My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs

Re:My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs by meddlepal on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:31PM (#23138344)

> 65 days is a very very short time to be on the market

Wait what? Is this just an SF/Valley thing? 60 days on the market is a long time IMO. Long enough that my experience with east coast recruiting is that by the time you hit 30 days offers start evaporating so it makes it difficult to play them off of each other for negotiating purposes.

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Re:My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs by scarface74 on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:05AM (#23142913)

I’m on the east coast and over 20 years and 6 job changes (first one was based on an internship). I’ve had multiple offers within three weeks maximum after I started looking. The shortest was 4 days.

None have required any serious algorithm/LeetCode type of interview.

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Re:My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs by mlthoughts2018 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:45PM (#23185929)

Your experience is such an extreme outlier as to necessitate ignoring it when considering how general job searches go.

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Re:My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs by marcinzm on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:44PM (#23138413)

If you're not good at modern interviews then it can take some time to find a company that either you get lucky on or that uses a different process.

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Re:My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs by Joof on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:55PM (#23138475)

I usually prolong it for travel, but I've always had offers by 60 days in. Anecdote.

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