You are right, sometimes I am disqualified for a number of reasons. I am sure people have thought of me as a jerk, a fake, a lot of other things. And that is ab

You are right, sometimes I am disqualified for a number of reasons. I am sure people have thought of me as a jerk, a fake, a lot of other things. And that is absolutely alright. Why should the company and I both waste a substantial amount of our time on something that doesn't really fit? I certainly don't try to come across as a jerk but time is quite valuable. Use it wisely. Now, one area I am going to respectfully disagree on it competition. I find there is very low competition. Yes, I know, there are thousands of jobs and thousands of applicants. But the trick with competition is use it to your advantage. You mention elsewhere that you DO have a CS degree some a university. Good, you have a differentiator. What other differentiators do you have? Do you visit MeetUps? Do you talk to people at MeetUps? Do you present at MeetUps? Are you on the board of a MeetUp? Do you talk at conferences? Do you blog? Do you submit code to open source projects? Do you have your own open source project? Are you published? The list goes on and on and on. Get yourself some differentiators and suddenly the competition shrinks or disappears. Imagine if you spent all of that prep time for an interview doing these other activities. You'd better yourself AND your ability to be valued in the market. I don't have a trick for getting work without working at it, hard. But I can say that if you hate prepping for interviews like you have been, then stop. Do something else to prep your future employer to know you are the right fit.