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Comment by steve_adams_86

16 hours ago

> the job market isn’t thaaaat tough to need to compromise

I’m finding it absolutely brutal. I’ve never encountered anything like it. I could be doing something wrong, though.

If you leave RSU-land there are tons of midsize companies, fully remote, filling headcount pretty quickly

Get a third party recruiter

It was brutal for me in that tier last year and before, but now its ridiculous

  • I feel like I'm hitting those midsize companies, and I'd love to be at one, but my applications get passed over like crazy.

    At the same time, RSU-land is interested in me, and I have active processes with Apple and Amazon. Yet, not to sound like I'm my own worst enemy, I don't know that I have what it takes to get in at those companies. I know I've got solid skills and valuable experience, but at the end of the day... I'm up against a ton of talented people who know how to play the game, you know?

    So strange to have huge companies reach out to me (I didn't even apply) and yet tiny places in my city or abroad and remote won't even give me a moment to pitch myself to them.