20 years ago, technology wasn’t as pervasive as it is now. Pre-Covid, in most major cities in the US, senior developers who kept their skills current and knew their market would be swept up as soon as they came on the market. My fastest time going from looking for a job to getting an offer with a subsidiary of a F10 company was 4 days in 2012.
I met a local recruiter for lunch on Monday, he sent my resume to the company Tuesday, I had a phone screen Wednesday in person and offer Thursday.
I was no special snowflake. Just a regular 37 year old Enterprise C# developer.
True on paper I had 15 years of experience. But in reality, I had been an “expert beginner” in 2008.
That wasn’t a fluke. Everytime since then the company I usually ended up working for was one that I was introduced to during the first week of looking.
