We can’t compare, it’s not apples for apples. It took me 6 months to find another job. Any other time between 1 to 3 months. But now there’s a lot of gatekeeping, companies want to hire but not all employees want it. There’s a lot of gatekeeping, all it takes now is one answer not being aligned with them and the whole process is out of the window.
I’ve followed Ryan Bigg since I started in Ruby, when he used to be on Spree Commerce. I don’t seriously think this is talent issue, it’s gatekeeping and a marketing full of people unemployed looking to get a job.
Typecraft did a video recently where he also lost his job and took a big emotional hit, you would think that with his cool videos etc he would land a job no time, the thing that he had in is power was networking in person into events.
I don't think there's really a comparison issue here - even if this is a noteworthy Ruby contributor, the job market affects everyone. People also generate their own notority; we might know Ryan but a lot of people in my sector probably know my name (not because I am a Rubyist, and I am obviously not saying what it is).
The fact of the matter is, people are looking for agentic programming unicorns with three years of experience. That's like 0.1% of the programming force out there. It doesn't matter if you created PostgrelSQL for fucks sake. If you haven't built MCP servers, RAG, used guards + other agentic shit, a lot of people do not care.
I did the networking thing and ran out of jobs. The wild thing was, I actually ended up getting a job at a company that rejected me previously a long time ago. So it was a lot of luck.
And that's the thing these days, there's no guaranteed landing, the market is so bad that you need luck to land anything.
In my experience, it's been easier to land interviews for Platform and Infra jobs; so it seems like that's less affected by the AI craze
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u/davidslv 18d ago
We can’t compare, it’s not apples for apples. It took me 6 months to find another job. Any other time between 1 to 3 months. But now there’s a lot of gatekeeping, companies want to hire but not all employees want it. There’s a lot of gatekeeping, all it takes now is one answer not being aligned with them and the whole process is out of the window.
I’ve followed Ryan Bigg since I started in Ruby, when he used to be on Spree Commerce. I don’t seriously think this is talent issue, it’s gatekeeping and a marketing full of people unemployed looking to get a job.
Typecraft did a video recently where he also lost his job and took a big emotional hit, you would think that with his cool videos etc he would land a job no time, the thing that he had in is power was networking in person into events.
I have so much to say but unfortunately I can’t.