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Looking for a Job Is Tough

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184 points skaplich | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 01:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source
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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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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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1. 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.