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> I can get to London by 9 if I get the first train in from Bristol, so travel isn't a huge issue

> a few of them were for companies hiring in my exact stack, while also saying they sponsor visas

So you are looking for a job at a very large company which will be ok with you commuting from Bristol to London and that will also sponsor you to move to America?? Thats an extremely specific company-search, I don't think its fair to say that that is any way representative of what its like for senior developers to find jobs.

Also google maps shows that the train from Bristol to London takes 1 hour 40min, so assuming it takes 30mins to the station on both sides, thats about 5 hours a day spent commuting, and I haven't even looked at the cost either. Even if you get 1-2 days a week working from home thats going to be a lot of travelling, as an employer I would be worried that after 6 months or so you will quit because of long commute times.

Nope, this would be to move to London. I'm in the nice position where I can afford to move/live there, and since most top companies are limited to London it makes sense to go there if I want to maximise my earnings.

So, this would be a developer with ten years experience looking for essentially "any" developer role in London. Easy, right? Apparently not. In the time it's taken me to reply to these messages I've had another rejection from JPMorgan Chase...

As an aside, I've done the commute from Bristol to London a few times for work, and while there are people that do it every day it's a killer, and you'd be lucky to get from Bristol Temple Meads to Liverpool Street at 9am if you get the first train in.

> Nope, this would be to move to London.

Ah ok, that makes a lot more sense then.

> So, this would be a developer with ten years experience looking for essentially "any" developer role in London.

Really? So you have been working in Bristol as a developer for 10 years but can't manage to get a job in London? Thats mad. At what stage to you get rejected? i.e. CV rejected, initial phonecall or in person interview? Do they give you any reasons?

Rejected at the CV stage. Oddly, the only company where I've had anything close to a phone call is Facebook, although they reached out to me rather than vice versa, mainly because my CV had a range of different languages that I had worked with in the last few years.

Initially, I thought it'd be something to do with my CV, but that wouldn't explain why I don't struggle to find work in Bristol - if anything I get hounded on LinkedIn a few times a day by recruiters in the South West.

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