https://matt.sh/panic-at-the-job-market
Comments : Panic at the Job Market | Hacker News
If things are that bad, and they’re likely worse, then it seems like it’s an era for scammers. It also seems like it’s an era for scammers with the countless scam callers that exist because they’re getting money from old and fearful people, and because there are companies that get paid to hack social engineer elections with fake social media accounts, and to advertise that way.
At that point, I think it becomes really important to know where the cracks in things are forming. Both for people that might fall into those cracks, and for the owners of the systems that are starting to break, both of which would normally be taken advantage of by scammers. The owners might be desperate and would pay for a fix, and the people that fall into the cracks that couldn’t be fixed are often competent people that can solve problems if given the chance.
I suppose I could make an LLM system that read over glassdoor reviews, looked over their main codebases, and checked over profiles of companies and summarized them to tell where these cracks would form based on reviews and profiles of former companies (which probably wont have ‘p meta’ texts targeting those LLMs like the article). Then, some unemployed people might be quite happy to find an easy startup idea because a sole or major supplier of something just went bankrupt.
That’s kind of a different solution than the article seemed to be going for, but I like the idea of being able to see what’s going on better. I’d like to be able to find the position where I can give useful advice to the well meaning people rather than the scammers. So far I’m only finding people by their reactions against communities and can’t do much immediately.
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If things are that bad, and they’re likely worse - well said 
I cant comment or speculate more than already said re ‘bullshit’ in the tech market (see https://x.com/internetofshit, and articles about ‘bullshit.’ I wont bother about Glassdoor reviews either, artificial enforced ‘company culture’ in those companies goes often til the whole team is laid off.
Things got certainly out of control. So many new startups looking for their way in but often and ultimately disrupting existing markets with no apparent benefits though (Facebook, Uber). I left this world also because of the insane amounts of taxpayer money and talent being wasted. There are just a handful companies who do actually have an interest in their employees.
There are a couple of tools, ‘osr-search’ and ‘osr-ai’ that were initially designed finding leads, downloading data from GoogleMaps, going from continent down to town-level, using keywords and other filters. It spits out a good chunk of data per business, reviews, summaries, website status, … Didnt proceed much but I am really curious how a database with meaningful data could assist the economy
Here a script to search GoogleMaps, for every country in Europe
"osr-cli-commons each", "--main=osr-search googlemaps --source='${OSR_ROOT}/osr-directory/meta/global/search/europe.json' --searchFrom='${KEY}' --language=en --google_domain=google.es --limit=250 --findEMail=true --location='${KEY}' --filterCountry='${KEY}' --metra=true --cache=true --dst='./${CATEGORY}/${QUERY}.xls' --filterContinent=Europe --headless=true", "--list='${OSR_ROOT}/osr-directory/meta/global/europe/europe.json'", "--cwd='${OSR_ROOT}/osr-directory/meta/global/europe/${KEY}'", "--root='${OSR_ROOT}/osr-directory/meta/global/europe/'", "--debug=false", "--trace=true"
Still looking for a good approach to corelate data found on Social-Media.
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