A friend of mine was a PM at amazon and was part of the layoffs earlier in the year. Hasn't had any response to their applications, only 1 interview from a referral but it wasn't a good fit.
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#22I find myself wondering if my email is broken. Which is to say I get very little reply.
Compare this to a year ago when I got a reply to almost every application I sent out.
I'm kind of kicking myself for being so picky; I haven't had a job in a few years and running out of money (I was never that well-off, but coming from a working-class background I don't live an expensive life). I've had a few bad experiences and I wanted to find something I really liked (I actually had a very well paid "Silicon Valley type" job for a company most here will know last year which I quit after 3 months because they gave me fuck all to do and I felt their engineering ethos was horrible – it just didn't feel right accepting a huge salary and not working for it).
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#23I think I’m screwed.
I can’t get interviews anymore. Every now and then I get one and it goes nowhere, and I almost never make it past the first round. My LinkedIn profile views now show mostly as “salespeople” instead of recruiters.
I’ve lost a lot of money thanks to emergency expenses that happened towards the beginning and have been steadily bleeding my savings through general cost of living. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to keep it up, but at this point I’m pretty much convinced I’ll run out of money before I can get a new job.
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#24I think I’m screwed. I can’t get interviews anymore. Every now and then I get one and it goes nowhere, and I almost never make it past the first round. My LinkedIn profile views now show mostly as “salespeople” instead of recruiters. I’ve lost a lot of money thanks to emergency expenses that happened towards the beginning and have been steadily bleeding my savings through general cost of living. I’m not sure how much…
Can you please share what is the main reason you believe you're getting rejected or passed on?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean to tell me that they don't wanna hire seniors in your area? Idk the market seems to be looking mainly for senior+.
They want senior+ who are <35yo, but then when they interview the 35yo for a senior position, they give them an offer for a non-senior role so they can pay them less.
I thought you didn’t need to disclose your age when applying in Australia?
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#26Pretty dismal.
Fortunately, a friend of mine needed dev help with his growth stage company so I've been keeping the lights on contracting and sort of price gouging my hourly rate.
That said, I've really been hoping to land another proper full-time gig. On that front, things are not looking good. I had about a year under my belt as a newly transitioned (4YOE SWE 1YOE TPM) TPM so I'm sort of double fucked. Tech companies don't want to hire flip flopping devs and product people with less than a year of experience are basically un hire-able.
It's been four months, but at least I have some income to show for it. Had maybe three interviews, two recruiters reach out in this entire time. Probably around 100 applications.
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#27A friend of mine was a PM at amazon and was part of the layoffs earlier in the year. Hasn't had any response to their applications, only 1 interview from a referral but it wasn't a good fit.
As I've found, PM roles are actually far less abundant than you'd think. In most cases, 3-5yrs of exp is expected. Wish your friend luck with their job search.
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#29It's fine. I have been getting a lot of inbound and am in the loop for most applications I've sent out. The doomspelling of the tech job market is both overly exaggerated and heavily biased toward experiences of junior and intermediate developers. If you have a decade or more of experience, it's business as usual.
> If you have a decade or more of experience, it's business as usual.
Other's experiences may suggest it's not. Some experienced people spend more than half a year - and sometimes more than a year - to get an offer, even a modest one. 12-18 months ago the situation was reportedly better.
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#30I think I’m screwed. I can’t get interviews anymore. Every now and then I get one and it goes nowhere, and I almost never make it past the first round. My LinkedIn profile views now show mostly as “salespeople” instead of recruiters. I’ve lost a lot of money thanks to emergency expenses that happened towards the beginning and have been steadily bleeding my savings through general cost of living. I’m not sure how much…
Can you please share what is the main reason you believe you're getting rejected or passed on?
Not really for the interviews. I can definitely recognize some mistakes during most of them, but nothing really common to all them.
If I had to guess, I imagine that in this market, there are just a lot of other people seeking work with much more impressive resumes.