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What's the struggle finding a good job?
I just got rejected after 8 rounds of interviews with 5 years and management experience in my field. It is not a good time to be job searching in tech.
8 rounds????? In a row??
Welcome to tech. It's pretty fucking ridiculous.
(For example, I just got a position where the primary duty is to support an information system I designed and built for them and I still had to do 3 rounds of interview)
We've only done multiple rounds of interviews for very impressive candidates that are already a big yes, where they're being shown to progressively higher ranking staff as a "wow you gotta meet this person"
This is a big tech company
What were the three rounds for? Did the interviewers see it as a farce?
They were a technical, team interview and management interview, with another team scheduled after that. Only person who was open about feeling it was a waste of time was the director in the third interview, who stopped it in the middle of an intermitable HR ramble and offered me the job (presumably so she wouldn't have to keep wasting her time sitting thru them).
It was extra ridiculous since the position was explicitly written for me and I am the only person alive who is qualified (given I built the system...), and they still put everyone through all that bullshit process-wank for what was an inevitable outcome. Ugh.
What a shit show, hope you get well compensated for being the only qualified person alive
Oh yeah, the last person in the position karked it (lead dev on their side) and only then did they notice they hadn't bus-proofed any of their data intake/processing/warehousing. But credit where it's due, they aren't an AI-heavy shop and they're being pretty attentive about fixing it after that wakeup call. Upside contractor wages, downside ugh it's so fucking corporate
A lot of people not being well compensated for corporate, I'd take that as a win haha
Trust me, I've tried since graduating in 2024 to get a job within the field I studied. There's a lot of CS jobs, but absolutely none for a entry level position. I've long given up for now, especially since a recession might finally hit the second I actually get a good job and then I'd be completely unemployed. Maybe I'll use what I studied in the future but it doesn't look like it for now.
Before your objection that I should've gotten an internship during college as well to get actual work experience rather than just doing really well in my classes, I tried. I used to spend just as much time trying to get an internship than actually studying only for me to never get any kind of response let alone a fucking interview. That's the depressing part, I saw this coming, tried my best to avoid it, only for my work learning additional skills outside of class to make me more appealing and constantly applying for jobs to have all been for nothing. I spent so much time I could have been doing to build an actual social life only to get smacked with reality
I don't know much about your situation and your specific skills, but one way to get experience in many CS jobs is doing work on a FOSS project or starting your own. At least it would help keeping your skills sharp and updated. But i know that this takes a lot of effort and it's unpaid work, which might not be possible if you actually have to do something to pay the rent.
I've considered developing my own FOSS application. If I were to ever do one, it would be focused on being something that Linux Mobile or Ubuntu Touch doesn't already have since they don't have much support yet. Thought about making some kind of Linux application in general, but any idea I came up with either has already been or definitely couldn't be maintained long term by just one person.
I do work full time already, but switching from Android to either Droidian or Ubuntu Touch after the great lockdown will probably make me want to make the experience on them better anyway. So yeah, definitely been throwing around the idea of getting involved in the FOSS community, but don't want to contribute to an already existing project since I'm not THAT confident in my programming skills just yet.
Like the other commenter said, do you have any projects you've been working on that could showcase your skills or add some weight to your resume? Are you applying for software engineering roles? Is the city you're applying in unfit for tech?
I haven't been actively applying as of recently, but I have done plenty in the past 2 years. The state I currently live in perhaps might no longer be fit for tech, not entirely sure anymore, but I was applying for jobs way outside of my home state as well since I'd be willing to move pretty far for an opportunity. I am considering working on a project in the future within the FOSS community