Ask HN: Why can't I get interviews or offers anymore?

Write one that appeals to a manager. Talk less about what you did in your previous roles and more about "the business value you provided" in your previous roles.

If in doubt, pretend you're your own boss trying to get a raise. What would you say about you to justify it?

Specifically, I got my current job (in September) because I was able to tell a story of how I took an MVP and helped move it to production at scale at a previous company. They didn't care about the tech stack or my day-to-day duties.

- linkedin profile looks weak. Elaborate on what were the duties in form of showing up your professional achievements. Like how you improved the product with your work. How you increased company revenue. Did this -> it lead to that. This approach shows your real impact (at least a sign of it). "reduced infra cost for 20%", "latency decreased which lead to more registrations", "hired and structured 2 team", etc..

- use recruiters. 99% of time their help will be useless but because there are a lot of them this 1% will cover the rest.

- don't spend your time on no-name-another-job-list-platform. it won't work. approach company recruiters directly, apply via linkein or connect with recruiters there.

- "I can do everything for 60k" might sound like a red flag. Avoid it during the conversation.

- Interview passing is a skill. You need a time and a volume of interviews to train it. Doable.

- don't listen to "oh yeah that's a terrible market I can't get a job as well we gonna die poor" comments. you don't know who is behind the comment. like I don't know who are you btw :)

Market is not that bad. It's totally ok. Approach it as a project. Code, code, code, read, watch related videos on youtube. Acquire some clarity that you know your shit.

I wish you all the luck, you will make it!

Half my office was laid off and anecdotally, everyone I know is having trouble finding work.

Hang in there :(

Now might be the time to reach out to your old networks and see if any of them are unofficially hiring. I sent out dozens of applications too and didn't hear back, but reached out to an old contact and they hired me on the spot.

You need to fix this. Is it fair? Probably not, but it's what it is. If you fail the coding test, no one will pass you to the next phase.

My best guess is that you are going up against candidates who are able to fluently process and manipulate CSV data in 40 minutes, probably using python. If that is indeed the gap that is preventing you from passing interviews, consider grinding leetcode problems, and getting good at filtering, sorting, transforming lists and dictionaries, etc.

Finally, I'm sorry to hear your going through this ordeal. Best of luck to you.

Reach out to previous co-workers, managers, vendors you've spoken to, anyone. There's bound to be someone who has a broken website that needs to be fixed. It's more effective to spend two hours applying to one job via a warm lead than it is to send 100 applications out to cold leads.

Lowering your salary expectations won't help that much. If someone were optimizing for cost, they'd outsource to Southeast Asia or India.

Good luck!

What has helped me the least is code quality and GitHub projects/portfolio. This has only helped me in the added technical experience and the ability to talk through a variety of scenarios during an interview.

Now I’ve built https://tangerinefeed.net and am using to it to apply to tons of jobs every day. No offers yet, but a handful of interviews at least.

But they’re aimed at the next tough job market, not this one, so they’re more long term.

[1] https://www.nishantjha.org/essays/squeeze

Was it pandas? Because it looks like they expected to see https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFram...

It’s very weird that two different people cut the interview short.

I have a couple of NodeJS positions open. If you feel like it might work hit me up on my email and let’s talk.

Fuck that. You're better off not working than working for someone like that.

You need to assume that it will take hundreds of applications. It's partly a numbers game.

Maybe try mock interviews if you can afford it? Like with interviewing.io.