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mixtiebooon Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

This is a topic, I really dont want to comment on:

But here it goes:

Job sites are spam. Supply and demand is all that matters. People who suck got laid off. So what. These companies are incredibly dysfunctional at hiring ANYBODY in software. That includes FAANG.

Software Engineering is no longer a respectable career regardless of pay. The reason is that the goal of "de-professionalizing" software engineers since the mid-90s has been accomplished within 15 years since 2005.

This de-professionalizing effort was the purpose and reason for the H1-B program expansion during the Bush and Obama administrations.

The main drivers behind it were Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Neither of whom wanted to pay engineers, (Bill G was more entrenched though as he said in the 90s he wanted to pay software engineers 6-7 dollars an hour)

Unfortunately for both Bill G and Steve J they were caught (red-handed by the way) not only trying to fix engineer wages, create blacklists but also trying to "KILL JAVA" which is all on DOJ grand jury testimony video recordings you can access yourself. Fortunately (for them), however, the US govt cares not about what it pretends to care about in public.

So the GOOD news is: Tech hiring is corrupt, managers are usually going to be gone after they fail to build their "kingdom" which they ALWAYS do and even in a market "full" of genuises and apprentices, noone will read your resume anyway.

Because IT hiring is and has been a scam for almost 2 decades.

Does that answer your question?

Good luck.

mixtiebooon How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success

The cheesecake factory is a perfect example, of corporatist food delivery to a table within a space.

to most people who arent looking that closely it appears to be a restaurant. To people who are looking its a dirty factory of unhappy employees, with disgusting food that noone wants to eat.

But their mom dragged them there.

The cheesecake factory defined the disgusting corporate approach to insulting americans on a daily basis and will likely be out of business within a few months if its not already.

Also I would add, a big proponent and adherent of CF are people wearing GAP and OLD Navy Labels.

AKA: foreigners looking for a slice of american pie.

I wouldnt be surprised if they are cooking the books to go SPAC