The Reality Of Tech Jobs in 2024

The chaos around the tech industry and job hunting right now is crazier than ever. If you're looking for a new role, or even a first one, you better be ready to build some trust

THANK YOU PHASE FOR THE EDIT 🙏

[randomvideo]

The fact that so many devs are now making videos is an indicator 😂

[ahevjadon]

Honestly, this getting a job thing doesn't work that easily without connections 😢

[lonewolfzor]

"You are going to fail interviews"

me: "You guys are getting interviews???"

[zey-]

I was sending at least 3 applications a day to different companies and was working on my portfolio website and side projects everyday for 3 months, at the end it paid off when a start up company that i applied to reached out to me and asked if i wanted to do an interview. They were looking for a senior developer but i applied anyways cause the job sounded extremely cool, almost a dream job for me (im a newly graduated web developer with very little experience). the interviews went well and they said the reason they picked me was because of my portfolio and side projects, as well as my description on my cv where i listed my hobbies and personality sounded like someone that would perfectly fit on their team. So guys taking risks and applying for a position not even meant for you can pay off really big. I have now worked her for 4 months and i really love it, they will re-evaluate my salary at the beginning of next year since they say that i'm one of their best employments and risks they've taken and they see a lot of potential in me.

Just wanted to add some hope and positivity to this comment section as 90% of comments are about how depressing and hopeless it feels, keep grinding people <3

[flexdash]

Senior engineer here, 6+ years of experience in embedded development, Rust, golang, c++, you name it, I've done it.
Got laid off 8 months ago. 20 interviews, most of them got to last stage and got rejected with the reason "we hired someone else". About *half* of these interviews were through REFERRALS. If you're going through something similar, you're not alone, in fact, there's millions of us with you, which is why you and I can't get a job lol

[DSynua]

Being a junior developer actively looking for work has got to be the most insufferable thing I've ever experienced, good luck to everyone out there.

[paulsisson]

Just got a second interview for my first job after applying for over 1000 positions. 🤞🏼

[MightBeRasor]

2 years of experience here, honest to god it feels like it doesn't matter

[meltygear]

As a 40+ junior engineer the fact that everyone casually expects juniors to be under 25 means that it doesn't matter how much I network, there's inherent bias that "is what it is" and that's that. I feel bad for all the people who get into debt to get a degree around my age.

[FreestyleTraceur]

I have 8+ years of experience and it took me about 9 months to land a really good full-time job. Got part-time gigs in between to help keep the resume fresh. Worked on a side project and kept learning about the field I wanted to break into. All paid off too. Got a job at exactly the type of company I wanted making more than my previous full-time role. I think a lot of this still all comes down to luck, which is why continuing to send out those applications and making yourself more marketable is worth it. It's a numbers game at the end of the day.

[MoshJunkie]

I know we're in a weird spot with the economy and job market right now, and granted I don't even work in tech but weather the storm and the market will get better. The economy will recover and we'll all have stability, my parents have been alive 70 plus years and they've seen phases like this all the time. My dad survived the Vietnam War social crisis, jim crow era, civil rights era, the oil crisis in the 70s, union busting as a railroader in the 80s, economic crisis in the 90s, war in the middle east in the early 2000s, and the housing crisis in 2008. We'll make it through this crap

[idealbeing]

The market is in a weird place because employers want senior engineers with junior pay, which is a unicorn dev.

[awesomedavid]

These companies will have a great awakening when there are no more senior devs to hire. And because they weren't developing junior devs to be loyal to their company, they'll now have a team of far more junior devs and be far less productive than they ever would've been hiring one or two at a time. And these devs will be so jaded that they won't hold any loyalty to this company and often dip right after being trained.

[whocares]

I hate to say it but everyone became a computer science major and get into software engineering because they thought it would be lucrative. Now the market is beyond over saturated. It’s sad. I’m in career that’s desperate to hire but is underpaid. Why does everything have to be in such extremes?

[SmoothCode]

I have an internship lined up. It was ridiculously hard to get a SWE internship so the fact that I have one is a miracle.

[matthewbutner]

I teach CS at the college level and as part of my class I put students in groups and just require them to interact with each other. Play games, watch a movie, get lunch together. I don’t care. Just try and make some friends. I get quite a bit of pushback on it from students but your video encourages me to keep doing it.

[ReddSpark]

I spent 6 months playing around with Open AI and trying to build my own GenAI startup. Didn’t go well ….BUT the skills I learnt allowed me to get a Gen AI role at a mid sized company doing some pretty innovative stuff.

So make the most of your free time in addition to job hunting.

[scoseeu]

In the old days, internships were the best way to break in when times were tough. Low/no cost, opportunity to network, access to a massive code base, unique data, learning a business domain, etc…

[GiantRogueWave]

15 years of experience here in software engineering and developing web applications and I’ve been job hunting like crazy for 2 months now with no end in sight. I’ve never seen the tech industry this depressed before and I’m starting to question whether I should try a career change. I can’t even imagine how it must be for juniors right now. I’m senior level and I still can’t find work.

[Baba_pro_zenci]

Nice work. I’ve been on the JOBFLIPUSA train for a while, never sold as they are always building.