If he had applied to 20 separate job postings they could have included a technical phone-screen, a "take-home" test, and a technical interview. Still a banana's amount of engagement for someone to receive in just 30-days though.
That being said and looking at the writer's LinkedIn profile he does appear to have a stellar resume, solid experience, and a large network.
It's like "last year at Burning Man was the last good year."
I suck at actual technical interviews due to anxiety, but I score exceptionally well with take home tests so thankfully I was able to land a job.
Where I live (and the areas I am able/willing to transfer to), the job market has proven quite difficult. But, it could also be that my resume isn't to par, or a lack of effective networking, or both. That's why I'd be interested in seeing the perspective from someone who is obviously having success landing interviews.
3 days from hearing about company, I had an offer.
Then was being pestered about background check.
Wait, how did I get to this point? I wasn’t even really interested.
Few days later offer was withdrawn since I hadn’t completed paperwork.
Overall I’m glad I didn’t accept, they clearly had a very inflated opinion of themselves and how eager everyone would be to join.
It’s probably your fault, but it’s still a huge WTF just happened moment
Saw the not-filling paperwork/red tape in a timely manner used as a signal first-hand to screen out a perfectly-acceptable (technical-wise) candidate. Combined with a perceived lack of enthusiasm in personality for the role (which I could easily put down to a manager who has a specific idea in mind of "enthusiasm", and doesn't mesh well with a wider variance of personality types), it was a one-two punch the candidate could not recover from, and lost out to a slightly more junior tech.
People entering the market now talk about it like it's a complete wasteland. Apparently entry-level 'learn-on-the-job' tech work is extremely competitive and difficult to access for new graduates these days. If you're already 'in' and have a network and experience it's still largely like the glory days, but getting to that level is supposedly much more difficult now.
(To be fair to any younger people reading this, my entry-level tech job was at $28k/yr and I worked restaurants and bars until I was able to move on, so it's not like I got a degree and someone threw $150k at me to intern. It took a lot of work, even in the glory days)
This probably contributes to a very competitive situation for traditional entry-level "actually I need to learn this job once I get there" candidates.
- The economy was in a slump and was going to get worse
- The job market was in its way situation ever
- All the good ideas had been taken, no hanging fruits anymore
- It was a bad time to study CS/law/medicine/engineering/math/physics
- The good times were over
- More and more people were "leaving the field"
To get a job at a startup, have an app portfolio.
To get a job at a Big N, go to an elite university, another Big N, or grind Leetcode for months.
To get a job at a corporation, grind Leetcode and have recruiters spam your resume.
Different jobs require different applicants. A balanced, general approach, would be to do 1 Leetcode problem and send 1 application per day. It'd be hard to still be underemployed after doing that for any while.
Show an ability to survive in the different constraints unique to each type of software engineering job
Not trying to razz you here, but I don't quite follow how this is an application of it. Could you elaborate a bit?
(edit: rats, I took too long to try to word this request tactfully)
What does this mean? Do you mean the applicant to spam recruiters with their resume? Or use Leetcode directly for hiring, because corpos will hire through Leetcode?
Where are you? The market is roaring here in Canada.