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The lesson here is to be overemployed, do at least one interview process a quarter, and understand that companies don't give AF about you.

I wanted to get out of my office basement and into something that was close by, I went to a WeWork in my locality and while it was a nice space overall, I was astounded by both how expensive, and how empty, it was. For less I was able to find an office space that was closer to my house, owned and operated by a local company, and was larger.

grpcurl and httpie are so good it's ridiculous.

I'd love to move to NY but yeah, I have kids now and moving them from the acreage and amazing school district we have now is just not really an option.

Yeah, same. If you're a specialist and happen to have an in-demand skillset (backend, dist sys, GoLang), the volume of offers has been lower but still getting plenty of interest.

they were literally trying to recruit me last week

"Companies have been pumping and dumping for years, buoyed by cheap labor, and have not been intelligent enough to invest long term. And now, they're sad."

FTFY

Okay, George Washington. You sure showed me the error of my ways.

I feel exactly zero sympathy for companies at this point. Y'all have spent years suppressing wages, making candidates jump through all kinds of hoops, and encourage a "fake it 'til you make it" culture among founders.

Now someone pulls some dirty, saucy tricks on you and you're crying about? Cry me a fucking river. Boo hoo.

> That seems like a pretty whacky theory to me because it assumes that companies only increase prices when forced to do so, and not just because they can.

It comes across especially wacky to me as price hikes have outstripped wage hikes. Considering wages and purchasing power has flatlined for workers, but productivity has greatly increased, seems like there's a lot of people getting fleeced.

> The truth is a significant portion of managers, in my experience, are not particularly well suited to the task or are incompetent on some level.

Competent managers are few and far between, Steve Jobs said/did a lot of stupid crap but one cogent point he made was that the best managers are the ones who never wanted to be a manager, they just went and did it because they were sick of dealing with incompetent managers.

This is biggest crock of shit I've ever read.

So basically every software engineer interview... ever.

Woah get out of here with your nuanced approach, this is the Hackernews comment section.