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Extremely hard even for a experienced engineers to find a job? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by 10001110101@lemm.ee to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev
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I'm curious if it's just me or not. I'm an SE with 10+ years of experience, mostly in full-stack with a wide variety of languages and stacks, and my last title was at the "staff" level. I'm almost 40 years old; not sure if age discrimination is much of a thing (my interviewers have been mostly around my age or younger). I've been looking for a job for months. I've been applying to just about every job posting where my skills match on LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter (mostly just the Easy Apply option lately, so I can send more applications out). I've even been applying to positions that just require 2+ years of experience; I'd take any job (except defense or big tech). I've probably sent something like 400 applications out at this point. I've gotten a few interviews, and think I did OK, but I guess not good enough since I was still rejected. Is this normal?

The last time I was looking for a job (2021), I only sent 20 applications out, and landed a job on my first interview. I also tried Upwork for a couple weeks, but wasn't able to land any contracts. I think everyone there is either looking for very cheap devs in the developing world or rockstars with tons of contracting experience and large portfolios.

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Ambition of a few, the sloth of many, the pain of all, the luxury of pity. With their sweet talk, they promise US the world, but leave US crumbs. We ask for a fraction, and they just make more bombs. Those that want to save the children are those that harm the children. Immaculate conception, East and West deception. Putting revolutionaries in a box and destroying their cause, want to kill a truth, wrap it in a lie, then watch it die. The leader is a follower, and the follower is a leader that is dead. If there is a hell, it's inside your head.