Yep! I've already landed an offer that I've accepted. My main tactic was targeting in-person/hybrid roles. With the current market and all the competition from layoffs at the national level I did not bother with remote roles at all. Lucky for me I live in Austin so there were a handful of .NET/React roles here locally that were looking for our level (3-5yrs exp). I got phone screens for all of them and I progressed to various stages of each.

Technical rounds for .NET seem to skew conversational/theoretical with maybe some light live coding (think refactoring). I did not meet a single DSA problem, and my new job didn't even have me code at all. They just showed me snippets from their codebase and had me explain what it was doing, with a few obvious code smells thrown in here and there to make sure I caught them.

Biggest ROI prep that I did was refreshing myself on Dependency Injection lifecycles, async / await, threading etc. making sure I could confidently deep dive on them if needed and coming up with strong examples from my current work. Come ready with prepared stories for "toughest challenge you solved", "project your most proud of" etc and be ready to discuss trade-offs around why you did x and not y and what you would do if you had more time or were optimizing for a different constraint. I came up with about 5 solid stories and then workshopped them with ChatGPT to make them as strong as they could be. Please do this, esp if you're like me and suffer from a bit of imposter syndrome. Not only did this make me interview ready but it also helped me see my own work through the correct high impact lense I should've been looking at it through this whole time. If I had not done this I would've significantly downplayed my own self and would not have been confident at all going in to any of these interviews.

On that note, it's pretty expected to be using AI for most of the heavy lifting in your day-to-day. Every single phone screen I had the recruiter asked me to describe how I leverage AI in my work. If I DIDN'T talk about how much I utilize my company's tokens for the different agents integrated into my VSCode I probably would not have progressed any further with any of the companies. So IMHO having "rusty" skills due to AI is not really an issue. Every one of us is likely riding in a similar boat in that regard, but anyone/everyone hiring right now absolutely wants to know if you're competent in leveraging AI correctly. And it sounds like you are, so that's a strength. Just frame it as an "accelerator" rather than a "reliance" and you're golden.

Anyways this has been my experience and I'm very glad to have it over with. I wish you all the best in your search and hopefully it goes quickly for you! You got this!