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by anon50118810 4y ago
If you apply to a post with a qualified resume and don't get a response or get rejected for trivial reasons, and then see the job posted again the following month, that argues against the steady growth theory.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
In terms of price, I've been saying that parts of the developer market work like Veblen goods while I think you've been saying it's all ordinary goods. You started us down this road earlier, maybe unintentionally, by question
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by anon50118810 4y ago
It's possible that your work environment is set up to provide the necessary guidance even though it doesn't feel like handholding to you. At smaller companies you might just get a vague description of a task and be left on your ow
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by anon50118810 4y ago
We're talking about different ends of the market. You're talking about the high end where sought-after workers get multiple competitive offers and big raises from switching jobs frequently. In that case a hiring downturn means les
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing exactly but the tech market of literally walking down the street and offering to help random businesses for $7.25 an hour is so far from HN hiring, or really any salaried tech hiring, that I'm
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm someone who is indeed struggling to find a job, and in my case salary has little to do with it since so far I've been filtered before that's been an issue. There's actually no way to compete on price even if I wanted
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Also for anyone looking to draw conclusions here, remember that the HN crowd including the hiring thread is a very small slice of the tech industry generally, and for most people you only need to find one job for your job search to be over.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
A mental model for disaster here is tenure-track hiring in academia. Almost every school down to your least prestigious 4-year state university hires its faculty from the same top 50 or so places. All the graduates from the thousands of oth
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by anon50118810 4y ago
My own experience is that employers are picky. See my recent discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33596779 . Lots of divergent experiences there but the general consensus seemed to be that the market is great f
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by anon50118810 4y ago
The problem is downstream effects. If tons of employers pause hiring because they're hoping to get FAANG alumni for cheap, maybe because they read articles like this one, that will cause disruptions in the market. It may eventually wor
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Most of the listings require past experience with hardware stuff, not just CS fundamentals. I'm seeing very little interest in hiring someone like an experienced React developer who just got laid off from FAANG. There's a big diff
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Are you speaking from experience? Almost all of the jobs at the page you linked are either not in the U.S. or require hardware education or experience. Most are not remote. Could you please describe the actual steps and timeline for, say, a
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by anon50118810 4y ago
OP will probably feel a lot more insecure as the new person at a new company than they do at their existing company where they've already proven themselves and own multiple projects.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Many of us know this but since OP is junior, I'll just make it clear that severance is not normally guaranteed in the U.S. Maybe you have a contract or other paperwork that says otherwise but typically you can be walked out the door at
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by anon50118810 4y ago
If OP is young, like in their early 20s, then this is the time to focus on career. They have lots of energy and their age won't be held against them as a junior. Most of their social peers will be moving around constantly and uninteres
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Are you currently working as a junior frontend developer? If so, your goal should be to become more valuable to the place where you're working now. You want to build up a reasonably long tenure at your current job, show a history of pr
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by anon50118810 4y ago
If OP is interviewing externally then I wouldn't bother asking for this. They probably don't even have a formal scale or rubric, or if they did they wouldn't share them with an outside job candidate.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
My recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33596779 was intended to push back on this sort of rosy outlook. I suspect companies that struggle to hire have basic issues like a complicated or invasive applicati
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Did the person do anything specific during the interview process that suggested the problems you ended up having? Just thinking someone is "odd" can be the result of, as you say, bias.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Not to make you feel worse, but falling asleep at work can be caused by a health issue, for example sleep apnea. In the future I would recommend approaching this with your employee as a health issue first rather than as a laziness issue. Ma
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by anon50118810 4y ago
It depends on who you're talking to and what you ask. An IC interviewer's hands might be tied for some questions for legal or other reasons no matter how confident you are. Some questions are okay though, for example if you ask ab
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I strongly recommend against telling them a made-up deadline or talking about the rest of your job search at all unless you have a firm offer in hand from someone else. Employers often ask questions if you bring up your job search and then
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Not to make you feel bad, but it feels like poor form to ask how you did in an interview at the end of the interview itself. If the person you're talking to is just some random IC then you might be putting them in a tough spot if they
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I don't know much about how hiring works at Amazon, but for most employers, at this point you should just forget about it and move on. Two emails in a week is at the very edge of crossing into pushy or desperate. Of course there are al
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Ask HN: Have you had success contacting an employer who's turned you down?
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by anon50118810 4y ago
You'll just need to accept my self-assessment, or not. "Desperate" is a funny word. In another comment I compared this to buying milk when you need it. Maybe some people wouldn't call that desperate. This all highlights
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by anon50118810 4y ago
If the question is irrelevant or about unimportant trivia then it's a bad signal to use to reject people. An extreme example would be rejecting any candidate who fails to call a coin flip correctly.
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're saying I'm lying, all I can say is I've spent plenty of time interviewing on the hiring side. If you don't believe me then what are we even talking about? I agree that tech interviews are firs
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by anon50118810 4y ago
Often when people talk about customizing applications, they mean rewriting your existing resume in a way that mirrors the job listing but without actually lying. Whether this is worth it or not depends on the situation, for example I unders
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by anon50118810 4y ago
I'm sure they are good jobs, but if they need enterprise skills I don't have or if they don't meet my essential requirements, then it's not worth it for me to apply. I expect enterprise employers are less forgiving to ca

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