Greetings fellow engineers.<p>I wanted to share my experience as a software engineer, which is that USA based job seekers are currently having a difficult time. I would't call the global market overall bad though.<p>What is your experience?
I find myself wondering if my email is broken. Which is to say I get very little reply.<p>Compare this to a year ago when I got a reply to almost every application I sent out.<p>I'm kind of kicking myself for being so picky; I haven't had a job in a few years and running out of money (I was never that well-off, but coming from a working-class background I don't live an expensive life). I've had a few bad experiences and I wanted to find something I really liked (I actually had a very well paid "Silicon Valley type" job for a company most here will know last year which I quit after 3 months because they gave me fuck all to do and I felt their engineering ethos was horrible – it just didn't feel right accepting a huge salary and not working for it).
Pretty dismal.<p>Fortunately, a friend of mine needed dev help with his growth stage company so I've been keeping the lights on contracting and sort of price gouging my hourly rate.<p>That said, I've really been hoping to land another proper full-time gig. On that front, things are not looking good. I had about a year under my belt as a newly transitioned (4YOE SWE 1YOE TPM) TPM so I'm sort of double fucked. Tech companies don't want to hire flip flopping devs and product people with less than a year of experience are basically un hire-able.<p>It's been four months, but at least I have some income to show for it. Had maybe three interviews, two recruiters reach out in this entire time. Probably around 100 applications.
I think I’m screwed.<p>I can’t get interviews anymore. Every now and then I get one and it goes nowhere, and I almost never make it past the first round. My LinkedIn profile views now show mostly as “salespeople” instead of recruiters.<p>I’ve lost a lot of money thanks to emergency expenses that happened towards the beginning and have been steadily bleeding my savings through general cost of living. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to keep it up, but at this point I’m pretty much convinced I’ll run out of money before I can get a new job.
Almost 10 YOE on top of a MSc, looking for remote roles mainly in Europe. Looking for work for the past few weeks, sent out close to 500 applications. I heard back from maybe 20 companies, 10 won't hire remotely (anymore?) and asked if I'd relocate, 2 progressed to multiple interview before rejecting me without any reasons stated, and have an ongoing process with another 4-5.
All salaries I'm looking at are way lower than what I was making (down to even half).<p>Bleak.
Very very hard going for me. I have nearly 10 years of experience but only got one interview, and when the topic of money came up 70k was deemed much too high. I got no further contact from that company.
Not good at all... I have about 20 years in the industry, I've submitted ~60 online applications over the last 16 days and have received ~15 rejections (with one arriving nearly instantaneously)!
By far the worst job hunt in my entire career. I have nearly 10 years of experience and the only things I get recruited for are short term contracts which require me to move.<p>Luckily my personal expenses are very low so I don't NEED to work, but I'm definitely discouraged right now.
A friend of mine was a PM at amazon and was part of the layoffs earlier in the year. Hasn't had any response to their applications, only 1 interview from a referral but it wasn't a good fit.
The bar has been raised. Not like a few years ago when they were hiring zero experience bootcamp devs (much to respect to these folks who are hard workers from non-traditional backgrounds). Questions are not easy, you can be tossed out for any perceived slight or giving a non-optimal solution. Experience is disregarded unless web scale. At least IME, but maybe it was always that way. You'll have to rely hard on your personal network to get your foot in the door somewhere.
Seems pretty bad right now. A lot of companies, mine included, are in a hiring freeze. Some companies outside of big tech are hiring(I noticed quite a few jobs from banks), but a lot are expecting relocation or hybrid in addition to substantial pay cuts compared to tech salaries. I've had most of my recent applications rejected without even a recruiter call when in the past I had felt my resume was very strong.
Not personal experience, but most people I know who were laid off are taking it easy and enjoying their severance period. My own company just announced that we are massively ramping up hiring in the second half of the year, so the jobs will come back soon enough.
Fucked. Trying to break into the industry, hundreds of applications over the past year, few interviews. I'm 30, and apparently that's already really old for software, so I'm not sure I'll ever be getting in.
I am from Bangalore India. I was just window shopping and came across some insane salaries for Amazon SDE and am currently feeling somewhat down. I posted a question about it here, please someone reply.
I got laid off 4 ish months ago and was hired 2 months ago. I only looked for about one month and I had two pretty good offers out of it. 6 years of experience in industry.
It's fine. I have been getting a lot of inbound and am in the loop for most applications I've sent out.<p>The doomspelling of the tech job market is both overly exaggerated and heavily biased toward experiences of junior and intermediate developers. If you have a decade or more of experience, it's business as usual.