Getting Hired as a Software Developer is Impossible 🙄

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Let's fix your LinkedIn, resume and approach to getting hired in tech if you have no experience. If you're interested in becoming a software developer, then join me at Parsity.io
00:00 The Tech Job Market Crisis?
00:49 Common Mistakes in Job Applications
01:57 Crafting an Effective Resume
06:37 Optimizing Your GitHub Profile
09:26 Leveraging LinkedIn for Job Search
14:11 Gaining Experience and Building Projects
18:17 The Role of Time and Luck
20:24 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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@kusurugizeme 23 дня назад

I can't imagine disliking a take so much that I would email a person because of it. That's wild

@LeftoverSundriesMan 22 дня назад

As A CS degree holder who's still looking for their first full-time position, I am tired of volunteering my time for others and trying to navigate the politics of open-source projects just to try to gain some experience that would give me a chance at gaining paid employment. I'm beginning to need income so badly that I'm expanding my job search to nearly anything that will give me a callback.

@hikemalliday6007 21 день назад

The struggle is real man I hope you can find something. I wish we would known how bad it would become. I could have spent all this time doing something else and making money. However at the end of the day, I'm at least for thankful that I learned, amd to be honest the process of learning code has given me skill to study anything else really.

@TheCocoaDaddy 16 дней назад

My nephew was in the exact same position. After graduating with his CS degree, he spent a YEAR looking for work. He landed his first job today! A full-time position at that. So, keep looking, keep applying and try applying at as many places as you can.

@hikemalliday6007 16 дней назад

Well here's an update if anyone cares, I was just asked if I had interest in working any open positions here (my internship ends tomorrow). I said yes of course, boss said ok I wasn't sure good to know. We are having a meeting tomorrow about restructuring things and potential openings, and now that I know your interested I have something to work with. So we will see. I guess the point is don't give up. Either way I have a 5 month intern on my resume and a good reference For context, I didn't think there was a flying chance in hell they would even consider offering me a job, because from what I can see, the only true value makers are the SDE2's etc. You can train a monkey to wire together pre-made components (aka junior work) but who knows maybe I'm wrong

@hikemalliday6007 16 дней назад

Also it should be noted that I got the internship through networking, so my advice is , networking is stronger than anything else at the moment. The more people you talk to, the more opportunities arise. It's a law of nature

@hikemalliday6007 16 дней назад

And I truly hope the best for all of you guys. Take care

@georgebaraza9141 19 дней назад

Work for free to gain experience? Call it pride if you like but this is the last thing I can think of as a developer. It makes those you working for take advantage of your desperate situation to extort you. If you can't secure a freelancing gig, just work on atleast 3 full stack projects that you can add to your resume; something that could keep your conversation with hiring managers/decision makers going. Tech content creators should discard this idea of advising unemployed software engineers to do free work. Are you aware that some of these developers are on their own, and have to fend everything for themselves, including the most basic of things like food? No software developer, regardless of their employment status should adopt this kind of self-defeating strategy.

@first001 9 дней назад

Content creators are going to be out of touch and making light of the current crisis, they need to create a light at the end of the tunnel to build their channels.

@georgebaraza9141 6 дней назад

@@first001 exactly

@user-zz7xk6ht5h 21 день назад

Supply and demand. Also unchecked expectations. As a Data Scientist, can confirm 80% of interviews require elite coding stages, and I do analysis all day instead of software dev. Within 1 hour of job posting, 100+ responses. The VP where I work got over 100 qualified resumes for a single position. Employers can set super high expectations from a potential candidate. Was told in an interview for Lowes(!) that I would have to survive multiple rounds of high level coding challenges! Interviewers would not even go on camera!

@perc-ai 23 дня назад

Brian you are completely delusional. It's a simple demand supply problem. Just think about how many millions of people are in a CS degree program right now around the world, bootcamps, or self teaching online every single year.... There too many people learning to code and not enough jobs for it. Where are the millions of jobs you are spouting? Don't you realize those statistics are overreported, companies put multiple job ads on different places all the time. There's less jobs than you think or others are reporting.

@cristian-florea-coding 22 дня назад

demand is there, the supply is filled with trashy new developers that can't even write a for loop or know the difference between var, let and const.

@exec.producer2566 22 дня назад

The answer that people don’t want to hear is that US companies should only be allowed to hire US citizens for their positions. There would no longer be a supply, demand problem. 99% of this problem stems from Billion dollar companies only hiring H1B candidates who undercut the stapled salary to get a VISA and work here. They then proceed to refer their entire caste to the company until the entire software department is ran by foreigners creating a large disconnect between management & developers. This requires the company then to keep those developers onboard as there is no longer just a technical vs nontechnical disconnect, but both cultural and language disconnects as well. Not to mention the security problems this induces. China was years behind us in AI prior to ChatGPT, but somehow managed to catch-up in months. This definitely wasn’t the result of foreign developers relaying trade secrets back to their home country.

@powerHungryMOSFET 22 дня назад

@@cristian-florea-coding What are you talking about? Leetcode or similar coding is mandatory in all the interviews. There are few jobs available and so many developers that’s the issue at the moment. Are you in the U.S. btw? I mean it seems you are in a foreign country and talking about the US job market

@cristian-florea-coding 22 дня назад

@@powerHungryMOSFET in my program we use codewars, I find it to be enough to reach level 5. For most jobs

@user-zz7xk6ht5h 21 день назад

Can confirm. As a Data Scientist, 80% of interviews in my domain now require and demand elite coding talent to outcompete 100 others. By the time job is posted, 100+ responses in less than an hour. Too much demand, employers can now set super high demands for candidates...@@powerHungryMOSFET

@RecreationalNuke 24 дня назад

Protip: just lie on your resume. Everyone else is.

@Kawka1122 24 дня назад

That's legit good tip. Believe this guy

@awakenedone7577 24 дня назад

So true, tried 2 years and couldn't get a job. After I lied, I got a job right away, didn't even know the language they were using visual basics. But I faked it till I made it, and won employee of the year.

@canodepvc2837 23 дня назад

I can confirm. Said I was black and got a position for POC. Because I'm mexican they couldn't do anything about it.

@ismaelhossen1032 23 дня назад

@awakenedone7577 What things do you cheat about? Could you please give us some tips and insights?

@brianjenney 23 дня назад

lol - I've seen this work for sure

@LifeWithSeb99 22 дня назад

As a person with 2 years software experience after 14 interviews with 6 different companies in the last 5 months I finally got a software engineer job with not even too good salary and I can confirm it was hard

@hikemalliday6007 21 день назад

2 years exp as in internships?

@LifeWithSeb99 21 день назад

@@hikemalliday6007 no, internships are a scam. I had 1 year as a junior and 1 year as a mid dev in a different company. That first junior role was offered to me after I had 1 year of IT software support + implementation experience, but a big factor was 2 years of self learning that I did consistently alongside that first job and I could prove that with some completed courses and my GitHub activity + small projects. I have no degree in anything

@LifeWithSeb99 21 день назад

@@hikemalliday6007 no, I think internships are a scam. I had one year as a junior and one year as a mid in another company. And before that, I had one year as an IT support + implementation role, but a big factor was that I did 2 years of self-learning alongside that, I have no degree at all

@FatherPhi 24 дня назад

Didn’t watch the whole video, but this seems to ignore the fact that entry level jobs are hardly being opened in the US at large, high paying companies and the competition is highly educated and qualified in many cases. I agree that people shouldn’t give up, but they will likely have to start very small with very low pay and wait out the storm.

@brianjenney 23 дня назад

I'm not making an argument that it is easier or harder than some other point in time. It is objectively more difficult than 10 years ago. The goal is to give people what I think is a better approach to finding work

@AngelGiurov 22 дня назад

@@brianjenney My man... You have indians out here who get hired because they get paid literally peanuts. But the reason they get hired is because they are dirt cheap even though they are not qualified enough. There are many amazing developers who haven't had a job in a year or two and seniors nowadays have no clue wtf it is to be a junior in this job market. HR ladies out here spending 7 seconds reviewing your resume and rejecting you for not having every specific technology. Even the ones that are working almost identical or the ones that take literally a day at most to learn. These same goofy HR ladies asking you technical questions nodding like they understood anything just to end the interviews the moment they hear 2.5 YOE instead of 3. Here's a video idea for you. Create a junior resume, apply all your tips you've mentioned in your video, start applying to jobs and tell us how many interviews you've got. You'd be lucky to get a single interview after months. Good luck in the interview itself though. There's always someone more experienced who is more desperate than you...

@ooogabooga5111 23 дня назад

It really is the worst time to be a software engineers for real, market is saturated and there is no actual demand for more programmers. The demand vs supply curve is highly unpropotionate in 2024. I would honestly advice everyone to refocus career into something different.

@brianjenney 23 дня назад

I'm curious - what other career would you have career changers focus on? What career is "safe"

@ooogabooga5111 23 дня назад

@@brianjenney I will tell what I think about the current state of the world. Capitalism has been an overall economic benefit to humanity as technological advancements in science was moving very rapid. There were many sectors in the traditional space where technology could help boost the humans in being more efficient. Most of those requirements have already been met. What is new in the market? If you really think about it the actual innovation is only happening in highly specialised roles in big firms. Most of the common man problems have been met, this is why most of the apps, websites, ideas people think are innovative are failing. I myself have been involved in many projects which really doesn't have any value and has no growth. Everything is already cemented. This is not the 2005s, where one could say ohh the internet could get faster. Nobody even expects the download speeds to be more than what they have, nobody cares and is not useful to have a mouse with 200,000 dpi. Literally no one cares. There are few organisations and apps that actually function and generate profit because it is built on top of traditional systems and ideas that makes it easy. If you take technology as a whole market validation has already been done. And is almost complete if you are from a developed to developing. country. Capitalism is productive and fast but is not sustainable and that's why major IT giants are falling. Moving forward every country is going to learn to be sustainable and this might be over exaggerated but it could lead to another war. Rich countries will be less rich. Poor countries will grow. take an IMF forcast, you will see what I'm talking about. Anyway abt the jobs, no job is safe but unless you work in a big corporate the mental insanity of being IT is not worth it. Any other job is more relaxing.

@ooogabooga5111 22 дня назад

@@brianjenney lmao you removed my comment

@FinancialMediaa 22 дня назад

@@ooogabooga5111what careers to be exact

@akmal5027 22 дня назад

@@brianjenney I believe Digital Marketing is quite a lucrative career option, I believe it's not as saturated as SE in 2024. I graduated last year in SE and couldn't land a decent job ever since.

@first001 9 дней назад

CS grads have grown to such an extent that they outpace supply, especially now that we are no longer in a low interest environment. A decade ago there we had about 25k grads annually, now we are way over 100k. Supply and demand.

@detader8846 22 дня назад

i have a business which makes mobile app games. I hired my friend for a percentage of the revenue. Now he makes a good salary, same as me. My point is that why should we as developers "get hired", rather than do something of our own. Yes making a business is going to require blood, sweat and tears, but after it all ends the outcome is better than a regular job.

@rakansadat7572 22 дня назад

If you don’t mind me asking, how did you start going that entrepreneurial route being a software developer? Did you first start out with mobile games or you started with something else and kept tried something till something sticked?

@detader8846 22 дня назад

@@rakansadat7572 I've been making mobile games since I was a kid. One game started making money so I decided to give myself into it. In the game industry you must be very creative and get in touch of what children like, because these are most of consumers. You will have way more responsibilities than a regular worker of course.

@michealsmith3407 22 дня назад

I agree. Wage slavery isnt the only way to get money. Find clients yourself, make a web agency. Run google ads. If you dont have the skill to make a good looking agency site, go full template script kid mode. Make static or WordPress sites. Thats literally the entire job for small businesses. Start out charging $25 an hour, x40 hours = $1000. Use that calculation in your head. Then keep doubling your rate until it gets unjustifiable, and move to value based pricing.

@Hmoney0 7 дней назад

This is the way wish you continued success

@MrRoryG 22 дня назад

Some interesting comments here. As someone who's interviewing a lot of candidates at the moment some of the things that I pay attention to are; 1. If it's on your resume be able to talk about it. Don't just put stuff on there and hope it doesn't come up. Trust instantly gone if it does. 2. If you don't know something just admit it. Being humble is important, nobody knows everything and being able to admit that is massive for me anyway. 3. Personality and attitude are huge factors. You'll need learn as you go, regardless of experience, so interviewers are picturing themselves being the one who's working along side you at the start. 4. Show that you're enthusiastic about tech/dev, keep abreast of it in your own time, etc. Someone who did a course just to get a job is a red flag.

@hikemalliday6007 21 день назад

I resonant with the honesty part, because cmon man we are all adults here, and bullshit is a huge turnoff

@hikemalliday6007 21 день назад

Its really fucking hard to get in this field right now, i would not recommend it. Im almost 2 years self taught and about to complete a 5 month internship, but the other intern, who if anything is smarter than me, was just told that under normal circumstances they would hire him, but cant right now. I have my meeting about it monday and expect to hear the same thing.

@airysm 14 дней назад

Did you get it?

@hikemalliday6007 14 дней назад

@@airysm Hey man. So yesterday was my last day, and they told me "hold on to your work computer for now, im not gonna tell you to send it back. There is a good chance we will give you an offer in early august, i just cant say 100% because we are doing a big restructure at the company at the moment, but you def passed, and the CTO likes you" (its a small company). So, there is a good chance, and at the very least I now have a resume + solid refernce. How about you, are you employed, or learning to code?

@GeeGnebAb 4 дня назад

please update us, did you get hired? (I hope) @@hikemalliday6007

@shafialanower3820 3 дня назад

@@hikemalliday6007hope you find success a lot

@shadofermusic День назад

@@hikemalliday6007 so you just doom posted for no reason

@srsh12345 22 дня назад

Love all your advice. So much of it makes sense and aligns with my own experiences trying to enter development world.

@JoniniTheChickenNugget 24 дня назад

This is great advice of jobs (especially STEM) in general! This helps me as a BME student!

@owenbartolf4217 22 дня назад

I will say, cleaning out the Github was a very good suggestion I haven't heard anyone else. I removed a bunch of garbage school class repos to ensure that only my best stuff is the most visible.

@-Engineering01- 20 дней назад

Civil, mechanical, chemist, petrol engineering is the way to go. No one asks you leetcode problems in these type of jobs, job security is rock solid, only the pay is a bit lower than SDE but that's okay i think because SDE salaries are getting lower tho. And there's no any bootcamps for other engineerings to flood the market. Choose any engineering other than CS. (if you don't fall in love w/ programming btw). SDE it's not the hottest thing anymore and never will again, that just was a balloon.

@Joshua.Developer 23 дня назад

All this seems like a pain in the ass. I really don't think I would like working in the tech world.

@kompila 23 дня назад

It's not for everyone Josh.

@Joshua.Developer 22 дня назад

@@kompila I meant the culture. I'm a developer no matter if I have a job or not. I'll add to opensource and build things for my self and others. That is what the greats did but NOW honestly everybody is running to it like a gold rush in hopes on making $100k a year. That is fine, BUT I think unless you really really love this think about what you really doing everyday. In front of a PC screen going through 100s of lines of code and fixing things. Some people are in for a huge shock when they realize that is what they will be doing.

@kompila 22 дня назад

@@Joshua.Developer 100% agree with your assertion, and I like the mindset of building for the collective good of everyone. Honestly, I am developer as well, but I don't see my self in this work culture for the next 15 years. I am 25 now. Working around the clock to setup both a digital and physical business that can keep me going in the next few years. Programming someone's will for a living just doesn't work well with my soul. It is a tough world. 🙂

@bulelanibotman 23 дня назад

top tier quality video, just shared it & spread it out!

@samirankakoty 25 дней назад

Great advice! Thank you.

@itismydump 19 дней назад

Protip: they either want to consider hiring you or not. You can be prepared and ready and all that, if ultimately the hiring principle doesn't see the need to make the hire right then, it just won't happen. Beware, the vast majority of who you interview is NOT the final decision maker, especially another techie/engineer. They may be delegated the authority prior. Then and only then, is it a pure technical challenge and your experiences, projects, and resumes come into play.

@dj-xn6po 22 дня назад

@ Brian Jenney This is my first time watching one of your videos. I’m a rising freshman Cybersecurity major. Honestly I’ve only watched 4.5 minutes so far and I really like the way you explain things. Tho a few of the comments find your advice discouraging there’s a lot more people myself included who genuinely appreciate you making this video. I decided to subscribe to your channel. Im definitely going to watch more of your videos and heed your advice. You’re doing a bang up job man! Keep it up!

@Cognitoman 22 дня назад

If you want a job you need a major project you built

@eman0828 19 дней назад

The software development field is very over saturated with some many kids coming out of college with CS degrees. Every new kid on the block wants to do the same thing and the demand jut isn't there. You a better off going into Cyber Security or some other IT speciality.

@vasilevictordurlesteanu2435 24 дня назад

Thank you for your video and contribution

@saiootejreddy8701 24 дня назад

Thank you for the video Brian, could you please share us your resume format?

@johndevnoza4223 24 дня назад

wow! i have seen so many videos and im shocked, this one is way different. just love it. learnt many things. now i see things from different perspective. thanks again!

@brianjenney 23 дня назад

I really appreciate that. I want my kids to learn to code - I'm just not sold that the future is so grim as people online are convinced.

@xgamerzxz 8 дней назад

@walaaya2223 10 дней назад

Demand is low right now, hard to find job. Big surprise. It’s called a cycle and things recover. Now with the internet and the inherent fact that devs are active online, we are hearing the never ending cynicism and crying of it.

@jmbf4191 22 дня назад

So glad I clicked on this video. I thought it was another bullshit guide but this was really helpful.

@EmmanuelAgyapong-jn6ue 24 дня назад

Grat advice, would you reccomend making android apps as practice to apply for a job or is that career path dead? Thanks!

@Oathbetrayer 9 дней назад

I refuse to use LinkedIn. Way too easy to discriminate.

@Mohammad-tw7cq 23 дня назад

Great video! How do you feel about cover letters? Worth the time writing or no?

@airysm 14 дней назад

Never written one in a 4 year tech career

@cristian-florea-coding 22 дня назад

everyone goes on how they feel

@OmoruyiOmofonmwan 24 дня назад

I can second what you said about Danny Thompson. I followed his advice back in 2021, and I got a job in tech the next month after trying on my own for 2 years prior. I also got the opportunity to meet him in person 2 years ago and he was very very nice.

@slaybryn5504 22 дня назад

I m Kachin ethnic from Myanmar. I was 30 in 2023, 2033 would be 40 like you, So really give me advice for my Future CV,Thank you Sir

@centuraxaum5951 20 дней назад

With Gen AI, companies are not willing to pay you more than 120 or 150k Cheap labour anyways ready to do it for 65 to 70k.

@peterpetrichor 6 дней назад

Great video. I am, however, just sad that all of these things are necessary for a person to find an entry lvl Junior job, or an internship. Take me for example, I have a bachelors degree in Comp Sci, I am a masters student, I have finished courses for React, I am very well versed in javascript, very decent at CSS. I have about 3 projects, 2 front end, and 1 fullstack that i have done for myself. However, if I have not deployed my websites somewhere for someone to see or use or sold it to somoeone or did it for someone, or I dont even know, now suddenly I have very very difficult time finding a JUNIOR position job. How am I not qualified enough for a damn junior job?? Kinda sad man, that today you gotta do all these things to literaly even get started... P.S I also have finished a year of an internship, ONLY beacuse in my country we are guaranteed an internship at a random company which is payed by the state.

@germanshepherd6638 10 дней назад

I went from computer science to nursing. I miss coding so much 😢

@first001 9 дней назад

Was it the right choice?

@jonasbaine3538 7 дней назад

I’m a manual qa currently employed. Is it even worth learning to code to transition into a developer job? Seems experienced developers are struggling massively to land a job.

@powerHungryMOSFET 22 дня назад

so many self taught developers making competition hard ? I mean anybody can become software "engineer" 😄

@cbaesemanai 23 дня назад

hiring rates are currently below even the pandemic crash levels

@IDontReadReplies42069 24 дня назад

Okay so i know i can pass all of the techincal interviews. Im a very compitent coder and problem solver i just have difficulty getting motivation to finish projects. So instead od posting my github should i just statight up lie about everything and pretend i use a bhnch of stuff i dont? I could easily learn on the job

@matthewbradley4644 23 дня назад

Hey I'm trying to get a job too. Maybe instead of lying about everything you could use those problem solving and coding skills to come up with a week-long project and advertise it on github? to at least show the recruiter that you have skills.

@retrorewind6042 20 дней назад

No lol. Theyll ask you about that stuff on the interview

@neekodavinci 10 дней назад

Supply and demand thing bro. Fact of the matter is that you could have all of these things down pack and your chances will still be relatively small/almost the same just because there aren’t any jobs. You’re trying to instill hope in people with no experience and no cs background when the people with cs degrees and internships aren’t getting a shot. You wanna make a video on how to get a software developer job, make a video on how to network!!

@nolanpierce 26 дней назад

Hey thank you for this I was getting discouraged, I am a self taught developer I have the skills like i legit have reverse engineered all of windows kernel and I think after this i realized its not my skills as a developer, but my resume and the way I have been attacking the job hunting process was wrong, I will come back with results!

@w1l1 25 дней назад

"i reverse engineered the windows kernel" this sounds like you don't really know what you're doing and most companies could not care less about whether you know anything about the linux kernel, etc. useless knowledge for software engineering jobs

@user-gf7ss5je9h 24 дня назад

what does that even mean

@sg-ck2oh 24 дня назад

@@user-gf7ss5je9h it means he's ready

@Rust_Rust_Rust 24 дня назад

@@w1l1but he reverse engineered the windows kernel 😢

@w1l1 24 дня назад

@@Rust_Rust_Rust i love how none of us know what he meant

@bersi3306 23 дня назад

fake it until you make it. For me it worked.

@STELLARMIGHTY 5 дней назад

You just gotta lie - if you’re telling the truth don’t count on a call

@DEBO5 11 дней назад

Did this man just say “buy a url”? You can’t be serious. It’s called a domain name…

@first001 9 дней назад

Since the demand for SE is going down, they come here to shill a brighter picture of the market. Easiest and most lucrative thing to sell is hope.

@viruxer 24 дня назад

I'll give you another view on this. People are not getting jobs because bootcamps put out too many noobs that dont actually know how to do anything useful. Companies took a chance and got screwed. People coming with CS degree: same deal. Now only the ACTUAL developers get jobs. I forced for the removal of 4 people from past teams just last year.

@jersefrenzer1265 24 дня назад

Where should someone start then? Not trying to be coy or play devil's advocate - just want to know where to start working to not waste time and/or money.

@IDontReadReplies42069 24 дня назад

@jersefrenzer1265 google youtube reddit and discord is where you start, then eventually you just get good enough at programming to build things by yourself. Don't try to get into tech in a certain time frame. You need to slowly build up the skills

@lucasae4140 24 дня назад

@@jersefrenzer1265 He's just saying not to be a poor performer. Bootcamp grads? A lot of them are just tutorial followers that can't perform when the lights are on them or when they are required to create something that isn't already created on a tutorial somewhere. CS grads? Some of them just went through the motions. They may understand some complex concepts, but they didn't take enough initiative in school to cement their knowledge and are struggling from similar things the bootcamp noob is struggling with. These 2 sets of people lied their way into companies during the gold rush, they burned the company's cash, and now companies are more vigilant on who gets in the club. Be passionate. READ THE DOCS. Keep pushing the needle forward. Thats all you have to do.

@nested9301 24 дня назад

Good point i agree

@Hobby4health 23 дня назад

Only thing that matters is who you know.

@buzzintrippin 23 дня назад

Why don’t you just make your own software and sell it. If you are worthy enough for a job you can make good products. I never got this excuse of “oh I can’t get hired.” Adapt and overcome. There’s a solution to every problem and whining that you can’t find a job on the internet won’t do anything.

@mrlectus 23 дня назад

Not everyone is an entrepreneur

@kevinurielfonseca 22 дня назад

It is not that easy. Ive tried believe me. Right now im trying to learn game development because that seems to the only thing making money nowadays

@AngelGiurov 22 дня назад

How are you going to pay the bills in the meantime ?

@stephenmontague6930 19 дней назад

Maybe, but most of the software people use day to day took groups of skilled developers months or years to build and keep working. Just building and selling your own software is like building and selling your own car or plane, with a guarantee to maintain it for some time - possible, sure, but... not for all of us.