Re:My Job Search Story
by MauroIksem on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:57PM
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I find this interesting. My team at a large public university in the United States just failed two rounds of interviews for a senior full stack software engineer position. Salary is around 130k full compensation. This number includes fantastic benefits and 12% match for 401k . We failed the interview because the candidates that we get are very inexperienced and they interviewed terribly not knowing even basic things. However we can't seem to get anyone more experience to apply because their salary demands are too high, so we end up with entry level engineers attempting to apply to senior roles. The university can't afford to pay anymore so we're kind of stuck.
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Why do they do this?
> There are no jobs anymore for experienced hires (at least for us folks outside the US. In my case APAC or AU).
I am having the same trouble, but in my case potential employers seem to want something very specific. I have years of experience with Scala and the JVM, but not Kotlin? Years of experience with Postgres, MongoDB, and Bigtable, but not DynamoDB? That’s a pass. Or at least those are the stated reasons they say to my face. Maybe I just didn’t do brilliantly enough in the phone screen/interviews.
Across the ocean, I’m hearing from friends in the US that entry level positions are impossible to find too. Not a single graduate of a coding boot camp cohort has been able to land a job since February.