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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by Varriount on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:02AM (#36903808)
I've had the best luck with recruiters that have contacted me directly on LinkedIn. Conversely, I've had zero luck with the recruiters that contact me via phone call.

My assumption is that this is because many of the latter are operating under the "if we get you hired we get XX% percent of your salary" model, and are thus inclined to submit as many applications as they can.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by noitpmeder on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:12AM (#36903875)
I think this is only really an option for some sub-spaces of tech.

As someone in a middling HFT shop my linkedin inbox is flooded with recruiter spam. But most of my friends in frontend work don't get any of this.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by Roark66 on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:02AM (#36905190)
There is definitely truth in this. I see lots of ads for senior full stack devs (and devops). Not so much for front end. I wonder why that is.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by _jesse on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:44AM (#36907545)
I think it's easier to get away with not having someone who specializes in front end and so a lot of companies just don't prioritize it. I think a lot of them also don't realize how much they're missing either, but I'm maybe a little biased because I specialize in front end, haha. I do think that this is a contributing factor to why so many websites and web apps work and run so poorly.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by CoastalCoder on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:20AM (#36905323)
> As someone in a middling HFT shop

Hey, since we're on the topic of HFT developers...

How do people break into that area?

I've done a lot of performance-optimization work, so I thought I might be a good candidate for some of those roles.

But for all the job postings I've seen in the past ~4 months, they want significant prior experience developing low-latency systems.

Is this just a temporary thing, where the pool of already-experienced candidates is sufficient?

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by RhysU on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:34AM (#36905910)
It's like a middle school dance. If you ask enough people, someone will dance.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by CoastalCoder on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:33AM (#36907362)
Well that helps explain my time in middle school.
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