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Old 04-19-2022, 11:27 PM   #860
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Originally Posted by spike021 View Post
It's definitely a game of odds... Even just the interview itself. Having the right interviewer who communicates the problem(s)/question(s) to you well, empathizes/sympathizes a bit and can work with you through a mental obstacle (which is surprisingly relevant to real life software engineering, you wind up discussing problems with people very often), the right problem that you know the right pattern(s) for in order to solve it, etc. etc.

My wife was searching for 2.5 years. She had as many as 11 interviews for a single role without landing a job - "internal hire, sorry" being the common response (wtf...) and in the end it was a previous manager knowing someone else they'd both worked with years prior was looking for someone with her skillset - she had to interview as a formality, but was effectively offered the job before any of the interviews. The process is brutal. We're just sheep lined up for slaughter being "allowed" to keep a job as long as a few people are making multiple millions off our efforts... soon as that gets a little too low and they're not sure they can survive on a mere 7 figures annually, boom; lots of folks lose jobs.
yay "capitalism"
Hopefully you find something soon.
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