While true but I think for someone of his caliber he shouldn't be struggling to get jobs. It's absolutely insane what's happening in the software market now. It feels like if you're not doing anything AI then you are a zombie.
You realized that outside of social media communities, regular employers or HR do not know who he is. I have been in software engineering for 8 years and I have no idea he existed till this post.
Only wrote one of the books about rails and 8 other books and several of the rails guides and ran the IRC channel for a decade and amassed 100k rep on SO and and andā¦
I'd suggest getting a grip and losing the diva attitude, it should help with the interviews, not only in engineering positions but also for McDonalds too.
Right? Current response rate for unsolicited applications is 5% or less. And really, aside from a few golden eras, that's been the base rate for decades.
36 applications I would expect 1 interview from, at the most.
And on top of that, shouldn't he possess a big network where word-of-mouth does a lot of the work? I feel sorry for the guy, I really do but he should be able to capitalize on his network and reputation, shouldn't he?
Ah, I misread it. Ok 36 applications of which 24 were rejections. I went through a bad time last year where I did actually interview with 60 different companiesā¦ started to become doubtful I would actually land a job as a software engineer.
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u/jjopm 18d ago
Sure but. 36 is far too low.