Graduating from university this year, i have been grinding programming projects for a year and improving my portfolio, but seeing jobs dry up. Every job advertised is senior :(

Best piece of advice I've heard on the subject. A lot of the other videos are mostly just saying stick to it, but not giving any real actionable steps. This video is really good in parallel to your "Your goals suck" video. Thank you for continuing to make great content for all levels of developers.

Thank you for bringing this up Theo, I started looking for that first opportunity a little before this video came out and hearing you speak about it, it's sort of soothing... yes, the market is rough for Juniors at the moment but, good advice is always welcome!

Thanks for covering this. I'm a CS student and self taught web dev, and this isn't the easiest time to jump into doing it professionally

Great advice Theo. Thanks for sharing !

Thanks for your input on this, I’m a mid level engineer who was laid off a few months ago and getting a new role has been extremely challenging. It’s been a great opportunity to learn more and make sure I’m well equipped for my next role tho

This was a nice video to watch. Thanks Theo! It will get better. It’s just a weird time as we get over COVID.

Thank you so much for talking about this. I've been applying and trying to get my first professional role for a few months now and it has really been a tough grind. At this point I'm strongly considering going freelance and sticking to smaller businesses and clients, I feel like that might be the best way to get a foot in the door and prove myself

Theo, finding your videos has been a career changing experience. For people like me who work on a small groupp of not so experienced devs, your insights sometimes serve mentoring and guidance. You have helped me to be more confident in my decisions at work as a front-end engineer for a brazilian startup. Please don't stop bringing this type of content to our community. Thank you very much. 🚀🚀

I got my first tech job two weeks ago as a junior backend developer principally because of this channel!

Thanks for the encouragement! Some great advice too.

Thanks for this Theo! Great insights

4:51 best part of this video! Thank you Theo your valuable advices.

Feeling ominous. Thanks for this. Graduating in a month.

Personal GitHub projects can make technical conversations more enjoyable, when you talk about your approaches to a problem, you can skip the difficult questions and get to the offer much faster. But most repositories should solve an interesting problem and have a little story behind it, not just center the form in HTML.

Graduated a few months ago and got a job as an Qt Engineer at my current company. For my degree and my intern ship there I have developed Flutter apps. Kinda ruff going from a modern framework to c++ and embedded devices. I kinda wanted to do Web and flutter way more. But your advice showed me that I have to prove myself in any position. Not just language or framework specific, but as a dev in general. And in this time of recession I’m grateful for having a job in general.

Thanks for the encouraging words Theo.

This senior dev stuff is insanely helpful, there's only so much you can learn from tutorials. There's a next level of coding logic and "industry theory" that no one is really talking about. The only other place to access this is to actually be working next to these people and for a

As software engineers, a lot of us were sold on the idea that our skills are in demand, yet the market feels so remote from that reality (or perhaps its my autism / interview skills) But I think for a lot of people that's the truth of it, and just knowing how to deploy a simple site for somebody or make their lives easier with tooling is where many of us should be looking...

Fantastic advice.

Yeah, I was laid off 5 months after finishing graduation, now I'm focusing on doing personal projects to improve and try a new position somewhere

Feels good to be stable in my current career and can just continue building until the right time comes around

From what I've seen, although there are some engineers being laid off, I think the majority are HR people/recruiters. The hiring freezes mean there's no reason to keep a recruiter.

Man you are my morning show 📺

I got this idea when watching the job market, not much is available for people with less experience in the tech stack asked. Currently, I am trying to get into a development position, which looks to be difficult. Upside is I have years of management and Scrum Master experience, just want to start making things instead of only doing “management”. Better times will come!

I'm not only just starting out my career in development but I'm also self taught so if I ever get a job it will be a great achievement for me.

From the standpoint of someone who was in tech during the 2008 crisis, this is some of the most sensible advice ever in this channel. "Become indispensable" is the best thing you can achieve. Even if it's only a facade. Even if it's only a "oh, they just know who can solve this issue we have in the project" or "oh, they can keep the users happy / out of our face / get the true specs they need" etc. Be someone your company / team cannot part with. Also, this is the time where the ace-in-the-sleeve called "people skills" really, REALLY shine. At this moment, as was back then, good engineers were a dime a dozen. But people you know you can "work well with"? Now, that's a different question.

I got my first job almost 2 years ago now. I'm still there because my team is awesome and I really believe in my managers vision which I've never had that happen before. The process of getting that first job really sucked. I can't imagine what other new devs are going through now.

Junior dev here, I graduated in June and have had a few interviews, but no jobs yet. Jobs are receiving hundreds of applications, and because now we can work remotely, people are applying from multiple countries and states, so competition is rising from layoffs, graduates and remote work.

You: We don't have to break up... Is there something I can do differently? 😢💔 Tech Companies: It's not you, it's me. 💵💰🤑

We are in a financial recession. So anything that is related to interest rates is affected. For example if a business borrows money from a bank to pay employees rather than having revenue than that business won’t be able to do so as cheaply. If a business has strong cash flows ( a product that people pay for and can be made for less money than what they charge) then it’s in good shape.

I guess patience, strategy, and keeping the passion alive with growing and making excellent projects and networking is the only solution. Or go freelance and start something which will make money.? I don't have a crystal ball but I am passionate about programming. Now is the time to pivot and change the game plan. Because there still must exist opportunities with programming skills..

Can confirm, senior still getting plenty of job offers.

No connections 😅- I'm not a fan of "the space" you mention, so I don't have any desire to be seen within it. But I'm working on being as valuable as possible in my current role. 7+ year Web Engineer. Nice vid Theo!

Spot on, unfortunately. I was laid off from Amazon at exactly the 6 month mark. In my final month, I had started producing code for projects at roughly the same timeline it would have taken more senior engineers (on top of helping out peers and improving resources), which makes it feel like I was actually adding value. It seems weird to me that a company would decide to sink so much pay and signing bonus and recruiting cost into an employee only to let them go when they would actually start giving an RoI…

Where should early career people move to? Is silicon valley still the place to start a career or should someone consider somewhere else like Austin etc.? Seems like the VC structure is still pretty strong in SF but will that continue or will they move to TX or FL like everyone else seems to?

i've worked as a jr dev for 6 months, and now just moved to a new city and it's been impossible to find anything. super stressful :(

Does this affect offshore also ?

Boutta get crazy.

It's so hard to get any entry-level jobs now. I'm a CS student learning webdev and its tough

An hour after this video the company I work announced a lay off as well lol

Taking ownership of my career is so point on. It takes a lot of work, but being valuable based on my skills and contributions is key. Great video!

Came here to say the thumbnail is funny af😂

Hey, I’m looking for some advice. I have spent years learning on my own which has resulted in having a great understanding and ability to get things done. The problem is until semi-recently I only had the intention of working on my projects. I have had only one job in this field in which I was offered by a developer friend. That is the only work experience I have to put on my resume. What is a good way to represent my knowledge and get a job? Note: I am a Fullstack/Backend Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, etc. developer

It would be tough to be graduating right now. The market will be really awesome in probably 2ish years from now though.

How do you manage your work? From a non managers perspective.

Probably something else to note but when the going is good make sure to save money. Save it at the beginning of the month, so you pay yourself first. Keep half a years worth of rent and food. This way when it winds down, you have more options available to you rather than desperately begging for scraps.

What does that 6mo cadence look like when happy with current role? Like, would I just be wasting new companies' time?

man i just got graduated and here in India, can not see a single listing of a grad engineer, entry level jobs state 3 years experience man

I kind of feel lucky to not be selected by any big company ever. I will happily continue doing freelance and making some decent cash.

fuck just when im starting

Thanks theo, im an undergrad and a self taught webdev, hope to ride out this storm

Isn't FAANG actually MAMAA now? Like wouldn't it be Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Apple?

I hate some of the companies that are flower power and hiring like lunatics just that they can fire when there's a small possibility shit hits the fan

Now I'm fukin scared. I am graduating June 2023 and job market is getting worse day after day

When I was starting, I decided to be jack of all trades, master of none xD Then when someone needed a skill, I learned and focused on that particular skill I got good at that skill I mastered it Now, people want me

Thanks, this is real advice for real people, I think answering questions on Stackoverflow will also help

Man I have the worst luck lol

I just feel bad for all new graduates

I am seeking for my first job... f*ck

A note on your early career suggestions: I was HIGHLY valuable and even completed a large project that is used at a Fortune 100 company, IN PRODUCTION, before six months. Guess what: still got my marching orders because a director didn't like me. The lesson was worth it.

As someone that just got their first job as a dev not too long ago, I started to provide value from day 1 to be honest. I feel like I have senior level knowledge because I just worked on my own starup project (enterprise level) for so long. But because most companies don't count that as experience. I am a person with near senior level knowledge working a junior dev position. Because I couldn't even get senior level interviews due to nothing on my resume and me not wanting to show my project because I want to commercialize it.

wtf are you on about? recruiters are kicking in my doors as we speak 😂

This is the field I am still not into that much: networking online. Building a portfolio and a network of people you converse with is pretty much key to get good jobs imo.

"Not in the adopt technologies no one knows how to use sense" Why not?

so you say companies are more and more hiring senior devs and less and less hiring junior devs. Is that really a thing? If so they're super dumb. If no juniors get hired, how are they supposed to become seniors then?

I'm a Brazilian junior dev, who only has worked on local companies. I've been trying for the last few weeks to land a remote job for a company in Na/Eu because of the currency difference. It has been challenging :(

Easy, name your variables x1 x2 x3... they have to keep you on if you're the only one who can read your code. 🤔

Anyone have a TLDR, dont have audio

Damn man. If only people listened to you three weeks ago and made themselves available to their employer 24/7 maybe they’d still have their job. :/ let’s judge a collective set of singular experiences by their similarities..not informatively..but definitively 😮😉

Market needs to crash so the federal reserve quickly drops interest rates

I'm looking to hire a remote full stack dev with 2+ years experience in React and TypeScript. Comment if interested

Hi yt comments, hire me pls?

Do you work a job? care to share some tips if you don't?

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3:53 The problem with the prescriptions you made: 1. Everyone tries to appear as indispensable as possible on their resumes and in their interviews. In reality, it's a big challenge for companies to tell good and bad developers apart. The only ones that standout are the very talented ones, but they are far and few in-between. 2. I am from Canada, so I don't know how it is in the US, but in my experience companies generally don't browse prospective employees' GitHub pages unless they have some prior interest in hiring the candidate. Like for example, if you met a recruiter at a career or networking event, they might checkout your LinkedIn along with your GH. 3. A lot of people who make hiring decisions disregard software projects done for school, unless it is something extraordinary that you did for like a Master's degree or PhD. Making a todo list app with React, just doesn't cut it. 4. Contributing to OpenSource projects is a legit way of getting experience, but the barrier to entry is higher than people like to admit. It can take quite a significant time investment in getting up to speed with an OpenSource repo. Time that can be spent earning money in an in-between job. My suggestions: Keep steadily refining your skills and putting in the maximum effort to find a job, while maintaining an in-between job, but don't worry if you can't find one right away.

Graduated this year but worked hard in previous years to get a part time programming job - Right when I was about to go full time with the company I was told they could not afford me and I had to look for opportunities. Anyway ffw a few months and they came back to me with a full time offer along with a good chunk of equity so I took it. Really nothing better than having someone crawl back to you because they realised you were giving them a fucking good deal. So I can confirm following Theo's tips and making yourself indispensable actually works - keep grinding people.