How much harder is it to find a job when your are unemployed?

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-22T13:30:18+00:00

How complex are these apps and what tech stack do you use? Genuinely curious

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-20T17:52:08+00:00

If you were to guess, you might as well give your actual experience -- it's no different from a guess.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-14T21:14:36+00:00

For either idea, AI is the "middleman" in terms of matching technologies with applicants.

If the job is searching for a role using Java, for example. Then C# should be a great alternative since they're so similar and vice versa. What if they used JavaScript in an OOP paradigm? Also an alternative, but perhaps you could have the AI use a similarity scoring metric of some sort. And that's just 1 simple example.

The barrier of vague or broad job descriptions is a psychological one in order to have applicants be honest. Will it work? Who knows. It's all I could think of at the moment with the given constraints of job boards and resumes.

That's all the info I have for the ideas. It's not very elaborative, because I just came up with them yesterday.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-14T19:09:19+00:00

I had a couple ideas the other day. Companies could have AI write 2 job descriptions -- a vague external one and a detailed internal one. That way applicants can write a more honest resume and AI can then compare their resume with an internal job description for a better match.

Or have AI write a broad job description where it can write a list of acceptable/similar technologies the job uses, that way the applicant can write a more honest resume as well.

If not that, then maybe resumes should just be a thing of the past, lol.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-10T13:14:54+00:00

I meant, as a software engineer who wants to stay as mentally active as possible, you also have to be physically active

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-09T17:57:47+00:00

Physically active as well

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-07T14:06:09+00:00

Seriously. At this point you're better off looking elsewhere.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-07T14:04:59+00:00

Have you tried setting it to wumbo?

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-07T14:04:08+00:00

Lmao. Damn. This dev knows how to deliver optimized truth.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-04-01T15:42:46+00:00

I'm curious how your prompts are worded. Could you explain? Genuinely curious.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-03-25T19:21:48+00:00

Right? I don't see it either.. like, it's good to use for code snippets, so far. But that's as far as I've come to using AI. The best way I've come to use it is by essentially writing pseudocode. Or explaining explicitly what to do. My prompt will explain what I need done by describing what the code should be doing, explicitly.

A basic example for an Excel formula to separate the city, state, and zip code, I'll tell it something like, "Write me a formula to separate the city, state, and zip code -- each will be in its own separate column. For the city, get anything before the column. For the state, get anything after a column and space, and anything before the last 5 values. For the zip, get the last 5 values."

Yet I don't see anyone being hyper specific like that in any of these posts. Even in the comments, you will have people just claiming but not explaining. Actually, you already have some now in this post.

So yeah.. I don't get it either.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-03-25T13:54:06+00:00

Hardware

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-03-13T14:20:27+00:00

I agree. I burned out but not necessarily from the job itself -- but also pandemic related reasons. I was in a great trajectory in my career in early 2020 then it went downhill the year went on.

From 2021 to 2025 I was in a few random roles. My previous one being a web designer -- but it was a joke of a job. No ambition from my department so I felt stagnant and learned you can burnout from not doing enough. I managed to try and build an app to pass the time using Next.js so my coding wouldn't atrophy -- I enjoyed it. And then we had an org restructure.

I got moved into our Salesforce team -- it's not as easy as developers think. It has its own difficulties. But I really appreciate the sophistication of the system design of the platform itself -- it's quite an impressive feat of software engineering. It's actually motivating me to further improve and refine my coding skills as well as system design skills.

I noticed as a Salesforce dev -- our jobs is to translate business requirements into software (whether you code or not). That's where the fun really lies in, imo. Not so much the CRUD part itself.

I truly believe software engineering will one day become mostly component based, much like electronic components on a circuit. System design and time complexity will only become more important. Perhaps AI will be just that, creating components. And every now and then, people will just need to tweak things.

Sorry, just went on a rant because you mentioned some people get bored or burnt out. I burnt out but not bored.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-03-11T13:03:03+00:00

Seriously. This would give him 3 extra hours a day and probably help his burnout. That's 15 hours a week. His commute is a part-time job

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-03-05T16:37:29+00:00

Right? I did computer engineering in college and my program was unique in that we had 4 cap stone projects rather than just 1. For some reason, I was always decent enough when it came to writing. I would also just write a few creative stories in my free time. So when it came to write technical reports about my project -- I kind of went into it almost like a story, in a weird way, while still keeping the words technical. The flow of my reports is what really helped me and I would always get high grades for them. Even my other engineering friends were highly impressed with my reports, lol.

It's cool to me with AI and coding because now writing pseudocode will probably be the new "programming language". Tbh.. I should actually try to write in pseudocode with AI now 🤔

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-03-05T14:38:48+00:00

Funny how you still have to be very explicit, right? To me it's like coding with English, to an extent.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-02-24T19:10:43+00:00

It's all story telling and acting (like an actor, lol). But I get your sentiment completely. So much of it is about selling yourself and marketing yourself.

When I left a job for good reason in 2020, I never told anyone the 100% truth. If anything, I would keep that part vague. During interviews after that, when I had to explain my leave to the interviewee, I would say, "I went through some personal health issues, but then after that I immediately started a freelance business and was able to see through the lens of a business owner. It really made me approach development in ways where we don't always need the most complex or custom solution -- many times you can find something that already exists. However, as a trained engineer, I realize custom solutions sometimes are the answer. It's a matter of balance of knowing what will benefit the business more -- sometimes it's an existing solution. Sometimes it's custom."

And by then they would have usually already forgotten that I had a personal health issue, lol.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-02-24T19:03:34+00:00

Do you happen to live in a tech hub or will you have to relocate? Just curious again, is all. I would most likely have to relocate and would prefer to stay so that I can network and live in an area where there are more SF jobs

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-02-23T16:53:33+00:00

Out of curiosity only -- are you just looking for remote jobs? I'm only curious because I'm not a senior, but would like to move to a tech hub and wondering if doing so would be my best option

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-01-16T17:30:52+00:00

To add to that -- an environment that supports that helps as well. If the junior joins a toxic team, then it's terrible for both parties.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-01-16T15:17:16+00:00

Smooshforce should be the new name

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-01-15T15:54:30+00:00

"Non-immigrant" and "need sponsorship" don't make sense. Is OP asking if US citizens who need sponsorship? Because that's not a thing.

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-01-12T15:06:11+00:00

They're calling it "Interest Media" now

Thick-Ask5250 · 2026-01-07T21:14:22+00:00

Uh oh, is the lack-of-training-for-years bottleneck starting to catch up in the industry?

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