JobSearch #Struggling #CareerAdvice
Hey there, I hear you. The job market can be brutal, especially in these uncertain times. It’s frustrating to put in all that effort and still not see results. But don’t give up just yet! Here are a few things to consider:
- Networking: Reach out to your connections, attend industry events, and engage with professionals in your field. You never know where a potential opportunity might come from.
- Skill Development: Take this time to enhance your skills or learn something new. It could make you a more attractive candidate to potential employers.
- Volunteering or Freelancing: Consider taking on volunteer work or freelance projects to keep your skills sharp and expand your experience.
- Seek Feedback: Continue asking for feedback from interviewers and hiring managers. Their insights can help you pinpoint areas for improvement.
Remember, you’re not alone in this. Stay positive, keep pushing forward, and things will eventually fall into place.🌟 #StayStrong #YouGotThis
Just a small tip, don’t use your savings. Instead get a job in your favorite coffee or bar around the coroner. That gives you at least some money and you can use your savings to fill up your salary if it’s not enough. This gives you more time. In your CV just state that your are learning new things and exploring stuff.
Oh no, privileged asshole has to get a real job because he chose to stay unemployed for over a year and burned through his savings. So sad.
Welcome to reality. Last year when layoffs started my project was closed, and I, tech lead, landed without a job. I struggled to find anything for six months, even as a programmer. My health was in bad condition and I got a news that I must have very expensive surgery, so I started to deliver food by Uber and doing side gigs. Later I found senior dev position, but environment in the company is so bad that I started to missing delivering food. Now I’m moving to another company, back to be a tech leader, but tbh I’m feeling exhausted and I have enough of tech companies and this market shit
Just out of curiosity, how much did you save?
So many of my coworkers were laid off a year ago and are still unemployed. One has 20 years experience in QA, others have more years doing dev than me, even my former managers, I know they aren’t retarded. I can assume I am not retarded. You are probably not retarded either. Therefore it is probably the market. Currently I picked up a job at dollar tree, and am switching my career to HVAC because I’ve concluded the same thing as you.
Depends on your experience but the company I work at is hiring cloud architects. If you’re familiar with aws, shoot me a dm
See, when accounting majors say don’t double major in CS, just focus on CS if that’s what you want – I’d point to this thread. When I start college for the first time, I’m considering double majoring in accounting AND CS, so if what happens to OP ends up happening to me due to a shitty job market, I won’t be stuck working at Starbucks and I can still work in an office/computer environment.
How many interviews have you had? If it’s only a few, could we see your resume to see if it could be improved to get you more interviews?
It’s not about your skills. With so many people unemployed companies can be picky and wait for the all star 10/10 dev. If you’re 7/10 or 8/10 (aka above average) it’s harder than before.
Your first major mistake was not getting any old job to tide you over
What’s your YOE?
Do you have a degree?
I mean to be fair, I would say to get a job in this field you need a couple of things to go your way. Wonderful odds, having connections, or having experience. If you don’t have those then there is no chance. Sure you can increase your odds by doing programming projects, learning new things, making connections, etc but tbh it all comes down to just plowing out job applications. I was hopeless for 8 months post graduation but recently landed a job like 5 minutes away from me making good money. Prior to that for 8 months I refined my resume countless of times and sent out a total of somewhere around 450ish applications and had a job at a local Speedway gas station. You gotta have dedication and realize that if you want to give up then you’ll never achieve that goal of landing a software job. It’s either you make the decision now “I’m gonna get this job” or not. Simple
Can the guy who says something along the line of “overblown doomerism” come give OP some comfort please?
Have you applied to other tech roles? If you can’t land a dev job you should shoot for something DevOps, Infra, or IT. Anything is better than nothing imo. You can using your programming knowledge to automate many of your tasks.
Are you applying to JUST developer jobs? If you have a CS Degree you can get a tech related job.
You won’t be a dev most likely but you’ll work in IT or tech support or something. If you limit your horizons to just a dev job then yes it’ll take a long time to find something.
im curious, what is your experience with leetcode? have you been able to leetcode and get jobs before, are they getting more difficult now? I notice the number of rounds for software engineers are increasing (online assessment 2-4 technical questions, 3 loops of leetcode questions, system design, and behavioral) missing any of these means no offer which is very difficult.
Fortunetely I’m on the bubble of those who never got laid off. That being said, I ask: isn’t easier to try to comercialize your own software in this market?
If I got laid off today I’d definitely apply to jobs while trying to make money through software, which is what I know how to do.
I have been there, then I got the best job I’ve ever had. Now things are a bit more dried up (financially).
There is absolutely no shame in a survival job. What’s more you might meet some people, make some friends, and develop yourself in ways you hadn’t anticipated before.
If you miss it, contribute to an open source project! 🙂
I’ve interviewed a few folks and can offer what has made a candidate stand out.
1) know your domain very very well. You don’t have to know about all the things (it’s great if you do) but at least be very good about what you do.
2) have projects in your GitHub (people are going to whine this shouldn’t be necessary, it doesn’t hurt and keeps you sharp)
3) know a cloud and its services AWS, azure, GCP.
4) know the basics well. Dependency injection, classes, or when/why use functional programming.
5) hate to say it but leetcode, it sucks but lots of companies are using these types of puzzles now.
Hope this helps.
Probably should have worked the low paying non tech job first and then we wouldn’t be here. The easy and simple part is your peers outcompeting you in interviews. They were working harder than they were at their jobs from day one of the layoffs.
Cut the cry baby stuff about the market and realize that you joined a cyclical industry that is in a lull and you’re going to have to outcompete your peers. In 2024 not being a horrible developer isn’t enough there are fewer roles and this low effort half ass version of yourself obviously isn’t good enough.
This is what the current is majors and new grads don’t want to hear: the reality that CS is no longer an easy option to good pay. Basically, tech layoffs and ripples from chatgpt have made competition unpredictably challenging. Some have just went back for a masters in an adjacent field so that they can at least have access to student loans and an excuse as to why they’re not working.
It’s just bad timing. Unfortunately, it may not be resolved for years and could remain this way for a long time. My advice is to get any job you can in the meantime. It may not be what you want to hear, but that’s the reality of CS right now for all those without years and years of experience.