Is your GitHub account private? I’m getting a 404
It worked fine for me.
Also worked fine for me.
Ask HN: Why can't I get interviews or offers anymore?
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#12Is your GitHub account private? I’m getting a 404
GitHub has been giving me 404s for the past few days, on my own repositories. Appears to be totally random. Comes and goes on its own.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I get interviews or offers anymore?
#13The job market is shit right now, and it's nearing the holidays on top of that.
You need to assume that it will take hundreds of applications. It's partly a numbers game.
Maybe try mock interviews if you can afford it? Like with interviewing.io.
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#14So for me getting interviews has been a numbers game. I tried customizing my resume, and gave up after a few hundred tries and no responses.
Now I’ve built https://tangerinefeed.net and am using to it to apply to tons of jobs every day. No offers yet, but a handful of interviews at least.
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#15Everyone I know is in a similar situation. The tech sector saw thousands of layoffs and a decrease in free money. You're competing against hordes of ex FAANG-ers for limited opportunities during a market downturn.
Half my office was laid off and anecdotally, everyone I know is having trouble finding work.
Hang in there :(
Now might be the time to reach out to your old networks and see if any of them are unofficially hiring. I sent out dozens of applications too and didn't hear back, but reached out to an old contact and they hired me on the spot.
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#16Your resume reads as if it was written to appeal to an engineer. Write one that appeals to a manager. Talk less about what you did in your previous roles and more about "the business value you provided" in your previous roles. If in doubt, pretend you're your own boss trying to get a raise. What would you say about you to justify it? Specifically, I got my current job (in September) because I was able to tell a story…
That only works once he's in interviews and people are looking at his resume. He's not getting to the interviews, which means the resume/portfolio doesn't check off enough boxes to the recruiter/hiring manager.
Some things on the resume that help:
1. Ivy league education.
2. FAANG listed in past experience.
3. A slew of technologies listed.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I get interviews or offers anymore?
#17Your resume reads as if it was written to appeal to an engineer. Write one that appeals to a manager. Talk less about what you did in your previous roles and more about "the business value you provided" in your previous roles. If in doubt, pretend you're your own boss trying to get a raise. What would you say about you to justify it? Specifically, I got my current job (in September) because I was able to tell a story…
That only works once he's in interviews and people are looking at his resume. He's not getting to the interviews, which means the resume/portfolio doesn't check off enough boxes to the recruiter/hiring manager. Some things on the resume that help: 1. Ivy league education. 2. FAANG listed in past experience. 3. A slew of technologies listed.
No one cares about an Ivy education in tech, it's worth about as much as a state school. The programs are completely devoid of rigor. Now CMU or MIT might raise some eyebrows in a good way but there's maybe 3 or 4 schools in the country that are 'notable' for CS.
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#18I'm a software engineer who switched over to working beside Sales as a Sales Engineer. Referrals are the key to getting customers or getting a job.
Reach out to previous co-workers, managers, vendors you've spoken to, anyone. There's bound to be someone who has a broken website that needs to be fixed. It's more effective to spend two hours applying to one job via a warm lead than it is to send 100 applications out to cold leads.
Lowering your salary expectations won't help that much. If someone were optimizing for cost, they'd outsource to Southeast Asia or India.
Good luck!
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#19Market is horrible and I'm at my wits end as well. Wait it out while employment gap gets larger is not a good idea as well.
Re: Ask HN: Why can't I get interviews or offers anymore?
#20have you tried a staffing agency? Like Kforce? Also Try TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Capgemini, HCL. Best of luck.