Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ...
by benreesman on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:12AM
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In November I was getting ~10 inbound emails a week from top-flight shops, that had been typical for at least 5 years. In December that was zero and has been since. I was an L7 in ML infra at a FAANG a few years ago.
I did some marquee loops in Jan/Feb, and my “fuck this” point was when I did a coding screen at $KNOWN_COMPANY highly recommended by a former colleague and ended up with a 24 year old in a hotel room on a MacBook Air looking at his phone for 45 minutes and the back channel was that he had flunked my trivial 50-line Python program less than 10 minutes after the interview was over.
After that I was like, I’m consulting for a while, catch you all in 2024 once Powell gets brought to heel for the geberal. :)
I did some marquee loops in Jan/Feb, and my “fuck this” point was when I did a coding screen at $KNOWN_COMPANY highly recommended by a former colleague and ended up with a 24 year old in a hotel room on a MacBook Air looking at his phone for 45 minutes and the back channel was that he had flunked my trivial 50-line Python program less than 10 minutes after the interview was over.
After that I was like, I’m consulting for a while, catch you all in 2024 once Powell gets brought to heel for the geberal. :)
It’s not just you.