Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?
I&#x27;ve been through the dotcom slaughter of 2000-2002 as a new grad (undergrad) and the comparatively small slowdown of 2008 (grad school new grad). Get ready to hit the Submit button... a lot. The stories of &quot;getting three job offers after four interviews at five companies&quot; are no longer reality. My application:interview:offer ratio has always varied from 50:5:1 to 100:10:1, and I would expect something like that or worse for the next ~12 months or however long it takes for tech CEOs to stop cargo culting each other&#x27;s panic. Unlike some advice you&#x27;re likely going to get in this thread, I&#x27;d highly recommend shotgunning your resume to as many viable tech companies as you can, and even looking at line-of-business programming at non-tech companies. Now is not really the time to be picky, especially if you&#x27;re on your own and have rent&#x2F;bills to pay or support your family.<p>I ended up close to insolvent during the 2008 recession, and I bit the bullet and took a terrible job just to get by. Be willing to swallow your pride and do the same if that&#x27;s what it takes. That little voice in the back of your head that says &quot;Well I just graduated from Stanford! Surely I can do better than this!&quot; Ignore it for now.