I'm sorry for you and everyone else going through this, its madness; besides this you also need to deal with fake jobs, malware in take-home challenges, a pile of incoming messages selling you the "best" AI job search tool, etc.
I'm aware how bad it fills to put your heart on filling an application for the perfect role just to get nothing back out of it.
Unfortunately, I can't offer a solution but want to share that you must keep going, this process must eventually pay off.
I'd encourage you to leverage your connections, reach out to any past manager/coworker, reach out to friends; referrals is the simplest way to land an interview.
Besides this, I'd suggest to try going over the monthly "Who wants to be hired?" posts, after referrals, that's how I landed most interviews.
Not a failure to me. It is the most exciting piece of computer hardware to program apps for that I've purchased in the last decade. I understand why others consider it a failure though, and wonder how it would have performed if it weren't so expensive.
My hope was that it was going to pave the way for apple to release a pair of glasses that had some of the functionality of the Vision Pro. I'm guessing this is still one of their goals, however Meta and even SnapChat beat them to it.
The Vision Pro was the Mac 128K of its class of device. The original 1984 Macintosh was, at its release, anemically underpowered due to its low and unexpandable RAM, not to mention comically expensive for what you got; but it showed the potential of where such a system could go. I think that the Vision Pro hasn't found product-market fit on its own but it points the way to a brighter future for VR and for Apple's role in that space.
A while ago I checked the 2nd hand market where I live but this headset is barely listed. The few ones are expensive-enough that I'd rather purchase a new one.
Besides those I have also been getting the fake jobs about a "confidential search" they are working on (yes, from gmail), the jobs that ask you to complete a coding challenge (with malware inside), the people asking me to be their face to attend meetings while they develop the work, etc.
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I believe in using the right tool for each task. Strong infrastructure background (AWS, cloud-native, distributed systems).
I've attempted to bootstrap products myself so I understand what it takes beyond writing code. I take full ownership end to end, I don't wait to be told what needs solving.
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My whole team got laid off recently and I have been in constant communication with them, I also have multiple friends who got laid off this year who shared the pain it has been to get a new role,
Market seems better than the last few years but it still does not feels right to me,
We have got multiple people reaching out but the majority of the roles are in-office or hybrid while I work fully remotely.
I posted on LinkedIn, with the help from friends I got quite a lot of visibility (most viral post I have ever had) but still, out of the ~10 recruiters that reached out, only 2 are remote roles, I also got a few offers to work for equity only.
I posted on the monthly "Who's wants to be hired?" thread, it has lead to a few offers to work for equity only + shady people that want me to attend calls and "delegate" the work to them while splitting the revenue.
I also got the people reaching out with promising offers with the intention of getting me to run their malware hidden in coding challenges + recruiters that magically have a role that hasn't been published yet but they use a gmail address, these ones just keep requesting more and more info like an Executive Summary.
I have also got a few referrals and even for these, they are moving slowly.
To put it in perspective, years before I'd easily get 10 recruiters in my inbox per week.
Market seems tough and I can't imagine what junior people are passing through while trying to get a job.
On another topic, I shall reconsider using bus over train for my trips.
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