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I feel the only blunder the author made is misjudging the tide of the market. I’ve had interview periods where I left my job on a Friday and had accepted an of

I feel the only blunder the author made is misjudging the tide of the market. I’ve had interview periods where I left my job on a Friday and had accepted an offer by the following Wednesday. I’ve also had periods where three months brought 0 offers and I had to borrow money from a friend to pay rent. They don’t correlate with how rusty or ready I felt at the time. I’ve observed the same experience from acquaintances that I consider competent, and some I suspect literally can’t write a loop. Sadly, it seems that, when there’s a strong demand, literally anyone will do; and when there isn’t, perfection is not enough. Don’t take it personally, just weather the storm and keep trying. It’s a numbers game.

noirbot 4y ago
I'd guess that some of that is also that the majority of the "Any developer will do" companies are the ones who just laid off a ton of people because they had too many from strong hiring in the last couple years. We're less in a mode where I'm confident I could just reply to an Amazon recruiter and have a job within a week or two than we used to be. There's also a big difference between trying to get a job when the market is mostly people moving from one job to another for a pay raise, and when the market has a lot of people who were laid off and are now desperate. When you've got bills to pay, you're applying to anything that remotely fits. If there's a lot of people doing that, there's a lot more applications going out to every role than they may have been in a less desperate market.
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  > there's a lot more applications going out For good posts, in a recession, recruiters get many more applications than they can reasonably filter. You just take the top 100 off the pile of 1,000 applications, filter those, and dump the rest in the skip. If you're looking for a unique superstar, you don't solicit applications anyway; you hire a headhunter.

noirbot 4y ago

I'd guess that some of that is also that the majority of the "Any developer will do" companies are the ones who just laid off a ton of people because they had too many from strong hiring in the last couple years. We're less in a mode where I'm confident I could just reply to an Amazon recruiter and have a job within a week or two than we used to be. There's also a big difference between trying to get a job when the market is mostly people moving from one job to another for a pay raise, and when the market has a lot of people who were laid off and are now desperate. When you've got bills to pay, you're applying to anything that remotely fits. If there's a lot of people doing that, there's a lot more applications going out to every role than they may have been in a less desperate market.

denton-scratch 4y ago
> there's a lot more applications going out For good posts, in a recession, recruiters get many more applications than they can reasonably filter. You just take the top 100 off the pile of 1,000 applications, filter those, and dump the rest in the skip. If you're looking for a unique superstar, you don't solicit applications anyway; you hire a headhunter.