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Right now, the job market is super over crowded. There are a lot of jobs out there but too many people applying... You get a rejection on a 99/100 score (one ti
by bsvalley 10y ago
Right now, the job market is super over crowded. There are a lot of jobs out there but too many people applying... You get a rejection on a 99/100 score (one tiny mistake and you're out), actually, even a 100/100 score sometimes will lead you to a rejection because other candidates were stronger than you. Too many people are applying from everywhere at the moment.
- icedchai 10y agoThis is the opposite of my experience, both as a candidate and a hiring manager over the past couple of years. There are many openings, not enough competent people to fill them. We are essentially at peak employment for tech.
- greyostrich 10y agoUnfortunately, I've been trying to find my first job of university. I wish I knew how to be competent enough. What do you look for?
- bcbrown 10y agoIf you're looking for a job, where do you live, and why don't you have your email in your profile? If you're in Seattle, send me an email; my email's in my profile.
- smt88 10y agoI'm not looking for a job, but if you're looking for employees, why do you limit your search to a small, expensive city like Seattle? What are the downsides of remote work that are keeping you away from it?
- bcbrown 10y agoI am not my employer, and that policy is not mine to set.
- greyostrich 10y agoI don't like associating the posts I make on this account with my name. I'm in NYC. I sent you an email, in case you're interested in finding out more about me.
- taneem 10y agoSend me a link to your resume/LI profile and I'll be happy to try and give you some pointers (I'm a PM and I work with devs and have hired devs before).
- fenwick67 10y agoIt's funny how companies / hiring managers always say they have trouble finding good candidates, and the people looking for jobs always say they are no jobs. It's probably an axiom of some sort.
- kevin42 10y agoI have talked to hiring managers who complain about the lack of candidates. Then I ask to see their positions and what they are willing to pay and it's way too low. No wonder they can't find an experienced C++ developer for $70k/year. The companies complaining about the lack of qualified people would have no problem if they paid more. On the other hand I've talked to an unemployed Java developer who didn't seem to want to learn anything new beyond what he learned at college 15 years ago complaining about the job market. In my 25+ years of experience, I think that demand for software engineers has always been high. But what's in demand keeps changing. I saw COBOL and RPG IV programmers in 1992 complaining about the lack of software jobs. It'll always be hard to keep up with the jobs that are in demand unless you look at what's in demand and work on the side to stay relevant.
- jfrisby 10y agoIt's a combination of two things: 1. We're bad at hiring, as an industry. We just aren't very good at identifying good candidates. 2. We're an industry where the average skill level is below the minimum threshold of competence for even low-level roles. I.E. there are lots of people looking for jobs, but most of them either couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag -- and identifying the good candidates is time consuming and error prone.