20+ years of xp, interviews are still hard, still dunno what to do with carrear (lemmy.fbmac.net)

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I think my interview/offer ratio is somewhere below 1%. One factor that you probably guessed is I have very low social skills, well documented in my psychological evaluation that I did to diagnose my ADHD.

I started learning programming about as a preschool kid, in the 8 bits era, then did some Visual Basic desktop apps, C, .NET, embedded C payment devices, vehicle plate recognition systems, backend of payment systems, android programming, etc.

Changing that much was probably a bad thing, as a senior any position I attempt I'll be competing with people that is focused on the same stack for years.

All the best positions ask for fluent english and my pronunciation is not that good, and I'm 44 years old now.

There is no chance I'll move up to management because of said social skills.

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[-] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 points 1 year ago

Y’all are getting interviews???

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If you have a good degree and some experience it's almost trivial to get a programming job. Got mine on my first application within two weeks of the interview. They are desperate for programmers atm.

[-] KaeruCT@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Mentioning the country is really important for these kind of anecdotal posts

[-] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 1 year ago

My resume must be screwed because I have a masters degree and 3 years of experience. Recruiters email me but ghost me as soon as I send the resume

[-] SirNuke@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could be. Anonymize your resume and post it on programming.dev's cscareerquestions or something if you want someone to review it. Assuming you are US based, the market is still cool so you might have to keep treading water or find something that just keeps the lights on for now.

However, I would never assume things make any sense on the hiring side. There's a lot of bad recruiters but there are even more bad hiring managers. Years ago as I sat on the other side of the table for the first time for a presentation and Q&A for intern candidates. When I followed up asking if any had been any offers, I was told none of them performed well enough but it was okay because turns out there wasn't room in the budget for an intern anyway. What a colossal waste of everyone's time.

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