Also worth discussing: once you start interviewing, what can you do to get an offer? Personal anecdote: I was laid off ~4 months ago. It wasn't that hard to g

Also worth discussing: once you start interviewing, what can you do to get an offer? Personal anecdote: I was laid off ~4 months ago. It wasn't that hard to get interviews. But then I bombed the coding interviews for several appealing positions. I'm a very experienced developer, but I didn't realize just how much my programming-during-an-interview skills had atrophied. IMHO those coding tests were properly weeding me out, because it really looked like I couldn't program. I'm now making time to work on practice problems, and I think they're really helping. I expect future coding interviews to go much better.