Can you give us a little more information on what your resume looks like now? Please? I am really interested

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@@shyjy6241 I didn't choose IT, IT chose me! 😅 But seriously, I learned programming and IT Operations in tandem, but was always daunted by what appears to be the arduous, ring-jumping application and interview prep process. KC's videos don't exactly help on that front! lol Now I have a steady, low-pressure, and decent paying IT gig. Not sure that I want to step in the programming world if it means higher pay but higher stress along with it.

Are you a working software engineer? And have you gotten jobs with this little work or prep involved? Because this has not been mine or many others experience.

@@eliana993 I'm unemployed for almost a year now but I stand by what I said. I have had many software engineering jobs but 20 years in and I may be moving on to something else. Play silly games win silly prizes. Bar the first couple years starting out I have not ever 'failed' an interview I didn't want to 'fail'. You don't need to put up with nonsense.

If that's your main problem, you're quite fortunate. Plenty of people are ready to take anything but can't even get their foot in the door.

agreed. from my experience you have to kiss a lot of ass and drink the corporate koolaid to be on the good side of execs that are greedy f*cks

The market will likely be better by the time you graduate though. This industry is very cyclic, with notable crashes in 2000, 2008, and this year. It'll be back again though.

@z7sk It seems like the explosion of people wanting to get into tech combined with current developers getting laid off, any future improvements in the market will be met with a huge pent-up supply of applicants. It seems very similar to other industries like trucking.

@@willford-sn4ko I don't know if trucking is a good industry to compare to. Software engineer automate things. If software engineers are no longer useful, it means everything useful that could be automated HAS been automated, and we now live in an AI-controlled utopia/dystopia and your job no longer matters at all. As long as this isn't the case, engineers will continue to be useful. Then there's also the fact that engineering is similar to law and medicine, where the best engineers/lawyers/doctors have ridiculous salaries. On top of that, any of these professions are well positioned to start a business. A trucker can start a trucking company, but it's a rather limited option and you don't get the skills for it by being a trucker. Engineers learn how to build systems that work well, and this knowledge is easily transferable to many industries. I wouldn't give up on an engineering degree if I were you, at least not because you feel like the industry is dying (it's not).

@@willford-sn4koUnlike trucking the current day software industry is driven by investments. Unless the companies figure out a way to cut costs(reduce salaries) for the long term I don’t think there’ll be real improvements.

@@willford-sn4koThis is also why the interviews are so ridiculous. The companies are aiming to hire the talent that look very smart and appealing to investors rather than the ones who can get things done.

true but they want ppl with fundamental skills that can go down to low level of computers

You being serious or??…

Bro, this is basic shit 🤣

This was written at the beginning of the video, I had a feeling it would be mentioned, it's the one thing I hate.

I think a big issue is that employee's have too much protection, so it's very risky to hire the wrong people. For startups that don't have all the in-house experience with "hiring the wrong person" it can be even more scary. It is also much more critical to have the right people, because you are going to prove to the marked that it is worth taking the risk to become a customer and then there are no room for mistakes, because that will very fast end up with "its not worth the risk to be their customer at the moment"

@@ErnaSolbergXXX Are you insane? Employees have no protection from anything.

@@CrashOverride332maybe not in third world murica but EU employees have rights

@@odra873 That's an illusion. The companies just make it so shitty to work there that you'll quit on your own. France is good at this.

try documenting learning experiences you had on the job or creating blog articles getting into the nitty gritty stuff that interests you. I implemented a storage area network for an employer that eventually took my early career downhill but i learned a lot in the process and have hope i will supersede those bastards

its super saturated from social media pushing everyone to do tech via bootcamp. Now theres a bunch of candidates with not enough positions. Reason the bars just keeps getting raised on these interviews. Over time these people will probably leave the industry and hopefully the market gets better

I once dated a dentist. She said to me that she sent a lot of applications. And I asked how many it was and she said 5. And she got invited to 5 interviews. And when she declined 4 of them, they kept calling her.

@@bayern1806Dentists make bank

Because most people filling non technical parts of the industry (managers, hr, leadership...etc) are bumbling idiots that entered the industry chasing cash without any passion for their own roles. This is why companies are going bust or have skilled staff jump ship.