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I feel for him but honestly what he's been through is small potatoes. Been looking in earnest for 1 month now. I've done about 10 take-homes, 20 codility-style, a couple personality and IQ ones, numerous screens...

Yes. Hiring is totally broken. And/or there is an glut of devs out there to the point where landing a decent offer is really hard if you're going the traditional way (i.e. not having someone from inside rooting for you).

My job market is EU.

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I've been looking since the end of October, since getting laid off. Had quite a lot of interviews, passed the majority of technicals given, etc, but did not receive any offers. At the end of January I said fuck it and am now in the process of building the foundation for my small business. The job hunting process is incredibly disheartening and stressful, and I'd rather put that energy to use rather than waste.

US/NY market here

Best of luck with your endeavor.

I've come to the same conclusion, that it's easier and more profitable to create and sell your own application than to do the hiring song and dance, especially in the long term.

Good luck if you think it is easier! By the way, have you created a profitable business before?

I have never made a profitable startup before, wish me luck.

I know, because if you had, you wouldn't have said it was easier than a stable job. Good luck becoming profitable before you run out of cash. And if you think getting a job is hard, wait till you try to raise money when you do run out of cash!

Not at all. Making a profitable business is super hard and you need a lot of luck. I have done it and it is hard work.

If you have not done so already buy a copy of Cracking The Coding Interview and take a few weeks off applying anywhere to work your way through it. Most modern interviews are tests of how recently you have read this one book. Good luck!

That's not much of a problem. At least not for me. I pass most of these interviews. But still... Anyway. It's probably too early to get to conclusions but I just wanted to highlight that it has been abnormally hard, long and at times surreal up to now.

Where in the EU? Where would you be willing to move to? What role would you like to have?

Looking for either a remote or Germany-based role. Either SRE or Backend dev.

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