UK IT job searching broken

Its been a year of searching, a handful of interviews at best, recent interviews have had disinterested interviewers reading a script and not listening to answers.

Having worked and consulted over the past decade, I just don't understsnd how broken things are.

how are people surviving in this environment, I feel being pushed to the edge and ready to snap.

me too

Work offshored, look up eastern Europe/SEA if you still wanna work as a coder...

is it just interest rates causing this? Seems almost impossible to be seen let alone heard. I've been thinking the ATS is causing lots of issues, but I've noticed how narrow roles and requirements have become.

I got lucky with a US startup.

At first I wasn't satisfied with working their hours, so I kept applying for UK firms.

(I've since adjusted with lazy mornings and no sociability in the evenings.)

But there's nothing. I mean nothing. Lots of companies putting out the exact same job listings, month after month, and I refuse to believe that they haven't found the right candidate after 6 months of continuous interviews.

They're either projecting growth but not actually hiring, or are waiting for someone to tell them that they'd happily work for almost nothing.

Then there's the horror stories of the major re-orgs happening at large companies, and the hire-and-dump schemes that seem to be prevalent. Who would have thought that small startups were the stable ones? It's a shitshow.