u/Soft-Highlight-8470 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
If you don't mind me asking, what change would you say made them successful now vs 1 year ago? or is it more of it took a while for the opportunity to present itself.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hiring is picking up for mid level engineers. Disclosure: I'm co-founder of a mentorship platform for SWEs with 1+ YOE under their belt. We have seen 4 or so Meta offers in the past few weeks and many more interviewing. It's definitely not easy but if you have a legit 2+ YOE (like full time SWE job, not projects, not open source, etc...) then you should be getting interviews in a reasonable timeframe in this market. There are many more challenges in passing the interviews and with headcount, but the gears are turning.
That's not at all the case for new comp sci grads and new bootcamp grads (including Codesmith and Launch School and other programs that have these kind of "open source work experience" projects) and the market remains incredibly hard just to get interviews without lying about that experience. The exception being CS grads from top tier CS school - they have a lot of choice and I'm hoping that we see expanded new grad headcount in the new year, but we don't know yet if that will happen.