问 HN:失业第五个月,仍然没有找到工作
1 分•作者: TylerJaacks•6 天前
我于 2022 年 12 月大学毕业。在我的前公司实习大约一年后,我被全职聘用,负责卫生与公众服务部(HHS)的联邦医疗保健合同。今年 8 月,在联邦政府取消了我所负责的所有合同后,我被解雇了,并且没有其他职位可供选择。我在该公司全职工作了将近三年才被解雇。
我已经申请工作将近五个月了,但一直没有成功。大多数时候,我甚至连面试的机会都没有。当我获得面试机会时,我在 Meta 已经进入了最后一轮,但没有收到 offer。同样的情况也发生在 Fanatics。在 IBM,我在编码评估后,第一次编程面试就失败了。我面试的是一个 C++ 职位,但经验有限。我还面试了三个本地职位,并且都进入了最后一轮。
我收到的唯一反馈来自最近的两次面试。对于 A 公司,他们说我在面试期间的编程项目中表现不佳,因为我专注于新的 Java 特性。然而,他们也说了积极的评价。他们认为我与公司的文化契合度很好,并且具备技术技能,但我缺乏 DevOps 方面的经验,我认为这并不在职位描述中,而且我的速度相对较慢。对于 B 公司,他们说:“我们认为您的技能组合并不是最适合我们未来几个月的主要重点——基础开发任务。”
我在前雇主的经验主要集中在传统系统上,这在政府合同中很常见。我们使用 AWS 构建整个系统:ECS、RDS(Oracle SQL)、DynamoDB、API Gateway、Lambda 和 S3。但所有后端代码,也就是我全栈工作的地方,都使用 Java 8,后来升级到 Java 21,SpringMVC(没有 Spring Boot),Apache Tomcat,Apache Maven,SVN 和 Git。前端由加载 XML 文件的 JSP 组成,使用原生 JS、Bootstrap 和 jQuery,以及 CSS 和 HTML。
似乎很多公司都在寻找响应式网站,而我没有这方面的经验,或者使用 Spring Boot 和更现代的技术栈。我几乎没有获得面试机会,而且整个流程可能需要一个月或更长时间,最终却以被拒绝告终。我知道现在的就业市场非常困难,但这对我造成了严重的精神打击。我本身就有残疾和精神健康问题,我感觉我的生活和职业生涯正在崩溃。我没有“普通”非技术岗位的技能,我不知道该怎么办。我知道显而易见的建议是改进我的简历和面试技巧,但在某种程度上,即使获得面试机会也感觉完全是随机的,面试本身也是如此。
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I graduated university in December 2022. After interning at my former company for about a year, I was hired full-time, working on federal healthcare contracts for the HHS. In August of this year, I was laid off after the federal government canceled all the contracts I was working on, and there were no other positions available for me. I had been at the company full-time for almost three years before being laid off.<p>I have been applying for jobs for almost five months now, and I have had no success. Most of the time, I do not even get interviews. When I do get interviews, I have reached the final round at Meta but did not get an offer. The same happened with Fanatics. At IBM, I failed the first programming interview after the coding assessment. I was interviewing for a C++ role but had limited experience. I have also interviewed for three local roles and made it to the final round in all of them.<p>The only feedback I have received came from my two most recent interviews. For Company A, they said I did not perform well in the programming project during the interview because I focused on new Java features. However, they also said positive things. They thought I had the right culture fit and technical skill, but I lacked experience in DevOps, which I believe was not part of the job description, and I was relatively slow. For Company B, they said, "We do not think your skillset is the best fit for the fundamental development tasks that will be our primary focus in the months ahead."<p>My experience at my former employer was mainly with legacy systems, which is typical for government contracts. We used AWS for the entire system: ECS, RDS (Oracle SQL), DynamoDB, API Gateway, Lambda, and S3. But all the backend code, where I worked full-stack, was in Java 8, later upgraded to Java 21, SpringMVC (no Spring Boot), Apache Tomcat, Apache Maven, SVN, and Git. The frontend consisted of JSPs that loaded XML files with vanilla JS, Bootstrap, and jQuery, along with CSS and HTML.<p>It seems many companies are looking for reactive websites, which I have no experience with, or Spring Boot and more modern tech stacks. I am getting almost no interviews, and the process can take a month or more just to end in rejection. I know the job market is very difficult right now, but this is taking a serious mental toll on me. I already have disabilities and mental health issues, and I feel like my life and career are falling apart. I do not have skills for "normal" non-tech roles, and I do not know what to do. I know the obvious advice is to improve my resume and interviewing skills, but at some point, even getting an interview feels completely random, and the same goes for the interviews themselves.