Ask HN: Who's firing?
I feel that the previous iteration of this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987) was interesting. A group of people looking together might also be very appealing to some companies.
"Who's firing" would just be a way to have a monthly rumors and gossip thread. There are already sites upon sites for that.
1) A high-level overview of companies I've kind of heard about that didn't work out for whatever reason, or are have hit big roadblocks. That's useful information.
2) Where to find people to actively reach out to, if there's a big group of people leaving there are good people looking for jobs. A lot of teams get formed from the ashes of other teams.
As to 2, I don't think that's what the site is really for. Who's hiring is already a sanctioned exception (there's also one for YC company job posts). Either way, though, such threads are much more likely to generate rumors and gossip than actionable information and you're likely to keep seeing it flagged off the front page. Might be worth emailing the mods if you feel it's that important but I'd be surprised if you can talk them into it.
Second would have to be "Who's Looking" or something, I guess it's done the other way around so candidates don't get hammered with 10k recruiter emails.
There haven't been great responses on this Ask HN, and looking back on the previous one it was also worse than I remembered. I've accepted that this isn't going to work out in practice.
How about instead, "Who's Looking?"
Edit: or a "recommend me an FTE candidate who can do X" - make X very specific, only accept answers from people vi PM, or some system such that you can validate your cress for the recommendation/their skills without revealing who is looking...
http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/sources-confirm-layoff...
- It's a massive sh-tstorm.
- It's raining pink-slips.
- AWS, Google, and Microsoft are about to get a flood of resumes.
(I'm sure there's more to this, but I'm about to drag myself off stage.)
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If you're curious about the company, it won't fail - having $170B in investment assets means you can pay people to fix whatever is broken - but the Tata Consultancy folks who were hired to replace us are definitely having some problems taking over all of the responsibilities we have left behind. I forsee a great deal of pain in their near future, but I'm sure they'll be fine in a few years - and I honestly wish them well.
As for me - if anyone out there is looking for a remote (or Toronto based) 17+ year IT veteran, with a sys admin / web development / DevOps skillset - feel free to send me an e-mail at debunn at yahoo dot com.
Also as expected the transition from ETS to TCS is not going well. Everyone I've spoken to that has direct contact with them is not pleased.
Our union (OPSEU) is meeting regularly to find out how to prevent this type of action in the future.
If they can just hold out until March 15...
(ducks)
This is just an interesting counter-post to the "Who's Hiring", allowing people to see both sides of the coin.
Seeing where organisations are contracting is both interesting for a view of technology in general, but also where to concentrate our hiring (or sales) efforts.