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Tech jobs are drying up if you're a JavaScript/React codemonkey whose sum total experience amounts to a boot camp and a fun sample project.


I'm a full stack dev with over a decade of regular web app development roles and I can't even get a phone screen right now. I've been applying for months.


I have gone through 10 final rounds… I feel there are so many candidates that small things are getting called into question. I’ve gotten dinged for being too verbose, for being too terse, for being nervous, for having to debug, for not debugging enough… I just had one where I got knocked for having the right time complexity, but using two more methods than needed.




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