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Looking for a Job Is Tough

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184 points skaplich | 7 comments | 14 Nov 24 01:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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noobermin ◴[14 Nov 24 14:10 UTC] No.42136260[source]▶
Sometimes I feel like you guys live in alternative universe. Nothing about the "bad" interview sounded too atypical. Sure it's annoying, but not uncommon enough to be exceptional.

I don't mean to discount anyone's unpleasantness but you'd be surprised how much worse the rest of the world is.

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1. wavemode ◴[14 Nov 24 14:16 UTC] No.42136300[source]▶
Software engineers are used to companies fighting over them. Now we're in a market where it's normal to have lots of experience yet be unemployed for months. So it's a shock for many (though not atypical when compared to plenty of other fields of knowledge work, as you note).
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2. tartoran ◴[14 Nov 24 15:09 UTC] No.42136890[source]▶
How about ghost jobs? This is a newish phenomena and wonder if it affects other sectors than IT.
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3. ghaff ◴[14 Nov 24 15:21 UTC] No.42137032[source]▶
Yeah, months between professional jobs has historically been completely normal if you couldn't interleave continue working and job searching. The meme (even if exaggerated) of rage-quitting a software job on Monday, sending out some emails, and having a few higher-paying offers by the end of the week is a complete aberration.

(Oh, and historically in many cases, it might also have involved moving across the country.)

I was talking to multiple people at an event fairly recently and there was general consensus that tech was in a "weird" place right now relative to the past decade or so.

4. Izkata ◴[14 Nov 24 17:35 UTC] No.42138724[source]▶
Or the past? I wasn't around back then, but I've heard the 2001 recession was the same.
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5. ghaff ◴[14 Nov 24 17:42 UTC] No.42138821[source]▶
I got really lucky even if my comp was pretty mediocre for a number of years. But it was pretty much nuclear winter and many people (not just developers) left the tech industry.
6. wyclif ◴[15 Nov 24 01:14 UTC] No.42143047[source]▶
Very much a new-ish thing but quite pervasive. I see it all the time. Massive amounts of jobs are being posted to drive competition or to make the company look like they are growing, but there's no intention to hire anyone.
7. z3ncyberpunk ◴[20 Nov 24 07:40 UTC] No.42191593[source]▶
? ghost jobs have been a phenomenon for years.