Meanwhile, I’ve been under here for two weeks straight. I go underground at 730am, and exit about 630pm. Aside from an hour in the morning and a couple in the evening, I only see the sun on week ends. I am become mole person.

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    basically ever programmer i know (including me!!) can’t find a job. its more like, learn to code and also travel back in time to when it was super easy to get a job doing it and then pray you don’t get laid off

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      It’s fucking impossible for sure. My current job and best leads come from recommendations from people I know in industry. But I’ve done plenty of interviewing outside of that to little success lol. But keep at it, opportunities do exist it just takes a lot of digging. I recommend automating as much of the application process as possible, I can easily do 50 applications a day after work without too too much time investment.

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      Can confirm. I graduated summa cum laude in CS and created a core technology that most people use and it’s tough for me. The leet code problems have become insane, the bar is so high now. One job, I gave the interviewer a graph coloring optimization to parallelize a shortest city walk and I got feedback that I ‘barely passed’ the interview.

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        yea im not too great at leetcode in interviews, so I’d be cooked trans-sad well and the fact i can’t mask autism and appear fem doesn’t help. i gave up on it, mostly hoping my friends can have some luck with it