Ask HN: Is Hacker News a good place to find a job in tech?

Thanks for sharing!

I read it somewhere on LinkedIn, can't find it tho. The best way to know if by asking.

BTW great post, maybe you could ask again?

This is correct and the general sentiment and experience among professionals.

Starting in late 2022, there's been a coordinated assault on industry by AI, both in terms of false marketing (execs thinking they can replace all their workers), and in terms of torturous interference (ghost candidates/ghost jobs) imposing cost on all candidates (and business alike).

It has demonstrated a number of important things some which are just bad for industry in the long-run like the resilience built-in to architecture by competent people may have been ill-thought out. People used to automate away the boring stuff, but when that boring stuff doesn't break for 2 years because of design, they can just let you go for that time. They lose out the value of becoming leaner, and coping with emergencies but few people after this are setting up fully resilient architecture. You can't pay enough for the demonstrated downside. There's been a critical loss of credibility on the industry by these actions.

I would reiterate and corroborate that LinkedIn and Indeed are worthless for hiring.

They do not curate the people they allow to advertise for jobs. There are many fake company spinoffs for non-existent roles that use the personalized CV data for something else. These fake companies lead you on, use AI to eat up your time, and often fail a more thorough background check into public records using OSINT. (i.e. quite a number have owners who were in obituaries with paperwork filed after their deaths).

For real data, the average cold-submit of CV to interview ratio has been around 1:1200 for LI/Indeed. These have been custom tailored for the positions, for an individual with a decade of experience as an expert generalist (Linux & Windows Ecosystems both on-prem and Cloud-tenant based), with deep expertise in helpdesk at all SLA tier levels, System/Network Admin roles/Principal Engineer, and DevOps/Architect roles.

Unable to find work in two years of massive unrelenting week-by-week effort, a good number of competent techies are now retraining. The brain drain on industry caused by this is massive and shouldn't be overlooked but appears to be.

Some might think to say this is just a bad economy. Tech has never been correlated with the driving factors of the economy. Interest rate increases, and financial crises have come and gone in the past with no observable change in tech. This is a disruption-based economy, and its unhinged.

This appears to be purely the work of factor market manipulation by oligopoly, to glut the factor market and stall the economy for profit. The same things that happen when you fire your people, raise prises, and lower production which often ends in a vicious doom cycle since lack of money in circulation lowers the amount of customers, which drives more firing in deflationary spirals which are common under regimes of money-printing given sufficient time.