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I hope you've been applying through referrals, given your stage of career.

Online apps are for suckers.

Referrals are also not a golden ticket right now. Got a few tossed in the bin, we've got a lot of FAANG engineers on the market right now, companies are scooping them up at bargain rates.

I hope things work out for you.

> Referrals are also not a golden ticket right now.

They were never a "golden ticket." Results are never guaranteed, but some approaches (blindly applying online to job ads) are inferior.

My point stands that the parent's approach is flawed. Current supply-demand doesn't explain why parent has only gotten 1-2% responses (not even interviews?) in the course of 5+ months (since March 2023).

The parent's comment implies they applied to at least 50 jobs (maybe 100+?). My assumption is that the bulk (all?) of these were non-referred applications, yet, parent has 10+ years of experience and should be exhausting their network for referrals.

Yes, things are worked out pretty well, in the end it didn't take long to find _something_ as a dev, but I think early next year should be a good time to apply to "good" companies. In-network people are telling me things are frozen where they're at, and to wait for Q1 next year.

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