steady.
- Avicebron 11mo agoThere is still half an hour until the tank, plenty of time to sell..
- pfisherman 11mo agoMy pet theory is that we are experiencing stagflation, but only people >70 years old have ever really experienced it before, so most people are just scratching their heads wondering how it’s possible that stocks keep going up (inflation) while jobs are disappearing (stagnation). I am most definitely not an economist, nor am I qualified to play one on tv.
- dragonwriter 11mo ago> My pet theory is that we are experiencing stagflation, but only people >70 years old have ever really experienced it before, so most people are just scratching their heads wondering how it’s possible that stocks keep going up (inflation) while jobs are disappearing (stagnation). We do not seem to be technically experiencing stagflation,ir really either half of it, on a national scale, as we appear to still be in a weak aggregate economic expansion and inflation, while higher than the 2% target, is fairly mild at around a 3% annualized rate [0], and, in any case, stocks going up is not inflation (unqualified inflation, which is the inflation part of stagflation, in consumer price inflation, not asset value inflation.) OTOH, we are in a very weak economy especially outside of the leading AI firms, and there are quite likely both wide regions and wide sectors of the economy which, considered alone, would be in recession, and while inflation is fairly mild, it is high for the last couple decades and being in near-recession conditions. So, for a lot of people, the experience is a something like stagflation (and there are lots of signs that the economic slowdown will continue alongside rising inflation.) [0] though as economic statistics are only available after the fact, either of these could have changed, but the real defining period for “stagflation” in the US is the 1973-1975 recession, years which saw a minimum of 6.2% inflation (the term was actually coined in the UK for conditions which saw a massive drop in GDP growth rate, fron 5.7% annually to 2.1% in successive years, but not an actual recession, alongside 4.8% inflation.)
- windward 11mo ago>we are in a very weak economy especially outside of the leading AI firms Isn't that part of the cause? It sucks up so much investment, there's nothing left for anything else. Or at least nothing without such perceived upside. Either they pull it off and you're replaced by AGI, or they fail to pull it off and you lose your job to the resulting economic implosion.
- AIorNot 11mo agoWell as a single datum: After I got laid off in late 2023 I had a devil of a time finding work (despite having AI experience) to the point my unemployment ran out - And I was 20 years as a dev and tech lead and full stack, (never had trouble finding work) including stints as a leading EM and CTO, I’ve been an industry award winning innovation lead,a digital studio director, switching tech stacks and cloud certs all my career..mentoring juniors and doing podcasts and writing white papers etc, but peanuts - nothing Getting ghosted by 25 year olds in interviews and doing rounds and rounds and leetcode and all that but no success- for example I had a 7 round interview with NBCUniversal in 2023 and then got ghosted (I probably doged a bullet since they had subsequent layoffs) a 12 month stint with nothing - we lost our savings as my wife got laid off too Since then I pivoted to AI and Gen AI startups- joining incubators and finally got some work or at least cofounded some AI startups- now money is tight and I dont have health insurance but at least I have a job… it sucks as a over 45 year old as I have so much experience but no one cares.. still dont have much grey hair so I can pass for 40 to get noticed No one stable is hiring or your resume just goes to a dead letter queue or is lost in ether or lost amid all the ai generated resumes out there - young ML and PHds and people under 40 seem to be getting work in Gen AI but thats about it networking is the only game left and most good recruiters I know got laid off too At least I’ve built up production experience in agents and context engineering RL, pytorch, langchain/LangGraph, RAG, KGa, etc python, BAML, LLM and LLMops to add to my years of full stack work
- maxnevermind 11mo agoWere you flexible with re-location or you were looking just at you current region or it is that bad no matter your flexibility?
- donatj 11mo agoThe number of just straight out NO's I've gotten has been surprising and disheartening. I've been a developer for 20 years and genuinely don't think I've gotten an outright "no" before this year. Usually just no response. I've gotten maybe eight or nine actual rejections this year. It's honestly worse, emotionally. Ideally I want a job outside my wheelhouse to learn and move forward, but it seems like no one these days is interested in any sort of training. There have been two gigs I was really excited about that seemed more-or-less exactly what I have spent the past decade doing and they've BOTH actually replied that they didn't think my skills were a good fit. I genuinely have zero idea what you're looking for if the literal perfect fit isn't it. Before COVID I would regularly apply for jobs, almost always get them, and decline largely to keep my interview skills fresh. This last year of looking has been the total opposite. I've applied for umpteen places, and gotten a little bit of email back and forth, and a single interview (it's in a couple days, wish me luck).
- pm90 11mo agoIts a little strange for the article to not mention how much of the "stock growth" and GDP growth is mostly due to unsustainable, large investments in Data centers. Its not clear if that will continue into 2026, and what will happen when it stops. My personal prediction is that, barring some kind of insurrection/revolution, Congress will flip in 2026 and force POTUS to back down on tariff nonsense, which will finally un-paralyze businesses which will resume capital investments and hiring. 2026 itself might be really rough though, if the AI bubble pops.
- ic_fly2 11mo agoI don’t know, I’m hiring and the candidates so far have not been impressive. Maybe that is restricted to my area / region but I got one am confused.
- forgotoldacc 11mo agoThat signifies that your company is not appealing to impressive candidates for some reason or another. Companies that offer good pay, some other great benefits in the place of good pay, or kind of okay pay but very interesting work have no trouble getting people, especially in today's market.
- DrProtic 11mo agoThat goes against the idea that impressive candidates have a difficulty finding a job.
- MikeNotThePope 11mo agoIf you're a stellar applicant, you can still get ghosted by simply having your CV at the bottom on the pile.
- forgotoldacc 11mo agoNo. Impressive candidates are applying to jobs that pay somewhat reasonably, even if it's below what they expect. If candidates who are desperate are still completely skipping over a company, that says something about that company.
- tarsinge 11mo agoI am also hiring, in Europe with very good work/life balance but modest salaries and like the parent I'm also not that impressed with candidates, so to me the other explanation is that candidates have a wildly incorrect estimation of what is a somewhat reasonable pay in 2025. The position with FAANG like salaries have reduced drastically. Companies paying 6 figures just to have the privilege to have an entry level developer with this then seen as magical skill of being able to type code was a dream that is over. Look at salaries of engineers in other industries, breaking 6 figures needs a lot of seniority, $150k is rarely heard of for ICs.
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- break_the_bank 11mo agoWe’re hiring software engineers, full stack (frontend leaning). Email me at gyani at tabtabtab dot ai if you are in London and looking for onsite roles.
- taylorhou 11mo ago996 - it's a global marketplace of talent and very few in America are willing to work 996. If you are, you either are the founder type or young and unshackled.
- j-bos 11mo agoI worked with what are effectively 996ers in software, they largely drag on projects because they value neither their own time nor anyone else's.
- DrPimienta 10mo agoThis is my experience as well. For a lot of these people, it's performative. Just kind of existing at work for 12 hours is "getting work done" to them, despite the fact it's life destroying for pretty much everyone that has an actual life to live. It's really disgusting and harms most people.
- johnnyanmac 11mo agoLabor laws in California make infeasible (for good reason). The kinds of jobs going into 996 won't pay enough for exempt status, so that's 32 hours of overtime a week.
- stuckinhell 11mo agoyou are 100% right. I know people don't want to hear this . . . but at my mega large corp, we recently laid off hundreds people who basically didn't do this.
- johnnyanmac 11mo ago>we recently laid off hundreds people who basically didn't do this. Did you give them a choice or simply say "we've moving most operations to China?"
- stuckinhell 10mo agono choice we simply looked at hours worked via remote tracking.
- UnreachableCode 11mo agoNot sure if it's been missed or I'm an anomaly. But as a senior level software engineer who graduated in the 10s, with a wealth of experience, I too (like the juniors who get reported on) am struggling to get a new job. Either I'm just not as good as I think I am, or the barrier is ridiculously high for the next type of job I'm trying to achieve (high paying, product focused developer).
- dizlexic 11mo agoMy experience is companies are hiring CS grads for helpdesk, and maybe eventually promoting them to what they went to school for. I'm a self-taught senior. At my current company have only ever been a developer, but everyone I work with started as help desk and got moved to development later. I know this is anecdotal, but they all have CS degrees. I think people still underestimate the glut in inexperienced CS grads we're working through rn.
- tenacious_tuna 11mo agoI learned recently our company has an informal policy to discourage hiring fresh grads, which would explain why I haven't seen any hires at the bottom of our grading scale. I'm one step above (though arguably I could be two up by experience, I misplayed my negotiations), but I kinda feel like I'm dangling off the edge.
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- dsmark 11mo ago730,000 H-1B holders within the U.S. Can we just cancel this program please?
- shagie 11mo agoWhy do you want to cancel French immersion teachers? https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=french+language+immersion+teacher&city=&year=2025 https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=french+language+immer... Or nurses? https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=registered+nurse&city=&year=2025 https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=registered+nurse&city... The problem isn't H-1B. It's H-1B dependent employers gaming the system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B-dependent_employer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B-dependent_employer https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/62c-h1b-dependent-employer https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/62c-h1b-depende...
- dsmark 11mo agoWage suppression
- shagie 11mo agoCould you elaborate on how wages of native French speaking language teachers are being suppressed? Or that nurses in North Dakota are not getting jobs because the hospital is going through the process of hiring a qualified nurse under the H-1B program? I'm not saying that the teachers or nurses are not underpaid - they should be paid more, but the ability for the organization to pay them more is often constrained by other factors (teacher salaries for public schools, medicare reimbursement rates for hospitals). Saying "no, we shouldn't hire them" doesn't mean that a qualified American teacher will show up or new nurses will go to Fargo to get a job. Rather, foreign language programs in schools will be discontinued and hospitals in rural areas will close (being unable to meet the required nurse to patient ratios). There are problems with the system. People on HN often forget that there are a lot of other professions outside of technology that make use of the H-1B when there is a genuine need. Unfortunately technology - and especially technology consultancies - have flooded the application process for the H-1B visas to the point where H-1B has become synonymous with Indian programmer working at a WITCH company. > Public Law 114–113, part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, imposed a fee of $4,000 on H-1B petitions [edit: for H-1B dependent employers] and $4,500 on L-1A and L-1B petitions. The additional H-1B fees would apply to all petitions postmarked on or after December 18, 2015, and until September 30, 2025. This apparently has expired. The proclamation "Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers" is of dubious footing. You know what would have been good with the budget bill (the previous Consolidated Appropriations Act was a budget bill signed by Obama)? Quadrupling the application fee for H-1B dependent employers and hiring auditors to make sure that the applicants are properly qualified, that there is a position open (not just a position on the bench at a consultancy) for the applicant to fill, that the position to be filled was attempted to be filled by a and that the employer is making full use of their existing employees (e.g. no one on the bench). This is something that is (was) there and can be regulated and audited and catch the problematic employers - not French teachers and nurses.
- nomendos 11mo agoI see hardest job market ever. Since 2023 I had ~dozen interviews and 0% up to offer pass rate (half fully passed interviews, with no offer at the end due to variety of cases like money change of mind, other candidates won, ghosting,..)! Up to recent couple years I had over 90% interview passing rate, even in dot com and 2010 (when I had 6 companies interview with 6 offers). I am 55y with rich experience vertically (from low level to high level) and horizontally (multimedia, high tech, many platforms and OS's, major programming languages and few good to pass hard leetcode like interviews). I am better than ever with my skills. (btw leetcode is "disease" and counterproductive the way it is used, I have to say that as that might be part of deeper explanation and I pass it majority of the times, although had few "walk on water" type that maybe only "Jesus of coding" could pass or maybe even he could not)
- codyklimdev 10mo agoI haven't been around for much (27 y.o. with 4 y.o.e.) but I've applied for probably 500 jobs in the past 6 months, and had maybe 4 interviews out of it. It's tough out here.
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- thereWasAFish 11mo agoHuh, the link now points to an article titled: > "Why worries about American job losses are overstated." Instead of the archived version. While the beginning of the article is the same, the last line in the preview differs: > Original: "...to support a weakening jobs market." > New: "...to support a weakening jobs market. Look closer, however, and much of the gloom seems to be overdone." Though I don't have a subscription to check the rest of the article.
- hzcker_na 10mo agono, but the purchasing power of americans is already lowering due to the taxes on imports introduced by donald trump, by chocking supply the demand has to be filled by fewer local american companies or the extra artifical cost will have to be passed onto american workers, the deportation of illegal immigrants will increase wages due to the decreased supply of workers, which could offset it.