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Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own Sa

by geuis 3y ago

Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt. I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but that only lasted about a month. I mostly get just rejections. I have over 15 years of experience. I literally know how to build out every part of a normal web/api stack. I even have an active ongoing project I've run for 13 years and have scaled to support a couple million requests a day. Nothing seems to matter. I have maybe managed to get one actual call a week for the last year where I actually speak to someone from the company. And even then, it's been one "thanks for playing" response email after another. I honestly don't know what to do. I've never had a problem at least getting interviews to the point where I'm at least in the consideration process. I need help. I revised my resume a few times and that hasn't helped. I've gotten more involved with LinkedIn and I get more noise but still low results. I'm basically getting very desperate.

mortallywounded 3y ago
Looks like you expose your git repo in your web root, rookie :) geuis.com/.git/config
- geuis 3y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out. That freaked me out for a minute.
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pault 3y ago
Have you tried working with recruiters? In my experience applying directly might as well be sending your resume directly into a black hole. If you turn on the “looking for work” setting on linked in you’ll probably get plenty of opportunities to interview. I was interviewing in the spring and I had a few interviews lined up within a week this way.
zyang 3y ago
Is location a factor in your search. I'm seeing some openings around bay area but all remote opportunities have dried up.
- geuis 3y ago
  Nah. I live in SF. I'm fine with going to an office. I'm fine with anything at this point.
  - sakopov 3y ago
    Take this for what it's worth, but a recruiter that I know has told me that a lot of companies in California are now reaching out to recruiters to hire out of state for the obvious reason - lesser pay. Something to ponder. If you're really desperate maybe look into other regions.
    - altdataseller 3y ago
      Yes, I am seeing this as well. A lot of tech job openings are even explicitly excluding people from SF (but not less expensive parts of California)
  - silent_cal 3y ago
    Would you take an in-person job that's not in a big city?
shalmanese 3y ago
I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty trivial on the surface but I'm willing to be convinced is more substantial but with a plus feature "coming soon" for I don't know how long and a twitter account with 12 followers * One to a github project that you haven't touched in 9 years, also with a bunch of things you've been meaning to work on for a while but clearly haven't. I'm willing to be disabused of this notion but my instinct via this gestalt is that you're someone who likes to overpromise and underdeliver. My question would be, what have you been doing in the last 9 months if you haven't had time to polish these bits of your public surface area? That's probably an unfair judgement from me and in a hotter hiring environment, I'd be willing to bring you in so you could disabuse me of my prejudice and I could be pleasantly surprised but it's much easier now to filter based on trivial gut feel like this and you should be more conscious of the digital image you're putting out into the world because HMs won't bother telling you this stuff because it's an awkward conversation with no gain on their end.
- sixtram 3y ago
  true, at the same time your bumblebeelabs site is down ...
  - leandot 3y ago
    He is also not urgently looking for a job I guess, it's all about context.
  - vinberdon 3y ago
    And why does everyone have http:// http:// and not https:// https:// in their bio links?
- upon_drumhead 3y ago
  I hear this a ton, yet in the past decade, I’ve never looked at more than a resume before filtering into the yay/nay buckets for tech phone screens. Do you all actually dive deep on every resume?
mortallywounded 3y ago
My two cents, your LinkedIn is pretty bare (~130 connections, few skills/words/fluff). If you want to play the LinkedIn game you need to get 500+ connections (connect with a bunch of recruiters to game the numbers). Don't advertise you are looking for a job (recruiters don't like to hire people looking for a job, that means they can't find a job and are inferior to people already employed). Instead, frame yourself as employed and happy. Message recruiters and let them know you're passively looking at opportunities in the market and wonder what they are looking for. Beef up the LinkedIn with some recommendations, skills, etc. Your personal site can use some updates.. get a headshot/basic whois/bio on it pointing to your LinkedIn/Github/Email and a rundown of some of your projects. Ageism could be part of the problem as well. A clean shave/haircut/dye wouldn't hurt.
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by geuis 3y ago

mortallywounded 3y ago

Looks like you expose your git repo in your web root, rookie :) geuis.com/.git/config

geuis 3y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. That freaked me out for a minute.

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pault 3y ago

Have you tried working with recruiters? In my experience applying directly might as well be sending your resume directly into a black hole. If you turn on the “looking for work” setting on linked in you’ll probably get plenty of opportunities to interview. I was interviewing in the spring and I had a few interviews lined up within a week this way.

zyang 3y ago

Is location a factor in your search. I'm seeing some openings around bay area but all remote opportunities have dried up.

geuis 3y ago
Nah. I live in SF. I'm fine with going to an office. I'm fine with anything at this point.
- sakopov 3y ago
  Take this for what it's worth, but a recruiter that I know has told me that a lot of companies in California are now reaching out to recruiters to hire out of state for the obvious reason - lesser pay. Something to ponder. If you're really desperate maybe look into other regions.
  - altdataseller 3y ago
    Yes, I am seeing this as well. A lot of tech job openings are even explicitly excluding people from SF (but not less expensive parts of California)
- silent_cal 3y ago
  Would you take an in-person job that's not in a big city?

shalmanese 3y ago

I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended. There's 5 links on your HN profile: * One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more * One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note * One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret * One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty trivial on the surface but I'm willing to be convinced is more substantial but with a plus feature "coming soon" for I don't know how long and a twitter account with 12 followers * One to a github project that you haven't touched in 9 years, also with a bunch of things you've been meaning to work on for a while but clearly haven't. I'm willing to be disabused of this notion but my instinct via this gestalt is that you're someone who likes to overpromise and underdeliver. My question would be, what have you been doing in the last 9 months if you haven't had time to polish these bits of your public surface area? That's probably an unfair judgement from me and in a hotter hiring environment, I'd be willing to bring you in so you could disabuse me of my prejudice and I could be pleasantly surprised but it's much easier now to filter based on trivial gut feel like this and you should be more conscious of the digital image you're putting out into the world because HMs won't bother telling you this stuff because it's an awkward conversation with no gain on their end.

sixtram 3y ago
true, at the same time your bumblebeelabs site is down ...
- leandot 3y ago
  He is also not urgently looking for a job I guess, it's all about context.
- vinberdon 3y ago
  And why does everyone have http:// http:// and not https:// https:// in their bio links?
upon_drumhead 3y ago
I hear this a ton, yet in the past decade, I’ve never looked at more than a resume before filtering into the yay/nay buckets for tech phone screens. Do you all actually dive deep on every resume?

mortallywounded 3y ago

My two cents, your LinkedIn is pretty bare (~130 connections, few skills/words/fluff). If you want to play the LinkedIn game you need to get 500+ connections (connect with a bunch of recruiters to game the numbers). Don't advertise you are looking for a job (recruiters don't like to hire people looking for a job, that means they can't find a job and are inferior to people already employed). Instead, frame yourself as employed and happy. Message recruiters and let them know you're passively looking at opportunities in the market and wonder what they are looking for. Beef up the LinkedIn with some recommendations, skills, etc. Your personal site can use some updates.. get a headshot/basic whois/bio on it pointing to your LinkedIn/Github/Email and a rundown of some of your projects. Ageism could be part of the problem as well. A clean shave/haircut/dye wouldn't hurt.

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