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Pretty bad. I’ve got a lot of experience as an IC, manager, and leader, and it doesn’t seem to matter; companies seem much more picky (“you were great but we want someone with more tenure in ”) or wedded to cargo cult methods (the leetcode places). I haven’t extensively tapped my network for referrals, but I get a bad vibe from those, too. I’ve hit up about six folks and they all came back empty - no opportunities, e…
There seem to be a lot of open positions, but I suspect not compared to the number of folks on the market. Big tech just dumped a bunch of folks. “Regular tech” seems to be doing fine.
I just can't find anything as a DevOps/SRE. I had only a few technical interviews over the past 3 months, didn't pay enough attention to details when fixing a broken python program during a live coding interview, not sure why I was rejected in another case. Other than that, I can't get past HR interview and even getting to that point is difficult, in most cases my job application are not even answered with a rejectio…
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> however is it all github copilot eating these jobs? Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and it's wild you think this might be the case.
You're delusional if you think that the rise of Generative AI hasn't been a factor in the relative difficulty of finding a job today.
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>I get a lot of 3rd party recruiters that seem to follow a similar: the recruiters are all people with south Asian names, calling from US numbers (I'm in Canada), with a vague job description, they want to hire me hourly, and they are cagey about the company that they are hiring me for. They ask for my CV, my work status, and what "project" I was on. I've heard of scams where fake recruiters use real peoples' names a…
How would that work? They have to get interviewed by the hiring company. I've never gotten to that stage via these 3rd party recruiters.
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There's also ageism at play
crazy that they claim to want 10+ years experience but also won't entertain the idea of a 20+ year old veteran. Where are all these mid-30's (assumedly) principles and staff engineers coming from, especially since no one wants to invest in junior engineers the past decade.
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> however is it all github copilot eating these jobs? Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and it's wild you think this might be the case.
You're delusional if you think that the rise of Generative AI hasn't been a factor in the relative difficulty of finding a job today.