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> Have I been incredibly lucky my entire career? I wonder that, too, but the last time I was on the market was 2017. This is the first time in my 30-year prog
by commandlinefan 3y ago
> Have I been incredibly lucky my entire career?
I wonder that, too, but the last time I was on the market was 2017. This is the first time in my 30-year programmer career that I've heard anybody looking for programming jobs complaining about anything _other_ than recruiters bothering them too much. I haven't been in this market personally yet, but the tone is definitely a new one since the dawn of the internet.
- bamfly 3y agoStories of people's hundreds- to thousands-of-applications journeys make it on here what seems like a couple times per year, pretty consistently. All I can figure is I've been in a totally different part of the market from these folks. I've never once had a job search that looked like that. Typically, I do 1-3 interviews after 1-5 applications, and come out with 1-2 acceptable offers. I don't think my total application count in a given search has ever come very close to 10, let alone 100 or 1,000. Or, the last couple times, I've just gone, "yo, I'm looking" and had someone in my network hand me a job (I get that's a later-career thing—but my early-career searches never, ever looked like these application-gauntlets, either). I doubt I've sent 50 total applications in a 20+ year career, which career includes most of the usual job-hopping-for-more-pay, so it's not because I'm doing very-long stints with single employers.
- ryandrake 3y agoI’ve maintained a 100:10:1 application:interview:job ratio for about 20 years now. This is for software engineer roles as well as product management and project management roles. It’s been pretty consistent, although I admit I’m usually looking for work when everyone else is: during tech recessions.