For me it used to be the fact that everyone required at least 1 year's worth of work experience. They would hardly grant you an interview without it with all op

For me it used to be the fact that everyone required at least 1 year's worth of work experience. They would hardly grant you an interview without it with all open source projects in the world. Recruiters don't even know what open source is and employers might have assigned the hiring to a legacy guy who's never done open source either. You can't get work experience without working so it was 6 months of constant searching before I got a job.