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What worked better for me was following founders, recruiters, and other key connections. I’d wait for them to post about roles in their network and apply directly. This strategy landed me a few interviews.
To make this process less manual, I built a tracker that highlights posts from people sharing roles with their private networks. It’s free, so feel free to check it out if you’re in the job market.
I’m also testing video-based applications, which let you track who’s viewing your resume and profile. This feature is paid to help cover server cost. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and hopefully this helps you land a role!
I have also been burnt with employees leaving to start their own thing, but that's more the exception compared to engineers who don't deliver much value because they're not actually interested in building stuff or only interested in the programming part of building stuff.
It's rough out there right now. Also, not even sure what the benefit or angle is for spamming fake job applications. State actors trying to sabotage?
Edit: We can tell that some of the applications are fake because we have people fail background screenings and often the attached LinkedIn profile is using AI generated images and job histories that don't add up.
Ok, tinfoil hat time. Suppose for a moment that the AI hype is true, and that two years from now everyone will have access to god-like coding ability on the cheap. Even if it's untrue, there are plenty who believe this is the case. Seems to me like there are two ways for that to go:
1. Coding jobs get scarcer and scarcer and the only remaining ones are populated people willing to work unreasonably hard to keep them.
2. Coders being the group with the most on-the-job experience re: driving an AI (acquired back in the days when coding was all it was good for) all quit their jobs to start their own companies--because why bother with the bureaucracy of a large company when you can now do the same work with four employees?
I'm not sure who exactly would want to influence the general vibe towards 1 and away from 2, I guess somebody who believed the hype enough to see 2. as a threat, but not enough to see it as an ideal outcome. Or maybe someone whose product is more valuable against a backdrop of an impossible-to-navigate job market. Whoever they are, DDOSing job applications would be a way to achieve that goal.
With full recognition of the challenge you're having, I'll append that the difficulty level ratchets up from there.
The first thing my kids learned after high school is that ~100% of job portals silently discard applications from 1st-time job applicants.
And from that point, the difficultly levels ratchets upward further for the most minor of criminal records.
Past that there are any number of hidden, algorithmic blackmarks against applicants, from wrong zip codes to sub-stellar credit reports.
Finally, there's one nearly unhireable class, people who interview poorly (ex:freeze up).
But then no one would click on it or upvote it. I assume a lot of people vote and comment without clicking the links on HN. Would have been better as a 'show hn' post - Dallas_b below is the op and also made the site but I don't think they make that very clear in their post.
Re the titling/clickbait comment - I was referring to the policy here that posts should follow the page title of the site you are linking to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But as you can see here in other comments, others note this too.
Maybe start a blog for the board, and create that article?
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This was 2006 so the landscape was a little different. I had less direct competition here, but outsourcing was in full swing. I had actually been advised by my high school's consoler not to go into programming because "all the jobs are going to India".
One interview that had gone particularly well was a couple miles from where I now live. Everyone I spoke to seemed very enthusiastic and understood I was right out of college. They never called. Every single time I drive by I tell my wife that I am still waiting for them to call me back. I googled them a few years back and they had gone out of business.
The private college I attended had a department dedicated to job placement, and they would check in with me every couple weeks after I graduated. They were sold as "working directly with employers to place students" but they never had anything like that for me. Honestly, their pushing was a big piece of why I didn't give up. I didn't want to lie to them and I didn't want to let them down.
People and their life histories are incredibly different!
I know this is something that my parents have told me before, but being on the market myself right now. It feels like there is really only so much time I can spend looking for a job. In the first week or 2 I am catching up on all of the jobs already up but after that only so many new jobs are posted.
It feels like I can spend at most an hour or 2 a day actually applying. Sure add in calls/interviews. I say this currently being unemployed. At some point there is nothing else to look at.
I am curious if people are really spending 40+ hours applying to jobs a week? I am finding I am spending most of my time brushing up on tech and working on side projects to keep my skills up.
I suggest setting up the daily alerts on LinkedIn with your role title, doing the same for Indeed as well. I check BuildIn as well every few days just for good measure as they claim to have good hiring rates for tech.
Also see if there is any value in what I've built as well.
For me, an ambiverted software engineer in Europe, it's definitely been a good move.
What helped me getting the job is that I did 2 bachelor programs at uni, one in psychology, the other in computer science with a business minor. I feel that data analysis is a mix of psychology and computer science while the marketing department is the business part. The path to becoming a data analyst wasn't clear, I simply applied to job postings that I vibed with, I didn't really care about the role. If the job vacancy itself seemed fun, I applied.
I didn't do that enough, in retrospect I should've done it a lot more. That'd be the advice I give myself: just read a lot of job vacancies and just trust your intuition about which one you vibe with (aka feel good about).
It is very strange, seems like the market is just suddenly very different. Even senior engineers are not well trusted with adapting new language or tools, while previously I actually onboarded several senior engineers to entirely new stack (e.g. TS -> Go, C++ -> TS, Zig -> Kotlin, frontend engineer with vanilla JS -> Java). The whole market is insane(or entirely irrational).
Reference: Am in one of the EU countries where BMW originates.
Is Django shiny? I have been doing it for so long it feels like old tech to me. YMMV I suppose.
I do think contractors were to blame too. Using ridiculous schemes (like the borrowing from an offshore company one) was only going to lead to a crackdown on both individuals and in general.
Is that because the market rates have changed? I'm in the US and there is definitely a rate-filltime curve. At a certain rate, filltimes become almost immediate, because it makes sense to just hire for option value. However, at 2021 rates, I can see that filltime would be long. (NOT saying that the market clearing rates are actually living wages for on-site positions, but thats the challenge of an inflationary market with employer advantage.)
Or is there some regulatory barrier (e.g. mandatory notice periods?)