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Re:Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how ar... by nelsoch on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:45PM (#35644386)
I have an intimate familiarity with a wide breadth of both hardware and software. Working on pre-production products and supporting post-production to customers has required us to be flexible to new requests, per contract.

My current salary is really low for the industry- I've been willing to take paycuts so that I can provide, so I've applied to such positions. But I still get turned down.

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Re:Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how ar... by deely3 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:23PM (#35645768)
> I have an intimate familiarity with a wide breadth of both hardware and software.

Broadness of this statement force fear into my soul.

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Re:Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how ar... by nelsoch on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:36PM (#35645916)
The ability to be a human swiss army knife has allowed me to survive all the waves of layoffs(publicly-noticed and otherwise) up till now. When I was a stand-in manager interviewing people a year ago- I was told afterwards that my questions were too intense for what they were _then_ looking for. At that point, it got me wondering why they were setting the bar so low when I was previously being grilled and nearly passed.
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