as I got into SWE 4 yrs ago, this was a big part of my job as a SRE/SDET and my next job came b/c of that SRE exp which was never used, so just became an SDET.
Now am laid off, and hard to find a job...
Now am laid off, and hard to find a job...
Unfortunately it's an industry wide problem, and it touches many areas and levels of expertise. Some believed that AI can drop costs and compressed job spaces.
It starts to bounce off but it's not back to - what I could fall - normal baseline.
And it did! For companies, not for you.
True startups need only senior+ and big ones don't wanna interview often.