How is anyone supposed to compete with those kinds of numbers?

I thought the industry was struggling to find people?

Looked at a dozen other jobs just like it.

How are you supposed to stand out at all, if you're just getting started?

By guessing which search terms they use to go through candidates. They won't be reading every application, that's for sure.

It's the devpocolypse I've been fearing.

Welcome to $60k sr salaries and $15k entry level positions.

Why? Supply and demand. Who cares if 600 of those applicants couldn't develop a hole in a wet bag.

Warm bodies and eyes on glass. We need to suffer so those at the top can keep paying for their yachts, their fancy cars, and their mistresses abortions.

So I say this with as much gusto as I can

typically a lot of unqualified people apply so most applications go into the trashbin

Industry is struggling to find _good_ people. If you are good, you stand a chance! No matter the number of applications!

Use LinkedIn or Dice. Indeed sucks.

I think that must be a household name company that has no problems attracting applications.

I've recruited junior-senior .net and or angular devs for small and medium companies. On average I interviewed 1 person per 2 weeks. Half of them had no clue.

@wackOverflow thanks for the advice Wack. Didnt even consider Dice.

@Crost that's insane that half of them apply and cant even program at all.

@Wisecrack I've interviewed people that didn't know pass by reference Vs value, OOP or functional programming, nothing about design, asking for £80,000.

Functionals about recursion and not mutating your inputs yeah?

I'm familiar with the very basics of it, lambdas, map reduce, and filter.

OOP, SOLID, and the relevant patterns not so much. Like I can look in a book and implement from the description, but I dont know any of it by heart. I'm still firmly in the RTFM stage.

Design is a broader topic.

@Wisecrack everyone is somewhere. Seems fine.

@Wisecrack FWIW, in my experience it’s been LinkedIn that sucks and Indeed that has real jobs.

I'm pretty sure a lot of those are automated entries. even so, you should have faith in yourself. surprising as it may be, good quality is scarce, and what we often take for granted could be what sets us apart

@darksideofyay thanks for making things seem like they'll turn out fine.

@matt-jd literally like 90% are nonsense. I've been involved in hiring before and most of the applicants have literally no idea what the job even is. Like, you'll have some random 15 year old that heard programming pays well or some 30 year old server who thinks they can just learn on the fly.

To be clear, I'm not insulting these people. Like, I hope all of them learn skills and end up with great jobs. BUT especially with entry level jobs people just apply to anything

By contributing to open source project ?

Also, to answer your original question, apply early and often, and try to find a recruiter who isn’t brain dead.