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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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[–] ECB@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I wasn't fully aware of it at the time and had been targeting a different country-specific program. For this other program I had checked that I fulfilled the requirements and put something like "eligible for " on my CV. This seemed to help, since I got a lot of responses and we generally discussed this aspect in interviews.

Ultimately though, after getting a job offer, my current company found out about the Blue Card program and we decided together that it was the easiest path.

I think a lot of companies aren't aware of all of the different options, so making them aware of these can't hurt!