Have you been laid off?

At the beginning of the year, I decided it was time to find a new job after 10 years with my employer. I spent February doing interview prep and conducting interviews. Back then, the COVID-19 was mostly limited to China, markets and governments weren't terribly concerned about COVID-19.

I accept a job offer, put in my two weeks notice, and my last day at was last Friday. Hardly anyone was seriously concerned about COVID-19 when I gave notice. A week later, business travel was suspended and WFH policies implemented. My last day, schools were closing, and the economy tanked. This week, we're sheltering in place.

I gave myself 3 weeks in between the old and the new job, you know for relaxation and travel. Instead, I'm sequestered to my house for 3 weeks.

Everyday, the news got worse and worse and continues to get worse and worse. Now, I'm in between jobs, and am a little worried my new employer will revoke my job offer. To add insult to injury, one reason I didn't leave my previous job was job security. But in February, there wasn't any sign of an economic downturn. Everyone was enjoying the bull market.

This is probably a long shot - and I'm sure you'll see quite a few posts like this over the coming weeks - but I'm going to swallow my pride and ask nonetheless.

I've been a data entry clerk for the past twenty years, working for a major bookmaker in Northern Ireland. With the coronavirus pandemic hitting recently, many businesses have decided to lay off large numbers of staff. I've just become one of the unfortunate victims of one of these layoffs today, with a mortgage to pay, a wife and two young children to support.

I've also been programming, in my own time, over the past seven years or so, in Python 3, Javascript and PHP mainly. Over that time I've developed a number of tools that were used in my former place of employ, to scrape data from websites and automate the process of data entry. I've also built some online tools in Javascript and PHP for scraping/munging data. Most recently, until the coronavirus hit and unemployment loomed, I was working on a Mario/NES style level editor in HTML5 and a random tile generator for building platformer levels, while I learned C++ and wrote a platforming engine to develop a platform game for release on Steam.

I've placed a number of these tool in public repos on github. You can check them out at:

https://github.com/Zleet

I've also got a resume ready to go for anyone that's interested. What I'm looking for is any remote programming job that fits my skillset and will enable me to keep a roof over my family's head and food in the cupboard for the next few months.

I apologise for posting something like this here. I've been reading hacker news for years now. It's my favourite website. But, along with many other people right now, I'm in a pretty bad place and I've got several little people relying on me to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. Be assured that any job offer right now would be gratefully accepted.

Cheers,

Miktor

All: a user emailed with the brilliant suggestion that HN do a "Who Is Hiring Right Now?" thread. We'll do that soon; maybe tomorrow. This will specifically be for jobs that are ready to hire, and able to onboard, quickly.

If any of you have suggestions for how to make this most helpful under current conditions, please share them. I'll check this thread later tonight.

Just found yesterday out that I'm being laid off at the end of the month.

Sadly, I wholeheartedly believe that the owners are using the coronavirus as an excuse to close their already-failing company. The company has been in slow-motion dissolution for the better part of a year, and now they're blaming the entire thing on the virus outbreak so that they have a narrative to tell that covers up some of the mismanagement that makes the closure of their company look bad. Now they have an effective smokescreen that shows that the closure was "outside of their control".

I have no doubt that many other companies will take advantage of this opportunity to close without the shame or stigma of having closed a failing company. There is almost no downside to using this as a guilt-free chance to rapidly shut down at a time where employees need stability more than ever.

All of that said, the company was conscientious enough to give us all two weeks' notice, pay out our PTO plans (that might just be required by law, though), and additionally pay out any pending bonuses to employees that had been agreed upon. They certainly didn't have to do all of that (even if some parts are just them following the law), and I appreciate them for taking those particular steps to help all of us transition to new positions.

Luckily, I started looking for jobs nearly a month ago and had begun preparing my resume and materials back in December, so I've already had a good number of interviews and am waiting to hear back about two positions in particular.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed and doing a lot of email refreshing, but if I'm being really honest it seems grim. I've already heard that many other companies are implementing a hiring freeze with the virus outbreak, etc. I can't help but shake the feeling that I should have started applying about a month earlier.

Not to scare anyone, but myself and many of my highly capable friends were laid off after the dotcom bubble burst in the early 2000's. It took many of us 1, 2 sometimes 3 years to get back to the same level of job we had before. Prepare for a long haul. Get over your ego immediately and take whatever job you can get now, while you continue to look for work in the software industry. I drove a city bus (surprisingly to me, I loved it.)

Sourcegraph CEO here. We build universal code search for developers. Our team is all-remote (all countries and timezones OK). We're hiring for engineering, design, and product roles (+ others):

https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr...

https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr...

and https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers#readme for a full list of roles.

We are growing quickly and have not slowed down hiring pace (and don't plan to do so based on the Covid-19 crisis). The limiting factor for us is just ensuring we're adding engineers, PMs, designers, and managers in the right ratios.

If you are interested in joining our team, we would love to hear from you. Understanding the financial stability of the company you'll join is crucial, and as CEO I always walk all late-stage candidates through our internal metrics, burn, cash on hand, etc. We are doing very well and just announced a $23M Series B 2 weeks ago (https://medium.com/craft-ventures/why-we-invested-in-sourceg...).

My predictions:

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a expert wrt. any of this. Don't listen to me ;=). It's all just speculation.

Companies which plan to downsize since a will will do it now, using COVID19 as a excuse.

Companies who have shifted some "bad consequences" into the future might now book them using COVID19 as a excuse for why they exist.

Companies who are already on the last straw will end now, (Such which without COVID19 might have survived a view more month up to a year but didn't see a chance for long term survival without a wonder).

A bunch of companies will go insolvent because COVID19 or following marked situation.

Because of this investors will be a bit more careful then normal, for most kinds of "fresh"/"new" startups it likely will not be a good time.

A small number of startups will have massive opportunities.

Marked will recover after at most 5 Years more likely 3.5 Years. At least if no further crisis happens (like WW3 or one of the massive Vulcan's going off).

Unrelated tip: Be a software engineer not "just" a programmer.

I'm a contract full-stack web developer. I've been "laid off" in that my last remaining client, who was already behind on her bills, told me to stop all work and she has no idea if/when she'll be able to pay her outstanding bills. I have no idea where next month's rent is going to come from.

If anybody needs some contract web dev done, check out my info at https://albright.pro/ and reach out ASAP. I will cut you one hell of a deal if you can at least help keep a roof over my head.

I've lost my job as an Unity game programmer 2 months ago. I've found another one working as a C#/ASP.NET core developer for a big multinational wholesale chain. I work here since a month ago.

Payment is 2x better and I find Web stuff being more interesting and rewarding than game programming. Also it's less stressful and it's better to do something mainstream than working in a niche. It means more opportunities.

I've went through about 20 something job interviews until I had enough to chose from.

Good luck!

I'm the founder of Key Values, which helps software engineers find teams that share their values. Not only do I live in the Bay Area and have many founder friends, but it is also my full-time job to connect tech startups that are hiring w/ devs looking for new roles, so I think I have a good view on this.

I'm still gathering information on how coronavirus is impacting the job market, but what I know now is that many companies have laid team members off in the last week, and I suspect many more will soon. Most early-stage startups that did not recently fundraise and do not yet have significant revenue will struggle during this pandemic. If they were planning to fundraise this summer, fall, or winter, their investors and advisors have already told them start cutting costs in order to survive. Hence, a rise in layoffs.

More stable startups may have slowed their hiring efforts (i.e. "we planned to hire 40 engineers by 2021, but after adjusting our budget, we're now looking to hire ~20"), but they've also explicitly told me that filling certain roles are more urgent than ever.

While this all sounds bleak, some companies will endure, and a smaller number will actually thrive during these times.

Several folks who have recently been laid off have reached out to me. I know that getting laid off can give you the impression that every company is laying people off, but it isn't true. Companies who need to hire in order to keep up w/ unprecedented demand are ramping up and are excited to capture talented folks who were recently let go. So stay positive, put yourself out there, and keep looking!

I'm currently reaching out to all of the companies I work w/ in order to stay on top of their hiring plans, and I hope to message what I learn in my upcoming newsletters. It is the easiest way for me to keep folks up to date on what I'm seeing, and I absolutely will not take offense if people unsubscribe. Key Values: https://www.keyvalues.com

My heart goes out to everyone getting laid off or looking for work for any reason.

Would anyone be interested in a free "lightning round no-bs Q&A for engineering candidates webinar"?

I do interview and negotiation prep with candidates, and while there is a lot of general advice out there, I've found specific advice to be incredibly helpful to individuals.

I'm imagining a zoom call where one person at a time briefly describes their situation -- maybe with one or two clarifying questions on my part -- and then receives specific advice about what to prepare for their next interview, or how to find jobs to apply to, or what to say to that recruiter.

Let me know if you're interested, and what times would be good. Reply here or email hello@DangoorMendel.com

Adam and I have a Youtube channel here, though it so far focuses on negotiation (we've done a ton of application and interview stage work with individuals but haven't made videos about that yet, hence the idea for a live lightning Q&A): http://CandidatePlanet.com

Really sorry for everyone affected by the current situation.

We have open roles at DuckDuckGo for SREs and director level hands-on engineers (in mobile and frontend). There should be a senior frontend engineer role coming up soon too. Check out all open roles at: https://duckduckgo.com/hiring/#open.

We're a fully distributed team of 85 aiming to raise the standard of trust online and have been profitable for over 5 years now. Here's a chart depicting our growth: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.

If have questions, feel free to reach out via Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zbyszmo/

Take whatever you can get, if you are lucky enough to get an offer. Look for contract work. Reduce your expenses. The gaining market share idea is too optimistic. Consider cashflow and sector and aim for stability over upside. Consider headhunters/recruiters.

Really consider your expense and have a plan if you cannot find computer work when you will look outside of that. The general employment picture is a disaster, though.

Read up on COBRA (ensure you have continuing medical coverage) and your state's unemployment benefits and how/if they have recently changed.

Personally, I experienced the .com crash and worked through the 2008 financial crisis. I am absolutely terrified right now.

It's going to get bloody out there soon. Minimize your expenses if you don't already do this.

The market was already fairly saturated from what I inferred last year when I jumped ship during a move. Most organizations did not appear to be seriously hiring, they were hunting for a labor bargain or someone to add to their future contact list for quick turnaround when demand rose.

If you didn't think it was an employers market already, it's about to be.

I was in the midst of several interview processes and things were looking optimistic. Everything changed literally overnight. Interviews were cancelled, postponed indefinitely, or I'd be plain 100% ghosted by a company. I'm extremely distraught because I've been looking for employment for a while now and I don't know how I'll support myself. Even my remote opportunities seem to have vanished as uncertainty increases.

My entire department got laid off. While some people are local, I was here on the work visa, and I was six months away from getting PR allowing free market access.

Now No one is hiring, people are retracting job offers and cancelling interviews at the last minute with no definite timeline.

Interviewing for bigN takes a lot of prep, and there is really no time, midst whatever little interviews I have lined up. This is so exhausting.

If anyone is hiring in EMEA, Canada (but would need visa sponsorship) I’m open to conversation.

6 years of work exp as backend/devops engineer. Skilled in Java, Golang, php. Worked on distributed systems, reservoir sampling on petabytes of data, Cassandra & Elasticsearch, timeseries analysis.

Thank you.

I'm one of the founders at Sympto Health - we are helping nurses and doctors communicate more effectively with patients. Nurses spend up to 60% of their day on manual patient outreach, and the vast majority of nurse's I've spoke to complain about the roteness and mundaneness of this outreach.

Our goal here at Sympto is to supercharge the role of the nurse, automating the rote and manual tasks, and ultimately allowing nurses to focus more on patients who need their attention.

As you can imagine, with COVID-19, we are facing unprecedented demand from health systems, who need help triaging the expected massive inflow of patients.

We just closed a fresh round of funding, backed by investors in Modern Health, Udemy, Guardant Health, DoorDash and Airbnb. We are looking to hire a Founding Engineer who is interested in playing a critical role in helping the lives of thousands of patients & care teams across the country.

Check out our careers page (https://www.symptohealth.com/careers) or email me at prithvi @ symptohealth.com

Khan Academy is still hiring, though our focus is backend and full-stack engineers right now[1]. I hope you're able to find new work soon!

This is an odd time for us. We're an online education non-profit. With all of the school closings[2], we're seeing a huge spike in traffic. Fortunately, our infrastructure can handle it, but we are still spending some effort staying on top of the rapidly changing traffic patterns.

Simultaneously, we're in the midst of a huge project to rebuild our backend (porting from Python 2 to Go)[3]. So we're juggling a lot right now, but will be fine.

If there are folks out there with backend skills in particular, we're hiring and our engineering team is half remote (all in the US/Canada).

[1]: https://www.khanacademy.org/careers

[2]: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/6117702550643507...

[3]: http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm

Got let go about 3 weeks ago now, not sure if my employer saw this coming or if their timing was just spot on. No one is interviewing at the moment and it looks like it's going to be at least another 2 weeks before people are even thinking about hiring. The employment situation is going to get much worse before it gets any better. Hang tight, keep applying and hope for the best.

Seeing as the stock market is utterly tanking, I would be very surprised if the world didn't go into recession, and consequently, if there weren't a number of people losing their jobs in order to make the businesses lean again.

This is especially true of countries like the US, where it seems very simple to fire someone.

My heart really goes out to employees who are about to be put through the wringer, I've heard horror stories of coffee shops and restaurants laying off 90% of staff on a day's notice - I'm sure it will quickly expand.

I work at a DC startup LiveSafe and we are still hiring. We offer a communications platform for students and employees focused around safety & security - we were founded out of the need for communities to have a quicker, more direct line to campus security following our founder being shot in the Virginia Tech shooting. I have been helping lead the expansion of our offerings into Fortune 500 corporate clients.

Many of our clients have been using our software to push outbound information to their students / employees about policies around COVID-19, as well as triage and respond to employee needs, so we are fortunate in that our product fits into the response effort for most companies who purchased us. I think we will be fine for the foreseeable future - sound financials and a generous credit line secured during good times just in case.

We are hiring for a much needed Data Science position focusing on building and deploying NLP models & products to analyze the data that travels through our platforms - plus our production stack is a dream to build and deploy on. It's a small, fun, mission-driven team granted a lot of autonomy and responsibility - I'm on phone screens just about everyday and we have not slowed down filling this position. Would love to hear from any Data Science / Engineering talent may need a soft landing in all of this - very interesting text-heavy data set.

https://apply.workable.com/livesafe/j/DA0FCE14D5/

First off, I'm sorry to anyone who's been laid off. That sucks. It's happened to me in the past so I know how it can be scarring.

My company is hiring in the US. We do runtime Linux protection & visibility. Looking for systems programmers with a background in OS development and web developers with a background in Go/Java/C# (we do Go) and TypeScript. If you're either, send your resume to the email in my profile.

I’ve been let go on Thursday, of a DevOps job that had started on Wednesday. I’m a contractor so I can’t really complain, that’s how the game is played. The job was in the car rental industry, they are suffering heavily so of course the contractors are the first to go. It was my first job after coming back to my home country, and that move have let me pretty dry money wise. Eh… At least they’ll employ me ’till the end of the month, that leaves me with a little something !

I’m about to leave my extremely safe job for a tiny startup. I have to put in notice by the end of the week.

The startup seems to still want to hire me and is showing no signs of pulling the offer. I think they planned on getting more funding at the end of the year.

I’m at a loss for what to do. I’m excited about the opportunity but am not sure that now is the right time to leave. I plan on calling and asking for more information about the financials and/or maybe asking for a start date push back.

Small startup founder here. We did a hiring freeze and cancelled our contract with a recruiter, called an oncoming employee about slight role adjustments due to company plan change, which they were cool with.

Really glad we've got a ton of runway. Keeping everyone in mind who are less burn-fortunate. My only advice, having done a few big layoffs before: Cut now, cut once, cut deep.

I'm a fully remote software developer based out of Chicago, IL working on a mobile app built with Typescript/React Native/Redux/Firebase. Just found out our small startup is shuttering at the end of the week "until the markets stabilize". We're in the events and community management realm, and mainly work with co-working space communities.

Been spending the last few days really wrapping things up with the project getting it into a more stable place before payroll stops at the end of the week. Getting my resume/portfolio up-to-date has been a priority since Monday. It's overwhelming starting up the job search abruptly and in such a turbulent time. Keeping my fingers crossed and my eyes open for opportunities, in the meantime I'll be working on a few personal projects.

I'm a co-founder and the VP of Engineering at ProcedureFlow. If anyone is a full stack .NET developer and lives in Eastern Canada (remote), I'm currently hiring: https://jobs.procedureflow.com/o/full-stack-developer

ProcedureFlow is like GitHub but for your company's procedures. We are hyperlinked flowcharts with pull request style approvals.

I've heard some really unfortunate stories from family, friends, and colleagues who are being laid off or temporarily laid off. Since ProcedureFlow is B2B and is part of our customers' backbone, we're fortunate in this situation. I hope all of you that are affected by this are able to get through this!

Yes, this week. Throwaway account because it's not public yet. I've been active in startup land and HN > 10 years, technical founder with one exit. This cycle looks like it will be worse than 2001 or 2008.

I was laid off in 2018 because I took a generous 5-month paternity leave. 2 months after my leave, I was given the pink slip. Contacted a lawyer and was pretty much told "you have no proof it was BECAUSE you took the leave." Based on my conversation with my boss, I know for a fact that's why. His quote: "H1B's are cheap and loyal. The mere fact that you committed to taking the full 5 months showed 0 loyalty." This was a DJIA credit card company.

Not yet but I'm terrified.

Most of last year was me trying to land this job, my first as a dev. So far this year my company has had a massive layoff, that resulted in the team I started on disappearing six weeks after I joined it. I was shuffled from full stack web work to seo data pipeline work. I have no idea what I'm doing or least that is how it feels. I didn't know PHP before starting, with most of my past experience being in React. Now I'm supposed to be doing SQL, Hadoop, and all these other things. I am trying my hardest but...

Our stock price went down like a rock after the layoffs, after the earnings call, and now with all this mess. I'm worried that my inexperience puts me in a position where if another layoff were to happen I worry I would be a target.

I know I should be thankful that I still have a job. That I am a citizen of the country I'm in. But I'm scared, and don't know what will happen if the job ends.

Yes, I was part of the massive Expedia Group lay-off last month. I’m finding out that a lot of the managers I reported to are becoming individual contributors again as they wind up the department.

I’m a DevOps/Linux Systems Engineer/SRE with 20 years in industry, about 5 as a developer and the rest as operations. Looking for anything remote, or possibly in Austin, TX. I have worked remote before. Besides AWS and Linux, I’ve got experience implementing incident management practices, agile/scrum for infrastructure teams, and have worked remote for over a quarter of my career.

I have been told I will be laid off this month end. I am on H1B and am completely freaking out because I have only 1 year experience and a student loan. To be honest, I kind of saw this coming a month ago and started applying. But, I have had no luck. I even submitted an ask HN yesterday to discuss and get ideas.

Does anyone have advice from 2000/2008 about what happens to immigrants on visas? When the work dries up do we all just have to leave and go home?

I suffered pay cut due to outbreak affecting my company. It was profitable and growing steadily, but due to outbreak people stopped using it (and paying). Right now we're in the red, this is not sustainable, so I think in a couple of months I will be laid off (unless situation stabilizes by then).

It's a bit scary to be in this position, as I know most companies here stopped hiring, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to find a new job quickly.

I haven't been laid off but I voluntarily quit my job in Jan when COVID-19 looked like China would handle it by themselves. I went solopreneur fulltime on https://boomadmin.com but everyday I question myself whether it's a good idea.

Had about 3 years of savings, now only 1.5 years. The stockmarket wiped out a huge part of my runway. I can live like a cockraoch, but let's see what happens. Tough times. I'm optimistic of a rebound once there is a vaccine.

anyone without a job here right now: does somebody have a zulip, discourse, slack whatever, where we can all hang out? I think it would be generally a cool concept to have a HN-job-seekers chat site where smart people can network. People in-need might be able to help each other with ideas and / or work together on cool side projects while also looking, or maybe just learning cool concepts from each other ...

Anything really that allows people to focus on solving this problem for longer than the life-time of a HN post being on the FP. I think it might also be good for mental-health. E.g it seems there are lot of us here who are struggling with ageism, discrimination or for other reasons finding a job/gig so this could be a better alternative than refreshing twitter and focus on helping each other?

Burnout is also a real kicker. I went through this in 2013 and it had cascading effects on other areas of my life that caused an absolute meltdown. It took me 3 years to get back on my feet and after 5 years I could still notice that the experience changed me. I'm OK now but I'd imagine having a place where things like these could be discussed in an environment with intelligent people would have helped. I really haven't thought this through but just want to put this out there. Maybe should start a new Ask HN, idk

How this could work is post your nick that is used on the site also in the HN about profile as proof. Or make it open to others too idk, haven't really thought it through lol.

Anyone interested in this?

I've been laid off yesterday. One of the biggest networking HW/SW vendors, SF area.

This thread is soothing. I owe you, OP. We all do.

Hopefully after this settles down a bit there will be a boom in remote work positions as so many companies will now be both setup for it and seen that it is effective.

Just got my first job offer and excited to start! (In Italy!)

At least partly because of the current “situation”, I’m actually looking for a person/people who can help bolster a client’s (very) small team (to clarify: I am the tech lead of the team, not a recruiter)

For the backend, PHP & SQL experience is a must, and realistically some ops/infra is pretty essential too.

We “self manage” most parts of our stack so some experience with at least some of keepalived/haproxy/stunnel/percona cluster/redis/shell script would be very beneficial.

For the front end, it’s essentially just HTML, CSS and some ‘vanilla’ js w/jquery. Moving to SCSS is on the roadmap so knowledge there may be helpful.

We’re completely remote, but mostly (except me) in US time zones.

If either of the above sounds like you, and you’re looking for work, drop me a line. My email is in my profile.

I'm betting the best places to target for individuals who have been laid off, for the next 6-12 months at least, will be organizations who serve higher education.

When the economy hits the shit, higher education booms. This is absolutely true for tech programs and community/junior colleges, less so for 4-year colleges/universities.

Source: My experience with the 2001 bust and immediate higher ed boom, 2008 bust and immediate higher ed boom.

Effectively, yes.

I run a two-person development company that contracts for tech companies.

Out of the five projects we had in February, two have been canceled, two have been put on hold indefinitely, and the remaining contract project is only part-time.

Yes, I'm negligent about sales and marketing. I am the epitome of the "technician" (in "E-Myth" parlance). I don't expect things to dramatically turn around very soon.

2 people I know lost their jobs today. I expect more to come in the coming weeks.

Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange (Boston, MA https://poloniex.com/) is still hiring, crypto markets are doing fine - we make money whether it goes up or down. Interviews over Google Hangouts. http://poloniex.careers/

I resigned from my current role because the office culture is terrible, and I hate being around pretty much all the people outside of the IT team.

I was offered 6 figures as a counter offer for the first time in my career, which I turned down.

That was last week. New Zealand (where I'm from) hasn't shut down yet, but everything is so bleak, and I'm regretting turning down the offer. I start working from home tomorrow for my final 2 weeks here, and I can't help but feel regret. Being in the office was the one thing I hated, and now we don't have to do that.

Whats worse is I emailed the new job asking if we're still going ahead with me starting, and there was no reply.

I'm a (hiring!) tech director for Singularity 6, a game studio startup on the west-side of Los Angeles.

We're actively hiring. If anything, we're trying to be _more_ aggressive in our hiring. There's some concern that talent will, understandably, want to hunker down and stay with what's known and safe than risk jumping to a new job.

On the plus side, everyone's at home, so it's a bit easier to get in touch with candidates!

Our available roles are up at www.singularity.com/careers. We're all work-from-home for now, but expect folks to eventually be on-site in Los Angeles when life returns to "normal."

We've got a hire freeze as the business is sizably impacted. This could be a long recession if this virus is not stopped quickly. Could be a depression.

I work a company that acts as an ISP, managed services provider and data center operator.

Unless the whole economy tanks very badly, I don't expect any layoffs.

Right now, companies are buying VPN concentrators and the likes like crazy to support remote work. Supply chain delays do delay new projects that involve new hardware though.

Barely hanging on at the independent news organization where I work. Lost a lot of colleagues to layoffs last week.

I'm super worried about the coming year.

Seems like a good time for people with ideas who can't code to team up with people who can code but don't have a good idea. To take a chance on an app/idea what we wouldn't normally want to quit our day jobs on. Are there sites that team people up like that?

I already posted my experience from 2008 somewhere else for anyone concerned about a recession. No two crises are equal, but might give you some pointers.

My personal perception of the 2008 wreck is the following: a some people got royally screwed, many people got screwed, some people didn't feel a difference, and a few people actually thrive. I was in the second category.

First, my company imposed a hiring freeze. This included both hiring new people or renovating temporary contracts. Then, they relied in natural attrition to shed people. Since many people were contractors, those were the first ones to let go. When that wasn't enough, they started laying off full time employees.

I was lucky since my team was left mostly untouched, while other teams were dismissed entirely. We did get our bonuses cancelled and salary frozen for a few years, however. That, coupled to higher taxes and inflation, means that my income went down over the years, but at least I had a job.

My biggest takeaway is that YMMV (duh!). Many people are concerned now about losing their jobs. In my opinion, companies (particularly large and stable ones) will rely on hiring freezes and attrition to curb their numbers. If it comes down to it, you are more likely to see teams being fired wholesale rather than each team bleeding a bit.

Working in a fortune 500 company. Am on a team that was developing a new product for them. Had been doing that for little over a year. Had our product killed just before going public with it. I speculate it was because of the falling stocks in the company (which got worse amidst fears of COVID-19).

Nobody in my team has been laid off so far. However we have nothing to work on, and we most of us believe it is only a matter of time. We are sort of stuck in a limbo at the moment.

I founded my last company, AppNexus, in 2007, and we were out trying to raise our series A round in 2008 just as the world was falling apart. I pitched 40+ VCs, got nowhere, and was about to sell the company when we finally got a term sheet from Venrock and were able to keep going. By having the funding to survive the crisis, we built the company over a 10-year bull market, and ended up selling to AT&T for $1.6 billion in 2018.

Last year, I decided to start a new company, CMDTY, and raised $10MM from Venrock and Rucker Park with the intention of having plenty of money in case the world fell apart again (not really thinking it would, to be clear). I think we are going to be impacted by the global recession like everyone else, and at the same time, I think our product - a platform for supply chain management - is going to be extremely valuable as things pick back up again.

While we are going to be cautious given the uncertainty we face, we plan to hire 3-5 people over the next few months, and we're open to remote work (that feels funny writing, given that nobody is in the office!). https://cmdtymkt.com/careers

Not laid off from this, but I was last Oct. Unemployed for three months, started in January. Realized I didn't fit with the team and just took a new short term contract. That caused me to burn through some of my savings. It's been one thing after the other recently.

I'm really nervous after this contract is up. I already didn't see anything in the market. Most recruiters, and even jobs told me I was too senior for what they were looking for, or to expensive. Even cutting my rates drastically and going for mid level / entry level engineering positions. Or reducing my resume.

I'm looking at my burn rate and have about four months, right now. Honestly I was looking at getting out of software all together after last October. Every project I've been on is shuttered due to budget, or outsourced. Every six months or so looking for new work, now this.

My inbox is still being hit up with roles in NYC, San Fran, Seattle on site / on premise. I don't know if they'll come to fruition. I just worry about volatility. I just find it odd to see people still hiring.

Hope everyone is safe out there, and can keep the bare essentials running.

Expecting to likely get laid off (if I should even care now, having pay dropped below $2/hour as a full time backend dev). But I'm more worried that here in Russia this situation unties hands for the government to close off the borders permanently, and then quietly isolate the internet access.

Our leadership announced the possibility of paycuts in the near future. The company I work for had some pretty aggressive hiring targets for Q1 and I'm one of those hired, so naturally I expect that, should things get worse, they will follow a FILO staff-reduction strategy.

Friday will be the day we find out how much boards are asking their companies to reduce burn. The first large wave of layoffs will probably happen this Friday and then it will be a nervous few weeks. Much more similar to 2001 than 2008.

Just signed a lease for a larger apt with twice the rent. Got laid off within the hour. The new landlord is not wanting to let me out of the lease. They already accepted the deposit and first months rent. Really bad timing.

Though I saw it coming, I was laid off recently (last week). The layoff was unrelated to COVID-19, but laid off none the less. Luckily I have enough saved to not be too burdened by it. I have an interview tomorrow and Friday, but I see it more as an opportunity for something else. In my spare time I have been working very hard to build a startup in the Insurance Tech space. Though I have been looking for jobs, part of me keeps wanting to see this as an opportunity to do what I really want which is to start my own business. Having thought about it, I think I will be looking for freelance/contract work instead of another full-time gig so that I can focus more on my company.

With that being said, the job market is going to become much more brutal very soon, which slightly terrifies me... but I'd probably regret not at least taking a chance working towards my dream, even during these uncertain times. I did panic a bit when I got the news that I'd be losing my job, which lead to the frantic job applications and reaching out to my network. After I took a step back and thought about it though I was able to see this as an opportunity.

To anyone else out there who recently lost a job and is panicking, try to take a step back and evaluate your current situation. It might actually be setting yourself up for something better. If nothing else, take the time that you have to sharpen your skills or learn some new ones. Make the most of a bad situation.

My s.o. just got a dev role in January, first job she hopes to keep, first job in the west, to start 2 March. We moved across the country for it. A few other hires were due to start a bit later in the month.

I was a bit nervous looking for a place to live in an incipient pandemic (cases were already reported in the wild here at that time).

But from the coronavirus, the two hires due to start later in the month got canceled - only my s.o. got taken on. I really hope they hadn't quit jobs in far off lands to relocate :/

Really sorry for everyone affected.

EdgeDB Inc (of which I'm the CEO) is hiring. We're well funded early stage startup with a mission to build the next generation database. We're looking for engineers with extensive knowledge of nodejs/typescript/react and cloud engineers with knowledge of rust/python/k8s/golang. Email me at yury [at] edgedb.com. See also https://edgedb.com/careers/

A few months back, I launched a side project that builds a professional profile from your daily todo list (www.komplish.com). The idea is you can use it to track side projects and even your tasks at work, and build a profile from that to help you find work. You can also find others through the app for smaller jobs that may not be big enough for a full time job posting. I’d love it if anyone wanted to give it a try and let me know your thoughts! Hopefully it can be helpful to some!

I am a software engineer and I work remotely for a US company. We are in telecommunications and our main products are callback service and scheduling a callback over phone or messaging. Over the couple of weeks we have started seeing some interest from big companies in healthcare and insurance that want to use our products for their customer support during COVID-19 outbreak. So for us it's more job opportunities there.

Not laid off, but I quit my job several years back to go to grad school. Finished up my degree, did a bit of followup research, and now have been in the job market for several months.

The job search has been seriously demoralizing.

There have been three separate companies who have department heads saying they want to hire me, one from the R&D department of a large conglomerate even. After several rounds of discussion and a code test each, they express enthusiasm to work together, at which point the discussion pretty much stagnates.

This has happened three times, and atop the background gruel of cold application submissions, I am lost at what I must be doing wrong. Everyone I talk to in person reflects back very positive sounding impressions: clear communicator, keen analytical skills, impressive knowledge, blah blah. However, since this never materializes into anything, I am beginning to wonder if those are just polite ways of brushing someone off.

I just want to find a good (remote) team to work with and add value to. This job search stint is making life bleaker by the day.

Anyway, enough whining, I guess. Many of us are in similar boats it sounds like. Feel free to PM if you just want someone to talk to.

Cheers,

We’re hiring at Tellus App, Inc. Currently, we’re prioritizing those who are looking for non-remote jobs (people who can relocate or already in the Bay Area), but we are also open to hiring fully-remote. We’re growing quickly and aren’t looking to slow down the hiring pace.

We’re an ambitious Silicon Valley FinTech startup founded by serial entrepreneurs in 2016 to become the most innovative real estate investing platform for all. This unique sector is riddled with extreme fragmentation and plagued by uninspired product offerings — yet at the same time, real estate contributes up to 18% of the U.S. GDP. We’re a team of seasoned operators and developers with a home base in Silicon Valley who love to move fast and want to do something no one has figured out.

We have several developer roles open which you can check out here: https://angel.co/company/tellusapp

If you’re interested in joining our team and for the right opportunity to dive into the FinTech space, we’d love to hear from you! Email us at recruiting@tellusapp.com.

Yep. Events industry; entire company basically shut down.

I wasn't laid off, it was worse.

The last startup I worked for turned out to be a Theranos-in-miniature, and after 11 months (after solving the puzzle) I had to recuse myself to the VC who brought me in. Made me take a long pause/sabbatical to decide if I want to be in startups anymore, and I worked on my music for awhile.

Being in the midst of an intense job search before all this broke, I'd been blocking out the news. Coronavirus was peripheral to me, at best. I was just starting to gain traction on a job search, when Covid-19 lock-down happened.

The moment I realized (my weak knees broke the news) this was real: Trader Joe's, where all the aisles—normally so well-appointed, were empty. I've never seen anything like it, except in a Walking Dead episode.

After successfully exiting the store without fainting, I said, you know that silver lining? It's going to be huge.

In times of crisis, humans tend to go bigger. We discover how powerful we really are. It's going to become crystal clear what's important and what's not. We're living in the golden age of opportunity in so many ways it's not even funny.

Just because I haven't solved my own personal crisis doesn't mean I won't. It's going to push me out of my comfort zone even further, into a world suddenly in exactly the same place. The way forward is focusing on others.

Since last week, I've had two interviews go dark due to hiring freezes, but 3 dozen meaningful conversations with people over the internet that never would've happened otherwise. Some of them are afraid. I tell them about the silver lining.

Before Covid-19, I felt a lot more alone. Now it seems like everyone is freaking out right along with me, except I'm not anymore.

Syllable.ai is hiring across the board. We are a healthcare company and are currently slammed with requests from healthcare syatems for automated web and phone bots. They are crippling under the demand of unprecedented customer information requests. Our bots drive down their call volume significantly, freeing up their call center operators to help the most critical information requests.

Please email andrew@syllable.ai

just wanted to say that rather than updating resumes, update your linkedin profile. most opportunities i have gotten has been through linkedin. also, once you have a linkedin profile completed, you can import it into indeed and import your indeed profile into ziprecruiter.

also, there are many services out there that will export your linkedin profile as a resume.

good luck everyone, i might be joining you guys soon enough :P

Laid off since 2002. Became disabled in 2003. Nobody wants to hire me because of my disabilities.

Since then I've been working on getting better, but tech has passed me by to where my skills are all retro and legacy tech. I kept up with Windows and Office but did not learn C# and Python yet. I know the foundations and fundamentals of programming. Just that I am 51 now and ageism sets in.

I work as a PM in a pretty big tech company, and I’m a cofounder of PrepTick (an interview prep startup).

Here’s a rundown of what we’ve been seeing in the tech job market. Situation’s super fluid, so it’s quite likely a lot of this might be inaccurate a week from today.

  -Big companies (FAANG, Microsoft, Uber etc) continue hiring unabated. It looks like any contracts made are being honoured.
  -Medium and smaller companies seem to be pausing hiring. A lot of scheduled interviews cancelled. Some candidates told us they were informed these companies would get back in 6-8 weeks.
  -The majority of venture funded startups seem to have entirely stopped hiring, or seem to be on the verge of doing so. Some relatively urgent roles still remain open. Anecdotally, reasons seem to be either runway extension (defensively, or rarely - explicit guidance from investors), as well as a sheer lack of time, too many key people involved in firefighting expected changes in revenue/demand

Some incidental observations we made that might be useful for recently unemployed engineers/analysts: Lots of Banking tech roles still open, inspite of the pounding their stocks have taken. Banks pay decently, work environment is rarely as awesome as Tech but it’s a living. Accounting tech and Consulting tech seem relatively unaffected.

As an interview prep company, we know we can do a lot to help folks affected by this situation. Up until now we’ve focused on 1-1 coaching/practice simply because it’s proven to be incredibly effective. We really want to do something that can help a winder audience given the situation - and until things stabilize, we’re probably going to do it for free (think webinars, interview content, videos - we’re brainstorming a bunch of ideas)

If anyone has thoughts, or might be interested in helping/collaborating, drop me a note at [redacted]. We’re going to do whatever we can :)

PS - first post here, bad formatting, edited to try and fix it.

I'm a French freelance developer - working from France - and until now I had an Australian company as my main client. I got a call at the beginning of the week from the CTO telling me that after almost 2 years that was it. The company suffered a lot from the economic situation because of the COVID-19 crisis and thus could not longer afford my services. The R&D team was split-up between remote contractors and based in Sydney people. All the remotes have been laid off. My situation is not that bad currently: I still have another client I used to work for 1 or 2 days a week, I hope they will have enough work for me to work 3 or 4 days a week. I have some savings as well. I'll wait for the end of all of this before taking any decision (go back to a classic full time job maybe ?). Cheers

Wow, my heart goes out to you people, in my mind the tech industry was safe but apparently I hadn't thought this through.

The AI startup I was with just informed me that there's been a change of business directions and they needed more salespeople than a DevOps engineer so I got the ax.

Unemployment doesn't have to be bleak and depressing. With the downtime, I'm going to try to knock out two AWS Associate certifications, Solution Architect and DevOps. Got inspired by Adrian Cantrill. No affiliation, I'm still in awe of his level of detail and clarity. I would highly recommend it if you are planning on taking SAA-C02.

Hiring in Singapore for DevOps/Cloud in startups has been pretty good from my experience these past few weeks. Got more than a few interviews lined up from startups in different domains, fintech, and travel just to name a few.

It's not what you know but who you know. I still stand by those words.

Lately, Roselinde Torres, a leadership expert asked it the best. What is the diversity measure of your network?

For anyone looking for something right now we are very much hiring over at https://snyk.io/ for engineers and more in Tel Aviv & London. All interviews are remote at this time but we are not stopping hiring.

Here is a small description of what we do: Ecosystems Group My team is responsible for introducing support for new Languages, Build Tools and Package Managers to help Snyk users test & fix their projects. We do so by understanding the language rules & dependency resolution rules for each tool and building libraries & services in TypeScript that can extract project dependencies so that they can be tested for known vulnerabilities. Expect to learn a lot, pair a lot and be challenged while delivering incremental value to our users

We use Node.js with Express & Typescript.

I've been on the opposite end of this. We're a small startup that's vc backed but cashflow positive and we're hiring a new frontend dev for our next project, full-remote globally possible. We've received a ton of applications, put a lot of effort in whittling them down to a final candidate, who could only start in April. This was a bitter pill for us to swallow but she was head-and-shoulders above the rest so we decided to keep the position open and wait for her.

Yesterday I received the mail that because of COVID-19 she wants to stay with her current employer as she doesn't want any additional uncertainty in her life at this moment. I totally understand the sentiment, but now our project timeline is hosed and I have to start the recruitment process from scratch.

Sadly our conservative budgets don't allow for hiring multiple people for this position.

My team at Apple is hiring two software engineers to work on WebKit Web Inspector.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200129232/web-developer...

CrowdStrike is hiring aggressively.

My team managers the physical and virtual server infrastructure.

I'm looking for:

Data Center Technicians (non remote) Power Analysts (looking at server, pdu, DC power - remote) HW Performance Testers (server, cpu, disk performance analysis - remote) Linux Automation (remote) VMWare Administrators (highly advanced in large scale environments with high complexity and throughput - remote) Project Managers with experience deploying telecom and circuits (remote) Network Engineers (remote) Storage Engineers (familiar w/ ZFS, iscsi, nfs, complex storage analysis - remote)

If interested, please mail me aXlaXn@crXowdstXrike.com (remove the "X"es) with your resume and a brief introduction - please put 'remote HN post' in your subject.

I'm the sole IT tech for a small manufacturing facility - I was already part time and just got the request to reduce my hours even further for now. The local job market is already subpar here, so I'm definitely concerned about the months to come.

As someone who went through the last downturn, this isn't looking good in the same ways. Back then I was on a contract that had just completed and as soon as the housing market collapsed all the VC money dried up, established companies did some purse-tightening which included layoffs, and there wasn't a job available to even apply to for almost 6 months.

I work in a more downturn-resistant company now and I should be alright since we were going to be working on some internal projects for the next 6 months or so anyways. But you never know. Any expenses I have at this time are being heavily scrutinized because, like last time, things are going to take 6 months to shake out.

God speed, everyone.

I'm probably too late to this topic: but if your skills are related to Robotics and you were laid off let me know at mat@weeklyrobotics.com and I'll share your profile with all the readers of Weekly Robotics newsletter.

I’m personally unaffected and unlikely to be for a while longer because my SaaS serves a class of businesses that will be remaining open during quarantine. We’re pretty slim as an organization and fully remote so I’m hopeful we’ll be fine through this.

However, my SO is a physical therapist and several of her colleagues at other businesses have been laid off as people stop coming to appointments (rehab not being acute care and many patients being elderly or otherwise vulnerable). All of my service industry and entertainment industry friends are unemployed for the foreseeable future. The knock-on effects of even a short shutdown are likely to be significant.

Seeing a lot of folks getting worried about layoffs but haven't heard of anyone being let go first hard yet. Nonetheless, I think this is an important time to understand how layoffs work, what is negotiable and what to sign/ not to sign if it happens to you. I warmly recommend this short read, even if you're pretty confident you won't be affected: https://candor.co/guides/layoff/

Sad to read about some of these stories of hardship that people find themselves in. If you are based in Melbourne, Victoria we currently have an opening for a web developer to help with our frontend as well as a business development role based in the states. You can check the job description on our careers page:

https://mod.io/careers

Remote work is potentially possible for the SE role depending on the candidate, but on-site is preferred.. that being said we are all working remotely for the meantime given the current situation.

If you are interested please drop me an email at pat[at]mod.io

No layoffs in Dailymotion. We're in fact having an opening for a junior/mid-level (~1-3 yrs exp) JavaScript developer role, for my team in south-east France. Due to the outbreak though, interviews will be via Zoom.

Contact info in my HN profile.

Two companies that I was in the process interviewing, cancelled the interviews this week. I am thankfully employed but I was thinking of leaving the company I work for. Having said that there are other companies still willing to hire.

No, but I picked a very bad time to quit my job and move from one hotspot to another.

I got lucky. I started a full time remote job in an edtech platform, and this one has some capability for supporting distance learning.

A friend of mine started a new full time remote job several months ago at a 12-person startup doing telemedicine and remote patient onboarding.

I think it depends on what it is. I would have expected Slack to be launching like a rocket ship, but they are actually have an in-office-first culture and resisted the transformation into a fully-remote culture.

I'm still wondering where all those VR startups and entertainments platforms are. I haven't been hearing anything from Second Life, for example.

I am the Founder/CEO of SimplyWise. We are hiring a tech lead based out of NYC. We are well capitalized and have plenty of runway to get through the the next few years.

SimplyWise is empowering better decisions for modern retirement. As the US population ages, more retirees are faced with difficult decisions around how to generate income, reduce debt, navigate healthcare and minimize costs. Be a part of the team that is helping 55 to 70 year olds navigate some of the most anxiety inducing decisions they face right now.

For more information about the position contact me at samsimplywise.com

Not talking about today's situation, but I've been laid off during the crisis in 2008. I was in a small startup that cut its workforce in half (because VCs wanted it to stay afloat longer with the same amount of money). Many other tech companies did massive layoffs.

There was still plenty of jobs in companies who were not affected by the crisis as much and used the opportunity to recruit talent that is very hard to attract in normal time.

So if you're in tech, it's unlikely that the job market will dry up to the point it becomes hard to find a job.

I'm a Contractor focusing on technical support for eComm sites (Woocommerce, Shopify, Etc). and overall helping with the technical needs for companies that can't do it in house. A few clients have indefinitely suspended work, We'll see what happens when I send invoices at the end of the month ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

If your looking for a stateside contractor at rates of around 90$/hr I'd love to talk! My portfolio is here https://talleycodigital.com/

I work for an airline. Leadership is saying pretty much every day that employee layoffs aren't planned currently but they sound less and less confident about it every time they say it.

I’ve found out last Friday that I have to fire 2/3 of our engineering team. I work for a R&D “lab” inside a corporation, inside market research industry. Reason that I’ve got is that company hasn’t reached its expected growth and there is no budget to continue development in such size. I had to let my friends go... It’s gonna be really really though to stay.

So, if you need remote Senior Ruby, Senior Scala, Senior OPS, Senior Front-End (Angular), Senior iOS/Swift, or certified product managers, ping me.

My intuition is that layoffs will be limited to speculative ventures; i.e., startups that aren't profitable yet and/or are highly dependent on outside investment. Risk is suddenly very unattractive, which is a major turnaround from 6 months ago.

I don't think tech in general is in trouble. As a whole it's probably one of the least in-trouble sectors as the world moves online. We'll just see a lot of developers shifting from moonshots to projects that create real value, which may not be a bad thing.

Tens of thousands of people were fired in my country just this week, across all industries.

While this periodic restructuring of the economy is probably healthy in the long term, I wish well to all individuals and families hurt by this crisis. Some people I know won't recover financially.

One consequence of this crisis, IMO, will be that people will focus on their fellow nationals for a while, and globalism will take a hit. When resources are scarce compared to the scale of the problem, you have to prioritize.

A little off topic but can we start a thread for people who have been displaced by coronavirus seeking work? There sure to be many great people who will be looking for work now, or will be shortly.

I haven't been displaced, but I am a Data scientist seeking work. I'd particularly like to jump on projects which can help deal with this virus. But I'd work take any honest work.

I have the usual DS experience Python, TF, sklearn, stats, Postgres, AWS, scala/spark pipelines, etc. Contact is in the profile.

I am in the same fate. My company has teams in Melbourne and San Diego. The whole team in Melbourne office get laid off just 2 weeks ago.

I am working in Australia but with working visa. So it is urgent for me to find a work within 60 days. Getting a job will be harder this time due to the fact that not all the companies I applied can sponsor visa for applicants.

But I am still keep my faith. There will be jobs available and even in the worst case, I could take a time off to spend more time with my family.

Academia.edu is still conducting interviews (now remotely) and hiring at full speed. It's on solid footing financially, it's adapted well to remote work, and for the last three and a half years I've found it to be a really fun workplace. I can't recommend it enough without sounding like a recruiter. Here are the openings: https://www.academia.edu/hiring

I accepted an offer with a pharma tech company last week am am super nervous about putting my notice in this week at my current job. I have verified that everything is good to go multiple times and am now being shipped my machine to begin remotely. This has to be the most nerve wracking decision I've made in my adult life (solely due to timing). I've been told over and over by people close to me not to worry about it, but I can't help but worry.

Remote Leaf[1] founder here, I would like to offer a free month of Remote Leaf membership to people who lost their job during this crisis, that might help you land a remote job. We hand-pick thousands of remote jobs from tons of job boards and only sends the ones that apply to you. Just ping me on Twitter(@abinaya_rl) and send me an email to avail this :)

[1] - https://remoteleaf.com

It seams to me that this bust of economy that is rolling has potential to be even more destructive than previous one of 2008. Brace yourself. Here is good list of advices in case of layoff, it was posted in HN few days ago https://jacobian.org/2020/mar/13/layoffs-are-coming/

The company I work for is hiring in San Francisco, New York and Bengaluru. We're doing remote interviews. If interested, my email is in my profile. Cheers!

I’m graduating in May, and accepted a return offer at a company I interned at last summer. I’m reeeeally nervous they’re gonna cancel that offer before September.

Sorry to detract when I'm lucky and have not been laid off but I feel it's relevant.

I just started a new gig a month ago. I feel it is stable and was a good move, but who knows in these uncharted waters.

My wife is 12 weeks pregnant. I haven't told my manager or anyone else. Should I tell them or wait? We're on her healthcare and she is a nurse so high job security. Happy to add more details and thanks for your advice.

Hello all,

we are actively hiring. We are Myriad Genetics -- Biotech giant from Salt Lake City, Utah. Take a look at our openings, apply and let me know if you need assistance.

https://myriad.com/working-at-myriad/joining-the-myriad-team...

i can be reached at: alex.bec@myriad.com

Flipdish (food-tech / online ordering for restaurants) is hiring remote developers (.NET)

https://www.flipdish.com/careers/

Mention HN in the application and I’ll make sure it’s prioritised.

I’m totally biased, but I think we’ve a great culture and lovely and friendly tech team who love solving problems together and getting stuff shipped.

I was laid off in December… from my job researching the origins of pandemic diseases and developing mitigation methods. ¯\(°_O)/¯

Basically.

I was actually laid off last year and had been searching for a new gig.

Finally made some progress on finding two companies I really liked and made it to the final interviews. One company’s business is in jeopardy and the other has paused hiring.

If anyone needs a full-stack marketing leader with digital, offline and partnership experience, I’m here! Full or part time at any level or consulting. Let me know!

I'm a full-time software engineer in Seattle and I got laid off today. I have been with the company for about 8 months only. There given reason was re-org. Looking for an opportunity during this rough time, my resume here http://0sl.in/aboutme I appreciate any referrals

Does anyone know how important it is to look for a job immediately if you don't think your job will exist for much longer?

I have the funds to last about a year unemployed + I wanted to work on my own software projects for a few months. However, I'm concerned that if I don't hop back in the job market quickly enough, the decent paying jobs might dry up.

Working in mobile gaming my whole life, and it's one of the few industries that's experiencing a a sharp upturn – but I'm still very nervous. Although big companies and publishers might be enjoying increased revenues, it's still not obvious how will small studios that are cash flow negative and rely on investment survive.

We are hiring at Myriad Genetics. If you are interested in software engineering roles or any roles, please visit our website at

https://myriad.com/working-at-myriad/joining-the-myriad-team...

If you were laid off with an excuse related to coronavirus, I'd be willing to bet that you would've been without a job in the near term no matter what.

This is a short term issue. Once everyone returns to their normal routines in the next ~2-3 weeks, there will be a surge of spending and businesses won't be able to keep up with demand.

Yes, from my part-time food service job. Luckily I have a place to stay and just got my tax refund but I'm a poor college student so the worries I'm having are with internet access at my familial home. I'm waiting on a refund from my college for the unused rent after they kicked us out of the student living.

https://rezi.io

We've made our resume software totally free for anyone that is affected by the virus.

We are headquartered in Seoul and as a result, my first-hand experience with the virus comes from a place of less concern than most North Americans and Europeans.

This is the one way I feel like we can help out

Does anyone have advice on what to do if you think your company will lay you off? For example, would it be best to get laid off, then immediately seek unemployment? Or, best to negotiate NOW for a severance package that includes healthcare in hopes of your boss thinking that is a better option for them? Or, resign for some reason?

I left my job & bootstrapped my startup for the past year. It is an Augmented Reality product with location-based functionality. We had it tested, refined & ready. Now I don't think I can release it in the near future. I do not apply for EI or SMB business credit as well. Well, it is an adventure - isn't it?

www.mani.ai

Any JavaScript/React or Scala engineers in NYC (and some remote opportunities). Looking for a job my company dv01 has a lot of open roles. Currently doing interviews over hangouts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22618788

Running a small consulting firm. Taking the financial temperature of the startups we service.

If this turns into a many month or year long downturn, I suspect many of our contracts which are on a monthly basis will come to an end. Trying to re-enter the job market at my age is going to be extremely difficult.

I'm interviewing right now... Wanted to "switch up". Now I'm not so sure anymore.

Even though they are pretty big, i have no idea how they woild handle 20 percent jobless and an economy in the shitters... Seriously. No company and job is save. The big ones will feel the lower sales too.

I'm not being laid off. Well, I will be in a few months, but also the opposite; I'm a freelancer currently working for a major bank, and they will soon run into the limit of how long they're allowed to hire me according to their rules, so they announced my contract will end in the summer. But if I'm open to it, I could get a permanent position there. It's unrelated to the pandemic, though.

I need to consider whether to take them up on that. I like the freedom of freelancing, and it will undoubtedly be an effective pay cut, but I do really enjoy the project I'm working on, and other teams within the same department are also working on interesting things I'd like to get into, like Machine Learning. And some job security might be nice if the pandemic hurts the job market. So in a way the pandemic may force me out of my current freelancing business. I'm totally aware I'm in a very comfortable position compared to many others, though.

We're still hiring, and are trying to help where possible to combat covid-19 (We are a "cloud lab" that gives programmatic control of lab equipment to scientists via the internet)

https://strateos.com/

I have. It was the best thing that could have happened. I've got 2 months to sit at home while being paid. The 2 months are soon over and I'm flooded with freelance work. So now I work 40-50% less for roughly the same amount of money. I should have done this earlier.

Not a hiring manager, but I will be hiring more cs people for my team soon. We wanted to hire people anyway, but this virus will probably expand the candidate pool since most of the gorillas will have trouble hiring now. Adtech is about to face a harsh reality check.

We are hiring at Myriad Genetics.

https://myriad.com/working-at-myriad/joining-the-myriad-team...

Not yet, but as a contractor-to-hire employee I expect that the latter part of the equation won't be happening at absolute best.

Anybody looking for a FT remote senior designer with heavy component library, react prototyping and sketch/figma skills?

What human-capital organizing platforms do we have, or can we stand up in short order? Linked and Indeed are overly spammed and enterprise, I don't expect them to pivot quickly.

Surely we can make a matching platform for and by tech.

This is probably the best time for some businesses like Airlines to upgrade and migrate their legacy software foundations. I hope they see it that way. But unfortunately that's not how investors look at it.

SharpSpring is hiring. We're a marketing automation company. Fully remote--for the moment at least. Hiring fullstack devs (TypeScript & GraphQL). Email travis [at] sharpspring [dot] com if interested.

Not exactly laid off recently, but I've been on a sabbatical after being laid off 18 months ago.

I'm about at the end of my sabbatical and was going to start looking for a new gig soon. Worst timing ever.

Not sure what to do now.

I was layed off before corona. Although I have been interviewing at 2 companies, both of those have frozen hiring and the positions have been cancelled. So still in a way affected which sucks!

I'm a frontend dev. I do not expect to be laid off anytime soon. Our company was planning to double in size this year, we were hiring quite a lot, and now we're just slowing down hiring.

No. My company was already 70% remote and our customers and users are in the US healthcare system. I consider myself extremely fortunate, because my wife worked at a restaurant and lost her job.

I'm a hiring manager and we're hiring engineers: senior frontend and backend. Interviews are over Zoom; they're a bit choppy but people seem to be bearing with us.

If you work for a company funded by SoftBank or your company is chasing froth, I'd start making plans that involve your current employer no longer paying you.

I'd be remiss if I didn't say if you need a job, meet the above qualifications, and are willing to work in SF 4 days/week only -- comment below this. (Though obviously we're fully remote until at least April 7; I expect after that it's going to be fully remote at your choice for probably another month minimum. More depending on if / how Trump bungles the covid response further).

we are actively hiring -- virus or no virus -- Biotech giant in Salt Lake City Utah -- Myriad Genetics -- Take a look and apply! https://myriad.com/working-at-myriad/joining-the-myriad-team...

i can be reached at: alex.becz@myriad.com

I lost my contractor assignment this morning. It seems like companies here in Sweden are preparing for tougher times ahead.

Not laid off but about to have a third interview with my ideal company and was told they were starting a hiring freeze.

Not laid off but was just put on furlough

Hey fam, if you haven't noticed - the entire world just went work from home. Have faith. Don't despair. This too shall pass. Use this time to brush up on skills, do some side projects, learn new things. Have confidence in your abilities, recognize where you can use some guidance and don't be afraid to ask for it.

Look after yourself and your loved ones. Be kind to people.

What skills do you have outside of front-end development? How many different frameworks do you know?

my new company just withdrew their offer (I started in a couple weeks) and I just left my previous gig (AV startup). backend+infra full stack python/go stuff

the new company's revenue went from 7 figures+ a month to 0 because of the virus and they are rightly freaking out

What's the difference between "mandatory unpaid leave" and "laid off"?

Consultant. Projects seem to be drying off (Same story for a couple of other friends as well).

My employer (Notion Labs, Inc) is trying to hire in this climate and finding it difficult.

we are hiring at https://getcloudapp.com. Looking for a strong ruby and rails developer who knows devops pretty well. Email is in my profile.

>mandatory unpaid leave

What does this mean, precisely? How is it different from firing staff?

I left my job, bootstrapped my startup (an AR Product). The product was tested, refined & ready by the end of February. The core of the product expects people to move & has significant location-based functionalities. I can't release it in the near future.

Not laid off, but I have been held back from a planned role transition (Agile Team Facilitator) so that I can continue contributing towards developer resource in the interim.

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Tray.io | London | Backend Engineer (Scala/Java) / Security Engineer / Frontend Engineer | Security Engineer| Site Reliability Engineer| Technical Support Administrator| Full-time | Onsite | https://tray.io

Tray is a visual programming platform. It’s a low-code user experience that allows anyone to build business logic that precisely defines how data flows through their organisation.

We’re a well-funded startup with a team in San Francisco and 100+ in our London Engineering HQ. We have secured a huge Series C in November this year, at over 8.5x the valuation of our Series A in March 2018; we’ve worked hard on creating a fantastic support layer for our technical teams and now we’re expanding. We’re small (approaching medium sized) and dynamic, very open to new ideas and the work you do now will have a big impact on shaping how we grow our team and our product.

We aim to pick the right tool for the job, and currently use: Typescript, React, Redux, GraphQL, and our toolchain includes Webpack and PostCSS. On the backend, our APIs are built in Scala, with Go and Java powering some of our custom services.

We are excited by people who want to constantly innovate; borrow from other industries, experiment with new tools and pool their knowledge with other solution seekers; people who have shipped entire projects with ownership and autonomy; people who take pride in what gets built, all the whilst balancing day-to-day pragmatism with building for the future.

Current open roles:

- Backend Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4586921002

- Systems Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

- Security Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4629664002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Performance) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4363932002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Design system) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4655086002 -Site Reliability Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

-Technical Support Administrator https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4675597002

Tech stack: Scala, Go, GraphQL, ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, Docker, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS & Linux.

Apply: https://tray.io/jobs or get in touch with london-talent@tray.io

Tray.io | London | Backend Engineer (Scala/Java) | Security Engineer | Frontend Engineer | Security Engineer| Site Reliability Engineer| Technical Support Administrator| Full-time | Onsite | https://tray.io

Tray is a visual programming platform. It’s a low-code user experience that allows anyone to build business logic that precisely defines how data flows through their organisation.

We’re a well-funded startup with a team in San Francisco and 100+ in our London Engineering HQ. We have secured a huge Series C in November last year, at over 8.5x the valuation of our Series A in March 2018; we’ve worked hard on creating a fantastic support layer for our technical teams and now we’re expanding. We’re small (approaching medium sized) and dynamic, very open to new ideas and the work you do now will have a big impact on shaping how we grow our team and our product.

We aim to pick the right tool for the job, and currently use: Typescript, React, Redux, GraphQL, and our toolchain includes Webpack and PostCSS. On the backend, our APIs are built in Scala, with Go and Java powering some of our custom services.

We are excited by people who want to constantly innovate; borrow from other industries, experiment with new tools and pool their knowledge with other solution seekers; people who have shipped entire projects with ownership and autonomy; people who take pride in what gets built, all the whilst balancing day-to-day pragmatism with building for the future.

Current open roles:

- Backend Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4586921002

- Systems Software Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

- Security Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4629664002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Performance) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4363932002

- Frontend Software Engineer (Design system) https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4655086002

-Site Reliability Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4370269002

-Technical Support Administrator https://boards.greenhouse.io/trayio/jobs/4675597002

Tech stack: Scala, Go, GraphQL, ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, Docker, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS & Linux.

Apply: https://tray.io/jobs or get in touch with london-talent@tray.io

The interview process happens completely remotely, and you will stay remote until the outbreak ends

NAN

I was trying to get back into the job market and was scheduled for my 3rd and final interview tomorrow. They canceled it and apologized. Told me hopefully they'll call me back in a month... I doubt they will.

Laid off:

No, I'm self employed (software business). That does not mean that I'm impervious to macroeconomic conditions, but it does mean I have developed a forecasting mindset that generally keeps me ahead of downturns.

Hiring:

No, not at the moment. But that doesn't have anything to do with COVID. I tend to hire very little and no one permanent.

Honestly, I struggle with tech people who run out of cash or say they can't get hired. I understand that not everyone can ace an interview or makes enough to save up a large cushion -- at the same time you have one of the most valuable / sought after skills in the market today.

A little late for this advice, but:

MAKE SURE YOU GET PAID WHAT YOU'RE WORTH AND SAVE SOME CASH. SOME AS IN MONTHS' OR YEARS' WORTH.

Really, you don't have to be "rich" to have a 1% level of financial stability. It's really about having enough cash to have enough time to weather a downturn or move into a new area without pooping your pants.

The response I usually get is "but x happened!". Yeah, no shit, that's the whole point. We can't see into the future but we can buffer cash.

If this downturn ends up hurting you -- learn from it!