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Should we also hide the names of the universities we went to and the names of former employers we worked at?
Confused, what are you implying?
Instead, find the hiring manager on Linkedin and their email on hunter.io and directly reach out.
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Junior engineer. Hundreds of applications across 3 months. Nothing but silence and automated rejections. It's got me feeling so down that I'm just going to leave the private sector for military. Get some training, have some job security, benefits, and hopefully wait out the horrible market.
Are you only looking regionally or across your whole country? (Presumably the US)
I don't question that is takes hard work, even for more senior devs like the author, but 30 apps leading to 3 offers is a dream. Most early-career people are probably at >100 app with maybe a few interviews and hopefully one offer.
This has not been my experience at all. I've been at 6 positions in my time and applied to maybe 15
Recruiter here on Switzerland's market. All I can say is: Don't apply for jobs online. We get spammend like there is no tomorrow. Instead, find the hiring manager on Linkedin and their email on hunter.io and directly reach out.
I'd assume that contacting hiring managers directly might lead to better chances, but aren't 200 other people doing the same?
I believe the current hiring woes in the US are more nefarious than just being picky. First, I believe US companies are figuring out how to hire foreign teams at lower cost. I get multiple emails per week from companies offering us their team at low rates. South America and India are common places. I personally witnessed this at my last company where they drastically cut US/North America staff in favor of Indian team…
I've been saying for years that NA software devs should fight to RTO. If you can do do your job remotely, so can people across the world who will do it for 5x less.
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A business only makes sense if they're aiming to be better than others at a specific angle. They need to get the very best for their particular thing that makes them different. Other roles obviously don't matter as much.
Indeed. For tech companies and a few non-tech companies but with a strong tech environment (think HFT), IT is where you gain an edge on your competitors. Everywhere else, you win customers because of better prices, negotiating nice deals with suppliers, great salespeople and a good SEO presence, and so on, not because you use the latest Kubernetes version that finally introduces support for that sweet annotation you…
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I am pretty tolerant when it comes to not knowing things or time for learning new skills. With this fast changing industry i can not help it but tolerating. But when i catch someone lying at least twice about something technical, i do my part to make sure the person is not hired or next to leave. There is no trust.
An engineer who can’t admit they don’t know something when it matters is actively harmful to the work of engineering.
a bad engineer.
I never understood why being a developer has to be so wearisome. Why is it expected that any software dev has to have encyclopedic knowledge of Java, Javascript, Python, Go, different dialects of SQL, along with scripting stuff like bash and awk; ansible, chef and terraform; has to know 50 different AWS services; tons of different database types and their implementations; need to know common vulnerability types and understand how DNS, TCP-IP, http, websockets, and other protocols work; must know how to invert a binary tree in zero-gravity; their GitHub activity graph should look like an aerial view of the Amazon forest; they must maintain a blog; speak at conferences, and once in a while write a dissertation paper. And all that still is not enough because they have to excel at interviews. At several different types of them - algorithms and data structures, language-specific, framework-specific, pair programming interview, design systems interview, product interview, company and industry-specific, take-home project interview, tech talk, and personality interview.
Why is it that even when it feels like "you've made it," and you finally have a job at some big company, you still can't feel safe? Why do you constantly have to be in "finding a job mode" instead of building stuff and fixing problems? Sigh...
Only six of thirty companies didn't reply... Maybe that's a European thing, but in the USA I find the vast majority of companies never reply.