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>Have a BS in Comp Sci and work on backend/distributed systems with several years of experience? You'll have no problem finding a gig.

This is me. But I had at least one round of phone interviews with about 40 companies before I landed one. Maybe I'm bad at interviewing. A couple of places put me through ~8 hours of interviews all for nothing. I will also add that 3-4 of the places I interviewed with have since had a chunk of layoffs right up to discussions here about them. Maybe I actually got lucky? It sure didn't feel like it after that many failures in a row. Luckily I landed a new role that I'm finding I like.

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You're probably not good at interviewing. That's pretty normal especially if you don't job hop frequently. The good part is you're not being resume screened.

I wouldn't worry too much if I were you. Worst case scenario you can spend time intensively prepping for interviews. :shrug:

>You're probably not good at interviewing.

It does seem to be the common factor. Then again the industrialized interview processes some companies (some of which have since had bulk layoffs) suggests another possibility.

I hate having to develop interviewing as a skill. I'd rather develop my development skills.

I agree. Give companies struggle to evaluate engineers during their employment over a period of months (if not years), I'm not surprised an interview doesn't tell you much about an engineer either.

But I had at least one round of phone interviews with about 40 companies before I landed one

Just wait till you get grey hair!

Too late!

Maybe the companies were the mismatch, not you.

Sometimes they're less sure of their plans than an interviewee might think.

>But I had at least one round of phone interviews with about 40 companies before I landed one.

There were anecdotes like this (and worse) even during the supposed hiring boom of 2021-2022. It was never a walk in the park as the prevailing narrative seems to portray.

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