I’ve been looking for a job in tech for a while.
the process feels broken.
- 50 interviews, 1000+ applications → 4 response -> 0 offers (just pure ghosting, even for unpaid work).
- multiple companies asking for “10+ years” in tools that are 5 years old.
- one role asking for frontend, backend, fullstack, and devops basically 4 engineers in a trench coat.
it feels like the system optimizes for keywords, not skills.
sometimes i wonder if job posts exist just to harvest free take-home projects or bug bounties. (yes, that happened.)
curious: how are others navigating this market?
does ghosting ever end, or is this just the new normal?
When HASN'T hiring been broken? I looked back (70's on) and found that networking was my main source of interviews, and jobs, if you exclude a certain fruit company, in my career.
Employers just found a new failure mode, (AI) and I see no improvement in sight, except some ideas regarding proof of work.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 17.8 ms ] thread- 50 interviews, 1000+ applications → 4 response -> 0 offers (just pure ghosting, even for unpaid work).
- multiple companies asking for “10+ years” in tools that are 5 years old.
- one role asking for frontend, backend, fullstack, and devops basically 4 engineers in a trench coat.
it feels like the system optimizes for keywords, not skills. sometimes i wonder if job posts exist just to harvest free take-home projects or bug bounties. (yes, that happened.)
curious: how are others navigating this market? does ghosting ever end, or is this just the new normal?
When HASN'T hiring been broken? I looked back (70's on) and found that networking was my main source of interviews, and jobs, if you exclude a certain fruit company, in my career.
Employers just found a new failure mode, (AI) and I see no improvement in sight, except some ideas regarding proof of work.
Hoping this gets better, but not optimistic.
It has needed complete reinvention forever.