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Looking for a Job Is Tough

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184 points skaplich | 3 comments | 14 Nov 24 01:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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thw09j9m ◴[14 Nov 24 03:08 UTC] No.42132752[source]▶
This is the toughest market I've ever seen. I easily made it to on-sites at FAANG a few years ago and now I'm getting resume rejected by no-name startups (and FAANG).

The bar has also been raised significantly. I had an interview recently where I solved the algorithm question very quickly, but didn't refactor/clean up my code perfectly and was rejected.

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1. ericmcer ◴[14 Nov 24 17:21 UTC] No.42138532[source]▶
Anecdotal but I felt it was worst during the mass layoffs in late 2022/early 2023. It has been very slowly recovering since then.

The late 2020 period was the absolute best time though. I got multiple offers almost instantly, and after I signed on it felt like the org was bloated with engineers just fiddling away on meaningless projects.

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2. wyclif ◴[15 Nov 24 01:10 UTC] No.42143028[source]▶
That's always the effect of free money.
3. sertraline ◴[15 Nov 24 08:53 UTC] No.42145070[source]▶
This is not surprising. The companies received grants during covid lockdowns, so they started listing a lot of fake jobs. When the money dried up the layoffs followed, which was an expected outcome. Media does not let people know about the grants and presents everything in such light that it seems like the market is getting absolutely destroyed, while in reality it only slightly declined.

The bigger problem are HRs employed by big companies who autoreject every application and take no responsibility for doing this.