I worked most of my career in .NET. Couldn’t get a single place to hire me. Eventually ended up getting a Java role ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I do miss some of that nice syntax sugar.

This happened to me a lot on the other side. I’d apply for a job, hear nothing, assume I got screened out and then months later get an email saying “oops we aren’t hiring anyone for this role anymore”.

> Because I really need a job I've just been applying to everything. Minimum wage: I don't care. In a way I'm actually looking forward to just show up, do my job, and go home, without stress.

> But I get almost no response on those.

Weren’t these the same people bitching about how no one wants to work?

> I'm hearing lots of stories of companies laying people off and then there are new openings very similar to the position that was let go

I haven’t seen much of this, but I’m constantly getting notifications about jobs I was reject for months ago being reposted. I’m not sure if it’s resume fishing or if company’s have delusional standards. And I’m not talking about too their tech companies either.

It basically destroyed me. I spent most of 2023 unemployed after being laid off in late 2022. I was working for a small SaaS company that went from ~100 to ~200 in the past couple years and than subsequently dumped the recently hired ~100 a year later.

Part of my problem was I really wanted to avoid moving and stay remote. That turned out to be impossible. I ended up taking a job and moving to place I don’t care for so far. I’m pretty sure I only got it because of a referral because I was less qualified for it than many of the roles I was getting rejected for.

My career was rotting anyway. I’m not going to waste time typing out an essay, but I’m pretty sure I’ve hit my peak pretty early and there’s not much left for me to do (or that I care to do). I still had some ounce of ambition prior to the layoff, but that’s gone now. I just feel defeated. I was actually planning to leave the industry prior to the layoff, but that won’t happen now.

I really related to this.

I keep wondering if my career peaked in 2020 and for a year or so I've become increasingly negative about my future career progress in tech.

I'm kind of in the opposite situation to you though. Desperately want to move, but can't. Not any time soon anyway. This will hold me back I'm sure.

Just wanted to leave a comment wishing you the best.

> A lot of users don't seem to recognize racism or sexism when it is not directed at them. This leads them to think it is not a problem.

Well for a site that loves to jack off to how much smarter they are than the rest of the internet, I’m just shocked.

Ok I know what e/acc is but what the fuck is u/acc?

> With technology you can help people in different groups to understand better people in the other group.

I’m laughing harder than when the blockchain lunatics claimed they were going to solve political corruption. Well at least they had some contrived “how” instead of just making a completely unexplained speculation.

> To me your comment is the outcome of smug, baseless superiority.

lol you’re on HN what do you expect?

> If you're entering a role at a mid-level or junior, you're likely stuck with their tech stack choices. At senior or higher, it's usually about delivering results and the tech stack is up to you.

> I've never paid much attention to specific job requirements, just whether or not I could solve the problems they were looking to solve.

So then I assume you’ve always been a senior developer?

Also I think this probably depends on domains/culture/multitude of factors. There are a lot of places where senior is just “cog with a lot of experience” or “cog with a lot of tenure”.