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Software engineers are used to companies fighting over them. Now we're in a market where it's normal to have lots of experience yet be unemployed for months. So it's a shock for many (though not atypical when compared to plenty of other fields of knowledge work, as you note).
How about ghost jobs? This is a newish phenomena and wonder if it affects other sectors than IT.
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FYI, the personal projects might be a detriment rather than a help as it may come across as "this person will have split priorities or might leave to pursue individual interests" For better or worse, I might not showcase those that much.
Those projects can be demonstrating your skill/ability in all areas - testing, docs, UI/UX/DX, support, project management, sales/marketing and more. But now you're possibly (likely?) coming across as more accomplished than the rest of the team, and somehow you think you know more than others who've been at the company for years.
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Very impressive resume. Why only 30-40 applications? Are you looking for a relatively niche role? As someone who graduated into the great recession, "normal" to me still feels like 1000 applications is the bare minimum.
That is completely bananas, no?
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This is why I’ve given up on software. I loved it, made side projects in college, got my computer science degree, worked for a couple years and then got laid off early in 2023. It’s been a year and a half and I still can not find a new job. I have not coded in god knows how long, I don’t find it enjoyable anymore. In fact I almost despise it. I’ve decided to join the military instead.
Merely for your consideration: if you are able to pass the security clearance then you can "join the military" by applying to CISA or the NSA, as I am certain they'll be glad to get all the computer science help they can The bad news is that I'm mostly talking second-hand since I only know people who have gone that path, without having tried it myself
It is. It really is. I had posted something about jobs and looking for jobs some time before here, but the best advice I can give is that all of this "What color is your rainbow" and "Cracking the coding interview" and so on isn't really applicable or it never seemed applicable to me and my experience. To expand on my previous comment, I'm now on my 9th job in 10 years. Over the last year or so I've had another 30-40…
>To expand on my previous comment, I'm now on my 9th job in 10 years. How does this work for you? I feel like by the time you would "ramp up" and actually start to have a good idea of the job you'd be moving on
As for ramp up, I always jump in with both feet and ask for tasks and its really domain that you need to figure out. I've worked in a lot of different fields (I think no 2 jobs were in the same field) so I've gotten accustomed to quickly figure out those few processes that keep the lights on in most roles.
Writing software is the easy part. Figuring out the domain is the longer task.
On red flags or that this is a red flag - I don't really care. I've had it mentioned maybe in... 3 jobs and got offers from 2 and rejected both. I'm not here to be questioned around that aspect as I make the decisions that make the most sense for me. Companies do the same for themselves. I'll reconsider once I see C-level pay not be 50 times minimum wage in a company and when executive members give up their salaries/bonuses during downturn to keep people on-board or retrain/redirect the company. In the meantime, I probably care about your company as much as you do about me.
Hope this helps!
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That has not been my experience consulting at many big videogame companies. Lately my bread and butter is fixing legacy game engines. I have yet to meet a ciswoman tech lead who can do this work.
When I studied comp sci around 2000, women were actively discouraged from continuing their classes by professors. During an oral exam, a prof told a female friend of mine that women had no place in comp sci. As a result, not many women graduated, so two decades ago, there were just fewer women in the field in general. I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as a "legacy game engine", but given the small number of women w…