Ask HN: How’s the Job Search Going?

3 pointsEddieEngineers3y ago6 comments

I’ve never seen the tech market like this. 9 years experience and getting rejected prior to any initial interviews for dozens of jobs - normally I get around 50% interviews and of those 50% job offers. Anyone else having similar issues?

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PaulHoule3y ago· 2 in thread

Over 21 years I would say it's gone back and forth from "leave a job, take a day off, interview the next day for another job, start at the end of the week" to the occasional job search that takes most of a year.

mech4223y ago

Heh - times have been good for so long, we have a generation of coders that never saw bad times.

Tech has its ups and downs just like any other career...

EddieEngineersOP3y ago

Yeah I've never seen a bad time before so it's sort of freaking me out.

It's gone from 'oh, I want a new job, I'll start next week somewhere I guess' to 'oh, I got a rejection from twenty roles that match me perfectly, huh...'

Way to take my professional ego down a few pegs lol

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