I’m a fullstack web dev with 7 years of experience, and been casually searching for the past year or so, but most applications don’t go anywhere, when I’ve had no problems with resumes in the past.
How have your experiences been, anyone having any better luck?
Netherlands. It’s awful. The American “copy your resume in tiny fragments into our web form” has arrived here and I hate it
Better than AI immediately discarding your resume for not hitting keyword density set by uninformed HR drones.
10+ YoE here.
Companies’ hiring processes have become very slow. I applied and got interviews with 4 companies. I only got offers from 2 of them because the others were so slow. Meta was the slowest, 6 months to first interview.
That said, the offers were $800k/yr and $500k/yr total comp so I can’t complain. The catch was mandatory in-office in downtown SF. I’d have to move. It was a hard decision if I’m being honest.
My experience in the past year (I was laid off earlier) is that more jobs come from networking than from submitting applications. My best experiences have come from asking people I worked with, and them referring me directly to a hiring manager.
The best thing you can do for your career is get to know people and give them a good experience working with you. It may not help you today, but it will make a big difference in the future.
Funny, that was true when I graduated in 1985. I saw all my classmates making hundreds of copies of their resume to mail out to every company they could think of and, though my grades were good, I didn’t think mine would look that different from a lot of the others. Instead I spent the time asking everyone I knew if they knew someone who worked at a place that hired software people, getting names and addresses, and sending it to targeted people.
I think I sent my resume to a dozen people, got seven responses, three interviews, and two job offers. That was as many interviews as a lot of my friends who sent out giant numbers of resumes.
@AFKBRBChocolate The way I think about it is the currency of business is trust, not aptitude.
Yeah, that’s part of it. I’ve been a hiring manager for a bunch of years now, and I think we’re mostly looking for a differentiator. If I have a pile of college hire applications that all look roughly the same, but one comes with a recommendation from someone I know, I’m probably going to at least interview that one. Of course, if a different one has a technical differentiator, like relevant work experience, that’s even better.
It was fairly quiet for a long time, one or two years at least, but as of a few weeks ago it seems that hordes of recruiters are at large again. That’s in Western Europe as a senior SRE, so YMMV.
Similar observation here, after 7 months of absolute hell of financial difficulties and humiliation forcing me to move back in with my folks I literally went to having a possibility of overemployment or being picky again literally over a couple of weeks which also gives me hope that compensation will finally start to catch up to the inflation.
Wonder why is that, but I would guess it might be that overzealous layoffs motivated by short-term bump in stock price started backfiring, especially considering the maintainability of so many, many commercial projects where turnover absolutely does not help.
Though I wouldn’t count my chickens before they hatch, the system is abso-fucking-lutely not rational and the global economy is on a path of going from crisis to crisis.
Tech lead with 25+ years experience here. Going on 4 months without work. Last couple of weeks have been better as far as getting callbacks and first interviews. Will see what happens.
