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I got started with the LAMP stack but really enjoyed working with Node. I'm comfortable on the command line installing / running things, I've been doing linux based development my entire career with a few unfortunate exceptions where PHP was being run on IIS.
That could be part of the problem (older stack). Do you have any example projects/portfolio with newer tech?
Everybody else wants to give you hope. There is none. I am on a dozen slacks, and these stories of desparation are far too frequent. This downtown is far, far, far worse than 1993, 2000 and 2008. The privileged rich libertarian crypto bros who work at FAANG are all suffering from survivorship bias. Don’t let them makw you feel like shit, their hardships will come in a year or two as well. I am in the same boat. Nearl…
I'd tell you that your thought process is wrong, but fuck me I'm in the same boat. What makes it worse is the general perception that money is just raining in tech and I'm somehow deficient for not making millions when "everyone else" is. At least in many other industries like showbiz, people know it's hard to break in and make it. So expectations are set.
Just keep interviewing, in May my interview counter hit 50 for the year, and 6 interviews later I ended up with a job. I just saw every interview as a opportunity to get better at the process. If a leetcode style interview was mentioned, I would decline.
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If you are a young recent grad with FAANG experience on your resume, you will be fine. Otherwise, everyone I know struggles. Interviews are now involving more and more esoteric questions about things that aren't even on my resume, and sometimes questions about tools that can only be answered if you memorized the entire 1000 page handbook of the tool. I have been asked questions about things that were tangentially men…
May I ask where do you live? I am almost 40 with more than 15y of experience (and a master degree in computer engineering in the top university of my country) and I have to fend off recruiters (I usually do a job interview every other month just to stay sharp - love my current workplace and would not consider changing- and end getting an offer most of the times).
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Congratulations, in addition to demonstrating your incompetence in interviewing by giving feedback, you also demonstrated you are an asshole.
But keep believing you are where you are because of your hard work and skills.
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> Not at all, I've made the job market worse for you because you are incompetent, and that's precisely my goal. Congratulations, in addition to demonstrating your incompetence in interviewing by giving feedback, you also demonstrated you are an asshole. But keep believing you are where you are because of your hard work and skills.
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> Not at all, I've made the job market worse for you because you are incompetent, and that's precisely my goal. Congratulations, in addition to demonstrating your incompetence in interviewing by giving feedback, you also demonstrated you are an asshole. But keep believing you are where you are because of your hard work and skills.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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> Not at all, I've made the job market worse for you because you are incompetent, and that's precisely my goal. Congratulations, in addition to demonstrating your incompetence in interviewing by giving feedback, you also demonstrated you are an asshole. But keep believing you are where you are because of your hard work and skills.
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You've broken the site guidelines badly in other threads recently as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33282308. I don't want to ban you, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? We're trying for a forum that has thoughtful, respectful, curious conversation.