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You can get a highly paid developer job without tons of experience in 2023.
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It took me a long time to learn that life is not fair, and the current debacle in finding a programming job is a big reminder of this concept. The "Current Situation..." one key to the problem goes down to greed imo, e.g. LinkedIn just scored record profits, and growth and what did they do, lay off hundreds of employees. I am not certain how we combat greed.
I truly appreciated your screen captures from Reddit. To say looking for a programming job right now would be 'soul crushing' would be an understatement.
I had three of the best programmers I know critique my CV, and I did a complete rewrite. I like that you are trying to help but saying "If you are not getting interviews there is something wrong with your CV." is not helpful. When I read the job needs Java, Python, and 3 others it tells me no one on the programming side of the house vetted the job post. I relate to that reddit post in the screen capture, that he or she has no idea wtf they want, even though they actually have a job posting. Even before this chaos the programming world was littered with stories of moronic job postings with HR people asking for X years of experience in program Y, when program Y is not even X years old. Should it really be this complex to find a job, of course not, order is needed...
Hey @diek007! I think this video will summarize the current situation. It's not greed, it's capitalism. We are just a bunch of numbers.
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."
Btw, the company I was working in Barcelona received last year a round of investments of 130 millions. What did they do? Lay off.
Hope it gets better for you!
Interesting @italoborges, I will take a look
Hey @diek007 thanks for sharing. I will make a separate post on how exactly to write the CV and provide some proven templates we used that get you to to the next stage
"Get Good At Live Coding Interviews"
This is like the ultimate condition, so everyone has to be prepared with it.
I have gone through it once, with unsatisfying result, i.e "unsatisfying" was the word the recruiter said to me as the response. The test was initially supposed to complete within 30 minutes; but for some reasons, they allowed me to finish it and send the code the next day. I thought I did quite well, the app ran as I expected, although I admitted I could have improved it. But, according to the recruiter, it was still unsatisfying, yet.
Well, probably, other applicants did better than me.
Alright, that was an experience of live coding interview, a kind of interview which we cannot avoid let alone hate.
Feeback from interviews(if any) is quite useless, unfortunately. The thing with coding interviews is that 1 in 3 you will get the bad luck with interviews with ppl who have no social skills. They can be very patronizing, not collaborative, and basically set you up for failure. It happens at any level, junior, senior, and beyond. No matter how good you are, you will always "fail" some interviews because the people interviewing you don't want you to succeed. This is a dynamic no one talks about, but sometimes they might perceive you as a future competitor for a promotion and try to prevent that or just want to show they can do more. And rejection always stings. Trust me, I have done dozens of coding interviews(just for sport nowadays) and it still stings when I get a no. This is why you always need to focus on the next thing, we call it "interview and forget" at theSeniorDev. Spend no time dwelling on it, just move on to the next thing.
I want to ask about skills mentioned on our LinkedIn profile. We know that LinkedIn provides assessment for each skills we list on our profile. If we pass the assessment, then we have a badge for corresponding skill.
I myself have several badges for certain skills after taking and passing the assessments on my profile. If you have gone through the assessment, I think you know and can give the opinion about the assessment : easy, difficult, etc, for certain skills.
I myself, think, the assessment is like a theoretical test that is part of the hiring process in certain companies.
So, based on the the assessment, do you think it gives us some benefit when we have badges on certain skills, esp ones that are relevant to the job requirements ?
Hey @lexiebkm from my experience there is some margin benefit of having the "Verified" badge next to the skill but very little. The questions in the assessment are quite off - far away from what you get in interviews and recruiters see it only if they dig in your profile. Is one of those things that does help, but not a game changer on the responses you get or the invites to interviews.
If you are just starting out, and have the time, I would do the main ones for your skill set like JavaScript and so on but don't sweat on it too much. It has what they call "diminishing returns" on the investment of your time.
Thanks for taking the time on writing all your advices. It's been a very useful read! And it would really be cool if you could write about how to complete take homes fast because my time is precious and I'm not taking 30 hours to do each of them... How can I do them fast?
@snorchy will do. There are ways you can bring that down to 5 to 6 hours and still get passed to the next stage
Unfortunately this sort of work is hard to get into that’s my opinion anyway I’ve had 3 interviews in a month 3 interviews but 2 rejections and 1 I’m currently waiting for a reject or accept 😂 I’m trying to get into a state of mind not to take it personally and think but if u owned a business would you hire someone like me (only 7 months of experience and a portfolio that’s okay but could be better) and I always think no cause there is better out there! But on the other hand I have this project at the moment if it succeeds it will poo all over Wordpress and wix and that’s my goal so I don’t particularly care if I get the job or not. It’s hard don’t get me wrong but just don’t take it personal and master something you know your skill is and apply for jobs that are bottom of food chain at first and then work your way in a foot in the door as they say!
Best of success there @shawn2208
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Focuscatches my attention a lot. I remember having a hard time throughout the past ~6-month period seeking a job, telling myself to focus only on coding and technical interviews instead of distributing my time to temporary redundant frameworks or languages. Somehow, interesting new things could attract me to be out of the wheel that much.I'm glad I have gotten through that period. Thanks for the detailed article.
@khoaxuantu thank you for the feedback. Glad you made it, and thx for sharing your experience
This was a good read. I especially agree with the part about mindset. I think knowing who you are and embracing your tech identity is crucial. Getting and doing well on interviews is also critical. In my personal experience I found that networking enhanced my chances as well.
Thanks @chukwuma1976
Really great inside with pragmatic approach. Finally some valuable article that does not feel like another one AI generated or mass produced. 👍🔥
Thank you so much, gald it helped :)
Great post, it feels like a complete book about job searching.
Thank you @westernal! Glad it help, best of success there
This article was really insightful! It really changed my whole perspective on how to land a job in tech.
I think side projects/open source projects are still useful for getting experience if your an absolute beginner. It's one thing to know how to code but I feel like you still have to know how to write code in the context of building an application(knowing design patterns, scalability, optimization, etc) and collaborating with other developers.
Again, fantastic article.
Thanks for the feedback @shavjw
Great read.
Glad you enjoyed it @matkwa
Very insightful, helped me to realize my mistakes and now I will surely work on them.
Happy to hear that @_b1ngus! Wish you all the best there
A great piece of advice for job hunters. 👌
Thanks @codeguage
Wow. One of great article I've ever seen over the course of career.
I do have 10+ years of experience in software engineering, did various work mostly focused on the front end and experienced in all parts of SDLC.
Recently, I finished my last company and start to looking for a new job.
And this article is really great help for me to hunt my next awesome job.
But I am not sure if my current CV is good or bad.
So it would be great for me if you have a chance to review my CV and give me some feedback.
@kevindev0110 Make sure you join us in the free dev community I linked in the article, and we take it from there :)
I recently completed my frontend development course, and struggling to get a fresher job, now I will follow this artist.
Thank you so much,❤ it is very helpful for me.
Best of success @prvn1998
I must say huge thanks to you. Thank you for every single post you write. I see you put effort. I can see you like what you do. Keep doing it because someone cares.
Whatever it takes
+1
Thanks for this...
You are welcome!
Awesome
Thanks @shubhadip_bhowmik
Just awesome. Loved the blog. Everything was so on to the point.
Thank you @Siyam Afroz
Pure guideline, great post
Thank you @flowzai
Please, write a full article about how to solve a take-home challenge. Thanks
Will do @letyjaime
awesome article, love it, thank you for sharing!
You are welcome @matinmollapur01
Thank you for sharing 🚀, you've provided very insightful information.
You are welcome @S K Reddy
Not a coder, but I'll take this and use it as my roadmap for applying to jobs in the cloud.
Great to hear @stefanmoore . Best of success!
I am one of the oltimers: GET INTO BLOCKCHAIN. CDBC are being developed and its not that hard and extremely exciting!
This is helpful, thank you.
Glad to hear that @karim_balla!
thank you
Thank you for the power energy.