Tell HN: These Are Tough Times

by abadger9 on 1/20/2023, 2:19:27 AM with 12 comments
I was looking in my old email account and enjoyed seeing the liveliness of communication in old comms from companies like HortonWorks, Firebase, Whatsapp. Firstly, I feel communications with recruiters is so cold now (e.g, hello, yes the interview works, ok you've been rejected/move on to next round) and two I feel like silicon valley eight to tweleve years ago was a much friendlier place. I don't feel the same appeal from startup names now as companies like Klout, etc. carried back then - maybe each company is working on a little smaller niche of the industry, maybe I've gotten too old to appreciate crypto, but it was nice seeing how enthusiastic, hopeful, and happy silicon valley was a decade a go.

  • by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm on 1/20/2023, 2:24:39 AM

    Money, through the arrival of the masses?, has really sucked the Internet and IT dry.

    Back then it was "build cool shit".

    Now it is "extract cool dollars".

  • by dudul on 1/20/2023, 2:36:16 AM

    I've never bought into the "making the world a better place" meme. Even 10 years ago. However, I do certainly agree that back in the days recruiters were much better at communicating and some would even have add actual value to the job searching/interviewing process. Nowadays I might as well be speaking to a bot.

  • by j-rom on 1/20/2023, 4:10:01 AM

    I think all the interpersonal connection eventually got removed since it started becoming more overtly about the money.

  • by JSeymourATL on 1/21/2023, 5:20:11 PM

    > communications with recruiters is so cold now…

    True-

    Worse still, Hiring Managers completely divorced from the recruiting process.

    And C-Levels execs whine they can’t find the right “talent”… Hilarious!

  • by the_only_law on 1/20/2023, 3:05:20 PM

    I don’t know what happened, but around mid-December I just stopped getting any contact from recruiters.

  • by nodemaker on 1/20/2023, 3:32:32 AM

    Keep calm and build your ai avatar app :)