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I know a lot of people who aren't even getting phone screens currently, when in prior years they had their pick of companies to work for.

rqtwteye 3y ago
Feels like 2002-2003 after the .COM bubble. During bubbles a lot of people get hired for good money who aren’t really up to the task.
FrustratedMonky 3y ago
This. I'm reading that there are actually more jobs being created than the layoffs are producing people looking for jobs, or, basically, like op said, layoffs make news, but the dozens of small companies hiring 1-2 people don't make the news. So, it should still be 'ok' to find a job. But, antidotally, all I hear is how hard it is, sending 100's of applications out and getting 1 or 2 calls. So which is it? Is it just big correction in skills? There are jobs, but not for what people know? What is in demand?
- stackskipton 3y ago
  IME, Companies are hiring more senior people because they have their pick and it's more stodgy enterprise stuff. My previous coworkers who know .Net/Java are doing fine but people knowing latest Node/Go are having more problems. Also, salaries have slightly retracted as well. As SRE type, I'm dealing with a ton more legacy conversion and shoring up existing systems. Still high demand for Kubernetes and Containerization but huge drop off in other stuff. WASM has almost entirely disappeared for any conversations I've been in.
  - brailsafe 3y ago
    I'm a frontend dev with a fair bit of legacy experience, but am unfortunately still not seeing many listings or getting calls, and have pretty much stopped considering that it'll happen. Hard to stay motivated, nothing turns out. I'd be more than happy to work on an Angular to React/TypeScript migration or anything not frontend related if I could get in the door.
  - FrustratedMonky 3y ago
    That is too bad. I actually was getting kind of turned on by Rust/WASM and was contemplating switching career in that direction.

rqtwteye 3y ago

Feels like 2002-2003 after the .COM bubble. During bubbles a lot of people get hired for good money who aren’t really up to the task.

FrustratedMonky 3y ago

This. I'm reading that there are actually more jobs being created than the layoffs are producing people looking for jobs, or, basically, like op said, layoffs make news, but the dozens of small companies hiring 1-2 people don't make the news. So, it should still be 'ok' to find a job. But, antidotally, all I hear is how hard it is, sending 100's of applications out and getting 1 or 2 calls. So which is it? Is it just big correction in skills? There are jobs, but not for what people know? What is in demand?

stackskipton 3y ago
IME, Companies are hiring more senior people because they have their pick and it's more stodgy enterprise stuff. My previous coworkers who know .Net/Java are doing fine but people knowing latest Node/Go are having more problems. Also, salaries have slightly retracted as well. As SRE type, I'm dealing with a ton more legacy conversion and shoring up existing systems. Still high demand for Kubernetes and Containerization but huge drop off in other stuff. WASM has almost entirely disappeared for any conversations I've been in.
- brailsafe 3y ago
  I'm a frontend dev with a fair bit of legacy experience, but am unfortunately still not seeing many listings or getting calls, and have pretty much stopped considering that it'll happen. Hard to stay motivated, nothing turns out. I'd be more than happy to work on an Angular to React/TypeScript migration or anything not frontend related if I could get in the door.
- FrustratedMonky 3y ago
  That is too bad. I actually was getting kind of turned on by Rust/WASM and was contemplating switching career in that direction.