[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How is your job search going? (January 2025)
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Ask HN: How is your job search going? (January 2025)
I've been pretty depressed trying to find a job recently, so I'm
wondering how it's going for you guys. Wanna share your success
story? Or are you struggling too and need to vent? This is the
place. _Who is hiring?_ https:
//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575537 _Who wants to be hired?_
https: //news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575535 _Freelancer?
Seeking freelancer?_ https: //news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575536
Author : notpushkin
Score : 25 points
Date : 2025-01-02 17:27 UTC (5 hours ago)
| chistev wrote:
| Not great so far.
|
| I've applied to about 5 jobs on Upwork and the clients still
| haven't even hired anyone.
|
| The year is just starting, hopeful still.
| giantg2 wrote:
| I have a job, but it's in a terrible department. I've been
| actively looking and posting internally. I've been looking
| externally too, but haven't posted externally.
|
| I've been looking for over a year and there have been extremely
| few internal postings around my level/role. External postings in
| my area seem to be mostly garbage, both in the sense that they
| aren't actually hiring and also the ones who are have terrible
| culture or pay.
|
| Over the past year, I've probably interviewed for 6 internal
| roles, most in the past 6 months. I've declined 2 of the postions
| due their team being even worse than my current one. I have one
| that I did well on and could result in a double promotion. I
| should find out about that soon, but I'm really not hopeful. I'm
| surprised they even took me as a candidate given I'm 2 grades
| below it.
|
| It seems like it's picking up internally at least. Maybe that
| will translate to more external jobs next.
| grugagag wrote:
| > I've declined 2 of the postions due their team being even
| worse than my current one.
|
| What's your criteria to determine that? Is it just insider
| knowledge from those departments or do you systematically go
| over a checklist?
| giantg2 wrote:
| No checklist, it's based on what they tell me about their
| systems.
|
| One interview was supposed to be for a dev role. It turns out
| it was for a test automation engineer for a testing only team
| on a program. I've seen how those testing only teams get
| treated in my org when you have a whole program throwing code
| at you to test. You obviously aren't doing TDD, and good luck
| getting good requirements or access to the business SMEs.
| Hard pass.
|
| Another was for a dev role for Python and some work for a new
| Angular UI. I got into the interview and they're talking
| about Go... which wasn't listed anywhere in the posting. And
| that Angular work... it's going to be React. Their
| explaination was that they just didn't update the posting
| (lazy fuck, wasting everyone's time and the company's money).
| Then they went on to tell me they didn't really have tests
| and they aren't thinking about using a CMS for the UI. So
| they can't even create a valid posting and just shrug at
| common best practices that are missing. This isn't a startup
| but a mature company in a regulated industry. Decline.
| j-scott wrote:
| Started prepping/interviewing in Oct after reading this post:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41402581
|
| Secured interviews with Facebook, Databricks, Snowflake, and
| Stripe (3 referrals, 1 recruiter reach out).
|
| Bombed the FB phone screen due to nerves/first interview of the
| cycle. Completed the remaining three loops by December, and got
| offers from Databricks and Snowflake (Stripe went on two week
| holiday break and hasn't gotten back to me yet).
|
| Accepted the Databricks offer!
|
| Happy to talk about practice/process (within the limits of the
| interview NDAs)!
| silenced_trope wrote:
| Are you in the Bay Area? Do you know if Meta requires all
| employees to commute to their S. Bay campus?
|
| I have a recruiter pestering me from them. I'm open to Meta but
| not commuting. If their SF office is open though I'd consider
| an on-site role.
| Ancalagon wrote:
| Is the meta interview process still primarily a leetcode
| gauntlet?
| giantg2 wrote:
| Who the fuck is making you sign NDAs just to interview? That
| seems absurd for most roles/places.
| DidYaWipe wrote:
| I don't even really bother anymore. It's such a giant fraud and
| time-suck.
|
| We all know that society is propped up by people going to work
| and doing nothing much of value. But now the do-nothingness
| pervades even the recruiting stage. It's such an empty faff. WTF
| are they doing? Why bother? I guess automation makes it cost-free
| to churn out bullshit job posts and waste our time endlessly;
| there's no human cost to the perpetrators.
|
| It really does make you wonder about the collapse of our society.
| arkensaw wrote:
| > We all know that society is propped up by people going to
| work and doing nothing much of value
|
| I don't disagree that there are lots of companies out there
| doing essentially pointless work and paying high salaries to
| people who do very little all day. Mostly in the B2B space. But
| is it accurate to say society itself is propped up by these
| roles?
| brainfog wrote:
| I can't help but feel like I lucked into easy mode given the
| general consensus that everything sucks right now. Applied to 10
| places (mix of FAANG and small startups) after taking a year off
| from work. Heard back from 5, somehow got offers from all 5 and
| am starting at one of them next month.
|
| It took a fair bit of prep to get back into things - especially
| when it comes to system design interviews - but otherwise
| everything went fine. Really enjoyed how some companies are
| trying non-leetcode approaches lately like code review and
| debugging sessions.
| mancerayder wrote:
| Which geographical market? Were you nervous after the time off?
|
| I'm reading people who have been continually employed taking
| forever to find jobs.
| hu3 wrote:
| I went from zero monthly LinkedIn messages from recruiters to 2
| in December. So one could say infinitely better?
|
| But realistically these contacts have little chance to
| materialize into a solid, well-paying job.
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