Post #1858515

2026-05-01 15:54 UTC

Job hunting as a developer is a nightmare, right? Tell me your stories of navigating the recruitment process as a dev looking for a job, and if you&#39;ve been in the game for a while, tell me how it&#39;s changed lately (I want to use these stories on the Modern Software Engineering channel)

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@mithfindel@mastodon.social 2026-05-01 16:14

@trishagee@mastodon.social been looking for a new position on and off for a few years, and actively since at least September 2025, nothing signed yet. This is the first time in more than 20 years in tech that it takes so long. Actually, most of the previous times, I already had the new plan in place when giving my notice. The current landscape is wild. Most recruiters don't even respond to applications. The ones that do usually blindly trust the LLM behind their ATS. Most of the really good gigs are hidden.

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@axeleroy@toot.community 2026-05-01 19:24

@trishagee@mastodon.social I've been actively searching for 5 months. Employers have become extremely picky and are looking for candidates with the exact set of skills they need for the job: my profile has been declined multiple times late in the process because I lacked professional experience in a specific back-end framework, even though I have experience in similar frameworks I could tap into to quickly learn.

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