[OC] My job search over a 6 month period, as a 30 year old staff software engineer (US)

Posted by Elec0

22 comments

  2. Is 7 rounds of interviews normal for your field? Seems wild any more than 3 or 4

  3. I don’t care if it’s the “norm” for software positions but 7 interviews is ridiculous. Companies are about to start having month long “trial runs” before deciding if they’re giving you an offer.

  5. 400 applications and 7 interviews? What field is this

  6. 7 interviews for 1 job? Utter disrespect of your time.

  7. Any company that requires more than 3 interviews is a red flag and I look elsewhere.

  8. Is the 7 including multiple interviews on the same day? Most of the time I see three rounds: phone screen, technical screen, then a final round with 3-5 sections (e.g. culture, systems, back-end, front-end, database). You could count that as 3 interviews or 7 depending. In any case, it is ridiculous to have 8 hours of interviews for a position. Even more if you aren’t one of 2-3 on the last round.

  10. What the heck, are your pricing yourself out?

    I mean… not to sound harsh but 18 rejections from interviews says a lot really. Excluding the 1-round interviews (which I presume to be HR screenings), there’s 11 times that a company thought your on-paper resume doesn’t match what you appeared to bring to the table.

  11. As someone in IT, seeing these kinds of things terrifies me of the thought of suddenly finding myself out of a job. Yikes

  12. Mind sharing the comp you got? These are wild numbers, wondering if you were looking for a really good job hence the number of applications.

  13. 7 interviews seems…. excessive…., hopefully they’re better to work with than they are to interview with haha 😂

  14. Any suggestions?

    I’m in the same boat. And that boat is in the middle of a long dead and dry sea.

  15. Damn, i had little get together with a company on friday and was offered the position on monday. Things can be different.

  16. If you did more then 10 applications without a job offer, then you did something wrong.
    1. One klick job applications (they are just bad)
    2. Copie past writen and too long application
    3. Studied the same job as 100000 other people like IT engineer that no one needs anymore because 1000 people appl. On the same job..

  18. Man the job market is fucked up if a coder needs 400 applications to get 20 interviews.

    And *seven interviews*? What the fuck else do they need to know at that point?

  19. Congrats. I’m curious, what timeframe did you set for No Reply?

  20. Job hunting for Software engineering fucking sucks because they’ll put you through 7 interviews where you basically solve problems and code for free just to get rejected and/or ghosted.

    I know I’m privileged as it’s a white collar job but I genuinely can’t think of another field that literally tests its applicants in the hiring process. Maybe welders?

  21. Wow, congrats on getting something in this time frame. I’ve been on the hunt for a year now and I’ve only gotten to one final round.

  22. Thanks for posting this. Those are about my numbers too. 

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