Hey everyone, I can't believe it's issue #10 already. I had the idea of this newsletter back in January 2020—now I can't stop thinking about where this could have been in all these years. I hope you will enjoy this issue. It has been a busy week, from DeepStack and AI stocks falling the entire GDP of some medium-size countries in Europe to federal layoffs and hiring freezes. What a crazy period to live in, right?
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Here are some of the best links I read in the last week:
#FAVORITES
Life lessons from the first half-century of my career (acm.org) -- comments
How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear (sfgate.com) -- comments
Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies (seangoedecke.com) -- comments
Employers Would Rather Hire AI Than Gen Z Graduates: Report -- /r/Futurology/
Why Tech Employees Are Ready to Revolt -- /r/recruitinghell/
A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work (mertbulan.com) -- comments
What was your "HR has an HR question" moment? [N/A] -- /r/humanresources/
I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (rongarret.info) -- comments
Explainer: What's r1 and everything else? (timkellogg.me) -- comments
Sourcing talent is so challenging. Burnout. -- /r/recruiting/
#HACKERNEWS
Did Remote Work Drive the Global Surge in Job Openings? (mikekonczal.substack.com) -- comments
JD Vance says Big Tech has "too much power" (cbsnews.com) -- comments
2025 will likely be another brutal year of failed startups, data suggests (techcrunch.com) -- comments
Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith (vincentschmalbach.com) -- comments
Job trends of HN Who Is Hiring? (hnhiring.com) -- comments
NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring (science.org) -- comments
US pauses all federal aid and grants (bbc.com) -- comments
No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones (popularfintech.com) - comments
The "First AI Software Engineer" Is Bungling the Vast Majority of Tasks It's Asked to Do -- /r/programming/
How Often Do You Meet With Hiring Managers ? -- /r/recruiting/
Trump administration offering buyouts to nearly all federal workers -- /r/recruitinghell/
Built a fun meeting cost calculator [N/A] -- /r/humanresources/
Did Trump just eliminate the OFCCP? [United States] -- /r/humanresources/
The federal work force is being dismantled by Elon Musk: Fork In The Road Email and OPM Guidance [United States] -- /r/humanresources/
For fun- if you are a department of one. [N/A] -- /r/humanresources/
Is the HR field getting extremely competitive? Unemployed for too long. [N/A] -- /r/humanresources/
Is the current climate pushing anyone else out of HR? [USA] -- /r/humanresources/
Job market forcing me out of HR, unsure of what to do next [n/a] -- /r/humanresources/
Edgy but I don’t feel like recruitment is like sales at all and we shouldn’t be treating it that way. -- /r/recruiting/
Has anyone successfully changed careers from recruitment? -- /r/recruiting/
How long do you all give candidates to accept/decline an offer? -- /r/recruiting/
Am I stuck in agency forever? Agency not doing well, want to go corporate willing to relocate. Advice? -- /r/recruiting/
I hope you will enjoy this newsletter!
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