To start off, I joined Goldman right out of college (probably my biggest mistake) and allowed to be pigeonholed into front-end development (my second biggest mistake). Over time I grew to like FE dev but I totally neglected backend stuff. I've been doing this for close to 4 years now. Now, that I pretty much need to escape my defunct team asap I can't seem to find a job in NYC. I've been applying for FE positions and some full stack ones and the response rate is low. Most prestigious companies want full stack and I guess I don't fit their requirements. I had some onsites with some good startups end of last year but ultimately got rejected. I do leetcode, I know vanilla JS, Angular 7 and Java, I got a CS degree from a top university, but none of this seem to matter. Is the market so competitive here in NYC or I'm just not impressive enough? At this point I just feel like I'll never make it. Just feel stuck in this mediocrity. Any advice or words of encouragement are appreciated. TC: 140. YOE: 4.
Banking is still toxic and new england is heavily FIRE based so many in your situation.....take some risks...you arent ibanker at GS so you have nothing to lose.
Sure, what kind of risks are you talking about?
How are your communication skills?Many engineers neglect this while interviewing
I'd say they're pretty good. I learned to be outgoing and keep conversation going.
Also, can't even show my communication skills when not selected for interviews in the first place. LMAO.
Sounds like you need a resume makeover
Most likely one of the reasons
Good suggestion. Might as well do that. As for moving to California, no, I'd like to stay either on the east coast or move somewhere like Austin or Colorado.
eooB85, any recommendations?
NYC job hunting is painful in tech. Check out Denver and Austin or for all the jobs, SF.
Funny enough I've been itching to check out those cities for a potential move next year
PM me your resume removing as much sensitive detail as you choose. I’ll let you know if your resume is the problem.
PMed you, thanks
It looks east coast works very differently. I think you need to apply for west coast companies. Resume and past experience don’t matter in west coast (bay and seattle). Only leetcode style and some design questions. Contact the recruiters and ask about west coast positions. Contact all the tech companies you see in Blind.
I'm surprised past experience doesn't matter for companies in the bay since I heard quite a few of them have work history rounds in their on-site.
I had been in west coast (Seattle) for over 7 years and interviewed 20+ in bay and Seattle. No one cares about my past experience though I had been working in hot area (big data and cloud). There is absolutely no work history session. All of the interviews focussed on coding then design. If I do well in those, I got an offer. If I spend too much time on explaining about how awesome my contribution was or cool project it was, that takes up more time in given interview time and fail it. All of my friends have similar experience where they spent 10+ mins about their work and regret doing it. West coast engineers don’t trust school, work history or even attitude sometimes. Half of the interviewers look like robots and they don’t even care much about thought process. All of these are less important than providing an optimal solution.
As long as you can write code, most of the companies don’t care about you working mostly as FE dev.
That would make sense to me, but something seems wrong here since I'm not able to land a new job. I thought it'd be much easier in January... :(