How is your job search going?

I've been looking for most of the past year.

My back is against the wall. I've applied to more companies than I can keep track of. I've exhausted my savings. Friends and family have already helped as much as they can. I'm days away from having some life changing situational events happen.

I've recently seen a small uptick in interviews, but over the last year almost nothing has moved past the initial call/zoom meeting.

I managed to pick up a single contract in September but that ended after a month (founder ran out of cash).

I've never seen the job market this bad in the last 15 years, and that's even including the 2007/8 financial crisis.

If anyone has any kind of role, no matter how junior, please contact me asap.

Where are you located? It's awful here in the UK.

I'm my experience live technical assessments are mostly just luck, especially when interviewers are being overly opinionated about how things should be done. When you're a certain level of seniority anything in your code which isn't a mistake is typically a debatable decision. Formatting, naming, where and when to optimise, what patterns to use and avoid, etc... And there will always be things you miss, that's what code reviews are for at the end of the day.

Just keep looking and try to not let rejections get to you. It's a difficult market for software engineers and employers have all the power right now.

My guess is that in the new year things will pick up a little. We're seeing some positive news on the economic front right now and my guess is that there will be more a bit appetite for investors to start putting capital to work in tech again next year. It's probably not going back to what it was a few years ago, but I think there's a good chance the market will be noticeably less difficult.

I'm in London. Today was a low point. I've been slowly expanding the aperture of what I would be open to doing, and haven't been going for volume applications because of my weird background.

The last few rejections have really shaken me because I (to my detriment) get invested. As best I can tell I'm perfect, get a first round interview, excitement builds, then get rejected...

For me a big learning is that your CV and fit ONLY serves to get you into the first round. They do NOT get to the end and then 'add up' everything they know about you, such that being outstanding in terms of relevant experience can offset whatever petty box ticking result they get from the interview. You have to be perfect in the interview. Provide perfect examples of your experiences. Precisely detailed and structured answers. Highlight impressive outcomes.

It simply doesn't matter what you have done, in that interview if you don't bring it you are kicked from the process. It hurts.

I can't help feeling like I am wired wrong if I can't give them what they want.

Not as good as it used to be. I'm a backend developer with around 8 years of experience.

I actually received 2 offers today, the first two in like a month. One is not for me, and I don't think I'm ready for the other one. I'm having a big imposter syndrome lately. I guess I need some time to learn more stuff and collect my thoughts.

It's grim seeing seniors struggling to get jobs. As a junior, I'm eagerly awaiting my cue to start applying again. That is, once the deluge of threads about struggling seniors abates, which has been happening for quite a while and doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon.

I hope you guys make it, because if you can't, that means I definitely can't.

I'm fully employed as a staff engineer at a midcap company and applied to a handful of job posts on LinkedIn last month just to test the waters. No replies from anyone.

Pretty terrible in LA.

I was laid off two months ago. I haven’t been able to find an internal transfer team. I had two interviews but they both went for other candidates

I have one interview left. No more hits from applications, no more recruiter contacts and no more people I can ask for referrals. I’m burnt out from studying

Now I am being fairly picky at this stage, trying to aim for roles at big tech that can match my previous compensation.

If this last interview falls through I’m going to take a few weeks to focus on my mental and physical health. I’ve gained 10 pounds the past two months and stopped working out. So I’ll start with that. Then when I’m in a better place emotionally I’ll resume and expand my search.

Luckily I’ve been following r/financialindependence since I started working so I have a wealth of savings I can pull from to pay for my life while I find a job

Southern Europe, software dev with 7 years of experience, have touched backend, frontend, and infrastructure as code on AWS and Azure.

Left my previous job last month, and got a new job just a few days after. Got really bad vibes, and left literally during the first week of having started.

Either I just wasted all my luck on that one opportunity, or that wasn't luck in the first place. Time will tell.

So my search just began again. Since we're at the end of the year I'm not too optimistic on even getting any interviews at all. Being realistic, I'm probably going to get ghosted for a few months and I'm mentally preparing for that.

Has anyone in Europe have a role for me? I am looking to relocate to any place in EU.

I have 2yrs of experience (and lot of experience with Open Source from long before that). I mostly work on Rust,Go,Python and Javascript (also Java). I have worked on Backend(microservices,DB,grpc),Frontend(react and svelte) and bit of devops(had written kubernetes code once).

Try using TJ Alerts[0]. Created it specifically for this use case. It's free. Has a bunch of cool filters and sorts (+ semantic search). Would love to hear your opinion. Will try to make it paid soon.

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Have you considered a Federal job? Low pay compared to the private sector but tons of benefits and high quality of life. https://www.usajobs.gov/

It's below average. I am not really hard-pressed to make a job change, but I have been interviewing a bit over the past few months. If you are really in need of a job I would study up on system design, behavioral interview patterns and a bit of leetcode-style programming problems.

From my experience, employers are being very very picky. I have been through full rounds at a couple of places with positive feedback, but they have all gone with other candidates. It seems like if you misstep once during a single interview round, your chances fall dramatically.

Full transparency: I have not put in a lot of time preparing for these interviews, probably explains a lot xD

Could one say at this point that a bubble is popping in tech? Fewer people than ever seem to be talking about starting up projects around here. Move and more talk about job-hunting. Can’t tell if it’s just me becoming disillusioned…

With my few years in med-edu-tech start-up experience as a PM, I recently came across an unexpected opportunity to go back into film production. Low-pay but high-prestige apprenticeship back-to-square-one sort of situation, but I’m just young enough to still pass off as a viable junior.

> Today I got technical feedback on an assessment (making a gRPC server in Rust)

Did you interview at Helsing? Pretty sure that their test was something like this.

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I got an "offer" recently, but they expected a 2 weeks trial period, and 10-12 hour days.

not too great. not a single response. like throwing job apps into a blackhole.