<story><title>Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?</title><text>I’m steadily looking for new opportunities, but am increasingly annoyed by the LinkedIn &amp;#x2F; Indeed grind. I feel like half the jobs are recruiting firms or very bloated positions with &amp;gt;500 applicants.&lt;p&gt;I love the monthly “Who is hiring?” thread — these positions almost always yield more responses and suffer less from false advertising.&lt;p&gt;Are there other sites I’m not considering? Methods I’m not using? How do you find &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; (defined as not bloated and optimized for LI) job opportunities in the current market?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>frfl</author><text>Bit of a tangent, but what has been everyone&amp;#x27;s experience so far in 2023 trying to find a new job? I got really interested in this and have been passively researching it (HN, reddit posts).&lt;p&gt;My conclusion, so far, is unless you&amp;#x27;ve got strong connections it&amp;#x27;s hard right now to find a job. Most job posting, as OP mentions get hundreds if not thousands of applications. Other times, I&amp;#x27;ve personally also notice, candidates with perfect skill&amp;#x2F;experience matches get the same generic rejection (&amp;quot;we respect your experience but we&amp;#x27;re going to go with another candidate&amp;quot;) or worse getting no response at all. There have been mentions of pseudo job posts (ie companies are just falsely advertising positions they are not actually look to fill). Ultimately, a really crappy situation for those looking for a job. Even experienced people, think 7,8,10+ years of experience, are seeing similar things unless they have a strong connection that get them to the final stage(s) of the internet process.&lt;p&gt;Happy to provide a links to relevant online discussions and articles about this situation if anyone is interested. Let me know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teirce</author><text>Been looking since about February. I&amp;#x27;ve probably sent out at least a hundred apps for positions I was interested in and met qualifications for.&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;#x27;ve made it to a recruiter screen around ~10 times, and I&amp;#x27;ve had less than 5 actual interviews follow.&lt;p&gt;I have 6+ years in industry, 4 and some change of which were FAANG (which everyone believes is a golden ticket into any company). And I can&amp;#x27;t even get an interview.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m with OP. The grind is straight up depressing, demoralizing, soul crushing. I&amp;#x27;m close to moving in with family just to preserve my money at this point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?</title><text>I’m steadily looking for new opportunities, but am increasingly annoyed by the LinkedIn &amp;#x2F; Indeed grind. I feel like half the jobs are recruiting firms or very bloated positions with &amp;gt;500 applicants.&lt;p&gt;I love the monthly “Who is hiring?” thread — these positions almost always yield more responses and suffer less from false advertising.&lt;p&gt;Are there other sites I’m not considering? Methods I’m not using? How do you find &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; (defined as not bloated and optimized for LI) job opportunities in the current market?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>frfl</author><text>Bit of a tangent, but what has been everyone&amp;#x27;s experience so far in 2023 trying to find a new job? I got really interested in this and have been passively researching it (HN, reddit posts).&lt;p&gt;My conclusion, so far, is unless you&amp;#x27;ve got strong connections it&amp;#x27;s hard right now to find a job. Most job posting, as OP mentions get hundreds if not thousands of applications. Other times, I&amp;#x27;ve personally also notice, candidates with perfect skill&amp;#x2F;experience matches get the same generic rejection (&amp;quot;we respect your experience but we&amp;#x27;re going to go with another candidate&amp;quot;) or worse getting no response at all. There have been mentions of pseudo job posts (ie companies are just falsely advertising positions they are not actually look to fill). Ultimately, a really crappy situation for those looking for a job. Even experienced people, think 7,8,10+ years of experience, are seeing similar things unless they have a strong connection that get them to the final stage(s) of the internet process.&lt;p&gt;Happy to provide a links to relevant online discussions and articles about this situation if anyone is interested. Let me know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>its_a_random_ac</author><text>Yes, that&amp;#x27;s mostly been my experience (6 years + masters, Bay Area&amp;#x2F;remote positions.)&lt;p&gt;A few other things I&amp;#x27;ve noticed:&lt;p&gt;1. Yes, I&amp;#x27;ve had the &amp;quot;candidates with perfect skill&amp;#x2F;experience matches get the same generic rejection&amp;quot; but I&amp;#x27;ve also had times when I&amp;#x27;d apply for something that I had only a little bit of a match for, and still get pretty far through the interview process.&lt;p&gt;2. Related to #1, I can&amp;#x27;t get a good feeling of how qualified I am for these listings. Sometimes I&amp;#x27;ll apply to something that is in the low 100ks with a customized resume that echos all of their reqs and get rejected, but other times I&amp;#x27;ll just blind fire out my standard resume to something with a base in the mid 200s and get selected for a full interview loop.&lt;p&gt;3. It feels like some places still have the same &amp;quot;standards&amp;quot; for each part of the interview process, leading to a lot of candidates getting to the end, which then leads to some weird &amp;quot;you did well but we chose someone else&amp;quot; responses.&lt;p&gt;4. Sometimes I&amp;#x27;d have an interview lined up, but then right before it I get a &amp;quot;due to shifting requirements, we have to postpone this by a bit&amp;quot; email. This has happened several times now (and they never have actually un-postponed it.) Same thing with spending a day or two interviewing at a place, not hearing back, and then reading of a large layoff at that company a few days later.</text></comment>