seen on hacker news:

"I have applied to 600 software dev jobs in 2/3 months and have had around 8 interviews but still no dice.
reply"

jesus i'm going to give up now. i'd rather be homeless than mindlessly wasting my time

I’m starting interviews here as well, just as a plan B. I’m dreading it already, they are so shitty. Will have to spend time studying for the damn interview instead of the job.

I believe in you

@b2plane is this about you?

I know that's not you, but if someone has applied to hundreds of jobs a month - that's likely exactly why they're not getting a role. Companies can smell random CVs with no tailored covering letter a mile off, and they just go straight in the bin. It's about working harder on tailoring individual applications, not mass mailing hundreds in the hope you happen to get a reply.

...that is so fucking annoying and immoral bro. No one can tell me it is moral for a person with a college degree of this calibre in this industry to struggle finding a job. Ffuck out of here with this bullshit

@netikras no

Most companies want seniors and leads. They are scared of juniors and mids.

8/600 is extremely low even with the job market being as it is right now. There’s probably something seriously wrong with the resume or maybe he’s applying for jobs that aren’t good fits

@TeachMeCode theres also possibility like me, he got accepted but lowballed hard to work for $500 a month, while i asked for $1500 a month, and of course because i refuse to work a software engineering job for below minimum wage, i cant accept to work at all

@Nanos Sure, but clearly the market isn't as kind where he's working at the mo. I didn't include a cover letter to my last job either, and got pretty much snapped up - but I'm in a hot market in a relative niche.

Others in other locations, or with a different skillset need to stand out - and tailoring a CV and covering letter is going to fare much better in that environment than applying to hundreds of openings without thought.

I don’t understand it. Business people are whining that they can’t find qualified people yet they install filtering software on resumes that throw out 95 % of the candidates. Can someone explain this to me?

Market saturation, shitty HR processes, and not standing out. But nobody can truly nail down what “standing out” means in such a saturated market. Usually it means you have to have memorized 40 different languages and frameworks and can write code like Hollywood actors pretend to on TV shows and in movies. Most hiring managers have no clue that such people simply don’t exist.