I was only half-paying attention with this in the background until he started sounding sus so this first chunk is vague recollections:
2 years experience and got fired
Reason not mentioned
Was making 75k (pre-tax)
Last 6 months coasting on unemployment and allegedly applying for dev jobs with no success
Has not adjusted his spending down
Around 70'000 in student loans? Not sure I heard this right.
I think he mentioned a degree in Information Sciences and no certifications? Not sure I heard that right.
Massive doordash spending
Car loan near the end, didn't catch this one
Spending bigly on vapes (nicotine) 
Took out his retirement (10k) when he got fired? Apparently getting fired lets him avoid the fees for doing that?
Credit card debt
- 1000 a month just making his credit card payments?
$1700 rent utilities not included
- thinking about moving back home if he doesn't get a software engineering job before his lease runs out
He's doordashing Wendy's because it's a 10 minute drive and he doesn't want to do that
"I've been in debt since I was like 18 so..."
No friends, no relationship. "I have friends that live in Texas just not in Austin" 
"I'm not homeless yet so I gue-"
"I only get luck when I apply to software engineering with my specific tech stack" 
"It feels like I'm ummm I'm my dreams are dying is what it feels like"
"I feel like I'm getting consistent interviews"
- Thinks he's failing on the leetcode and stuff? Gets to the last couple rounds then never hears back?
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!codecels I'm out of touch with the job market, is it really bad enough someone can go 6 months of applying places with 2 years experience and not find something?
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Depends where, if you're good at what you do you'll have recruiters simping for you constantly and can get multiple offers within a ~month of interviewing while working your current job
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I've had some recruiter sending me increasingly plaintive emails the last couple weeks. At least 4 now. I've been ghosting him because his profile picture gave me the ick
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can't write basic code
bullshitter
too techy/no people skills
annoying
pay expectations too high
you got fired
your english sucks
your last job was easy. you didn't grow much and it shows
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I've seen people as moronic as this guy take 5+ years before they're not a net negative contributor.
Some codecels never reach the point where they're doing more good than harm. They just distract the people who do all the work from their tasks.
If he's truly applied to ~300 jobs and not got one, then he's most likely in the wrong career. I don't care how tight the job market is.
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Isn't 75k really low? I'd assume he might be bad at his job.
I'm out of touch with what new grads make though so I could be wrong.
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75k is very low if you are based in a tech hub city. But for random other places it is probably around average.
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Extremely really low for Austin. No idea what he was doing there making that. Indeed is saying 75k is the average salary for a junior dev in austin but I assume that's including the h1b slaves
https://www.indeed.com/career/entry-level-software-engineer/salaries/Austin--TX
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Depends where he's working, fulltime remote and boonies that's normal for a low level codemonkey
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It's really fricking bad rn, I got a job ATM but have been looking to hop for months now
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Darn, really? I'd been thinking about monkey-branching for a while but hadn't gotten further than tidying up the resume.
I don't want to do return to office office bullshit and if I stay much longer they're gonna make go back
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Based on my reading of Blind and my own casual job search (still employed but I don't really like it so I am looking for other fully remote options which are extremely competitive) that is a common experience right now.
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Yes.
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No.
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You can get hired at a startup after two weeks but they might go out of business in three. Also you have to be competent
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If you're just out of college or have little experience then yes the average time to find a decent (keyword decent aka not a job position where you're just a password reset monkey) will be around 6 months.
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