Very well, but people don't seem to want to apply to jobs in Healthtech. I say this as my company has many active openings that we just don't get many applications for.
Are you paying well enough for the current market?
Readit Newscvhashim commented on Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year? · Posted by u/ss108
cvhashim commented on Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year? · Posted by u/ss108
> Anyone who knew the drill could grind leetcode, study interview guides, apply to enough FAANG companies and get a job eventually.
It's ironic that the trackpants set that got into leetcoding over medicine because the lifestyle was better are now getting fucked by the fact that if you're doing useless shit in programming, you truly will get fired and fucked.
At least if you grind in medicine, you are helping people. That said, the lifestyle options like radiology that those same trackpants kids get into will have their comeuppance too, just in longer time scales.
Eh idk, medicine has its own challenges. I was a premed years ago. I’m thankful I made the change to swe. Grinding leetcode is still a great investment in the long run as long as you keep skills up to date and are a competent engineer.
cvhashim commented on Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year? · Posted by u/ss108
For software engineering 2001 especially post 9/11 was brutal. Much more so than 2008 unless you worked for a financial company.
2008/2009 was lean times but good people were able to find work. After the dotcom bust however, things were so bad I had a friend who is a very good developer who spent a couple of years gluing shoes for a living. In Canada.
Tech is such an important facet of our lives these days the amount of work to do outweighs whatever was around in the early 2000s.
Last time I had trouble getting a job I just looked at what the most popular language was in my city. Then proceeded to read a book on C# and make a quick and dirty demo project. Had a job within two weeks after looking for months. It was kind of annoying switching to Windows dev but whatever do what you gotta do.
.NET core/C# is pretty dope though and its the most widely used in fortune 500s in the backend aside from Java. It’s much less verbose than Java and any Junior engineer can pick it up if they’ve worked with OOP based languages or even JavaScript.
cvhashim commented on Show HN: Nomad, a no fee Airbnb competitor. Any investors here? nomad-pass.herokuapp.com... · Posted by u/nomadpass
Am hoping some investor who may be lurking here might want to participate in our seed round. We have gotten some offers last week of 1.5-2m for 15% but terms not founder friendly.
We can email/fax proof if necessary to prove it.
Hoping the HN community can come to the rescue :)
No offense OP, but that’s a lot of money for a website with poor UX and no users. Take the money offered.
cvhashim commented on Show HN: Nomad, a no fee Airbnb competitor. Any investors here? nomad-pass.herokuapp.com... · Posted by u/nomadpass
I worked at Google as an SRE. I'm at Meta now. I always disliked all the swag (goes straight into the trash) and parties and travel. But I'm a suburban mom so I don't need more junk and I like to be home with my family. Remote work is all the perks I'll ever want or need. Maybe tech companies should hire more suburban moms. We can be placated with boxes of wine and zoom yoga classes lmaooo.
You should sell the swag. Apparently there are people across the country who buy/collect corporate swag. Especially swag of ones that are dead startups or failed businesses.
cvhashim commented on Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture businessinsider.com/amazo... · Posted by u/firstSpeaker
Spoke to an Amazon sr engineer a week ago.
"its incredibly high pressure and demanding, but worth it"
The money is the drive. And I worry about going for a money job that I hate because getting used to the lifestyle will mean it is that much harder to leave. I am already in that boat where leaving my current job basically means a pay cut or going to a FAANG. It is very limiting especially with family pressure.
Plenty of companies that pay well and have a good wlb not named Amazon
cvhashim commented on Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture businessinsider.com/amazo... · Posted by u/firstSpeaker
there's junk on every retail platform, but i disagree that amazon retail is all garbage. myself and peers have noticed an increase in quality of chinese import over the past 5 years. to the point that i would seriously questions buying a brand name domestic product over the chinese/asian import off amazon. i think the quality gap has been slowly closing.
I’ve stop buying name brand on Amazon (Nike, Apple products, Hanes etc) a few years ago due to poor quality assurance and potential for counterfeit — cue joke about how Nike and counterfeit Nike are made in the same sweatshop. I would happily buy counterfeit Nike but only if it’s heavily discounted. I don’t want to be tricked into buying second hand clothes, useless junk or counterfeit products. However you bring up a good point, some of products on Amazon from Asia are just fine if you’re looking for basics like T shirts and Athletic wear. But outside of that would highly suggest people buy electronics and brand name clothing elsewhere.