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So I recently interviewed for a job that I did at a competitor. I was a team leader. I was a Senior engineer. I was going up against 300+ people for a single job and I didn’t even make it to the in person interviews. That’s how hard this market is right now. I have 10 years in the industry. And I can’t find a job besides a store clerk position at a grocery store.
Same, I got laid off recently and 12 years of experience isn't even getting me interviews at in-person jobs.
You might be too expensive tbh... Their goal is to drive down your wage here IMHO
I am not sure if there is away out.
They did similar things in accounting and law post 2008. Looks tech is this crisis flavor of wage suppression
The way out is to pivot away from now-oversaturated fields.
The way out is creating cooperative companies where the programmers have more votes than marketing people.
There is and has been this whole time a massive blinking sign that points to the way out and it is called "Unionize"
For the cohort sure but telling a man who need a job to form a union is useless. He needs a job in his field ideally for the same or better comp.
The issue now is that there appears to be an aggressive wage suppression campaign against software developers as result of domestic over supply due to decade old shill campaign along with super aggressive offshoring since covid. Unionizing under these conditions are nearly impossible imho they have unionized when they had market power.