A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this economy

Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by angelbob on Friday December 18, 2009 @05:06PM (#1004095)

Depends on a lot of things: where he is geographically sounds pretty good, but he also doesn't have a lot of team experience, and many (most?) places seem to discount most solo hobbyist experience, for a variety of good and bad reasons.

It's hard to find many kinds of developers, but other kinds (and experience levels!) are lucky if they have a job at all right now.

I'm in the enviable position of having about 11 years of full-time experience at coding, and ten or so more amateur/hobbyist/kid years before that, so I can still pretty much dictate terms to most employers. But a lot of people, especially people without as much education and experience, are having a tough time right now.

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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by rayvega on Friday December 18, 2009 @07:08PM (#1004286)

>> ...where he is geographically sounds pretty good...

His current post is misleading because it sounds like he is currently in Seattle where the tech job market is fairly good relative to other places.

However, he was in Seattle but then moved to Charleston, SC where his story begins. http://shadowcoding.blogspot.com/2009/07/moving.html

Given that bit of info it explains a lot about his struggles to find work.

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