Hacker News User Reports Severe Job Market Struggles for Experienced Professionals
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idontwantthis
29d ago· 16 min readenOpinion
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Summary
A Hacker News user shares personal anecdotes about highly qualified friends and acquaintances struggling to find jobs, with one HR professional taking 13 months and another experienced candidate with Amazon and Home Depot on their resume searching for seven months and having to take a career step backward. The user argues that the job market is genuinely bad, with even getting an interview being extremely difficult, and suggests this is a serious employment problem unlikely to improve soon.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI had a friend with plenty of experience in HR get laid off. He looked for a job for 13 months.
One of the top 3 smartest people I've ever known looked for seven months and had to take a big step back in his career, despite having Amazon and Home Depot on his resume.
Both of them said that even getting an interview was almost impossibly hard.
I think we have a serious problem on our hands with employment that's probably not getting better any time soon.
iambateman 17 minutes ago | [–]
