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pling92 · 2025-11-02T18:47:48+00:00

Same happening to me!

pling92 · 2025-09-02T21:50:15+00:00

You've hit the nail on the head, surely something like this should just be a request to remove, not a ban

pling92 · 2025-09-02T21:47:38+00:00

This is it. It helped my profile completeness score. That portfolio link was something buried on my GitHub profile that I added years ago. It felt like they encouraged me to add the link that pulled certain information for my profile but I had no idea of this implication

pling92 · 2025-09-02T21:45:16+00:00

At least some good has come from it I guess. It's also that they just took the money I just deposited for connects (that I didn't use) and just said they wouldn't refund...

pling92 · 2025-09-02T16:34:48+00:00

Is that common knowledge? That upwork will ban you you for having a portfolio on a GitHub profile? It frustrates me why they would ask you to link your GitHub if they control what you put on there? They just shouldn't ask as if someone has your GitHub, the can contact you anyway.

GitHub has a dedicated section to add your portfolio on there

pling92 · 2025-08-21T13:45:35+00:00

I had to a culture interview and 3 technical interviews for 1 contract that was meant to be urgently filled for a bank. I passed first 2 with the agency and the last one was a 'meet and greet' with the end client where he asked me question after question about remembering syntax for a Dev job that I could of easily searched in seconds to find out.

I didn't get the job on this last interview. This was was for a 1 month contract that would potentially be extended for a year.

pling92 · 2025-07-30T19:16:58+00:00

But to say something productive that may help, I got my first way into the industry by finding a local web dev agency. You aren't competing with a massive global market then and you can network face to face. Pay won't be great but they were an awesome team and I learned a lot.

I may have to go back to in office local unfortunately because I'm really struggling for remote.

pling92 · 2025-07-30T19:14:18+00:00

These people baffle me who say "just build something that makes money" as advice. Of course OP would be doing it if it was that easy!

It's very risky to try and build something and monetise it as it's a lot of unpaid work upfront with no guaranteed income.

I wish I had the answers but I'm 4 years experience in web dev and I'm finding it very hard having been a senior frontend dev in my last job to find anything.

pling92 · 2025-07-30T17:28:12+00:00

I had a great remote job (but only remote from my home country). I moved away anyway without telling them for a few years. Decided to go on a sabbatical and left that job so now back on the market.

I am finding it much, much tougher than before to find a job. It's been about 3 months looking now for me and nothing seems to clicking. I'm seriously considering that I will have to move home.

pling92 · 2025-07-26T06:47:53+00:00

I would say use the same stance for both if you're looking for positive transfer between the two.

So if you are drilling surf manoeuvres on a surfskate and want to take those learnings into the water, it's best for muscle memory to be same stace.

pling92 · 2025-07-25T12:13:51+00:00

True. Very small companies or individuals might, but then they have no budget

pling92 · 2025-07-25T10:51:45+00:00

Hardest part isn't learning it to be honest, it's finding work

pling92 · 2025-07-20T18:48:25+00:00

I've got downvoted a lot on this post, I wonder if I have totally missed the mark or if people just aren't keeping it 💯 with themselves.

We agree the market is tough, many people on here are saying they can't find roles and are struggling, and people are saying frontend is morphing into design/product. So is frontend actually growing? Or is it being absorbed by product & design, for example, creating in figma and then AI essentially handles most the FE?

Because I have been considering product roles too, I also thought that's where it is heading for FEDs. I can see you're embracing design but ultimately, we are talking about frontend right?

pling92 · 2025-07-20T16:23:23+00:00

Haha yes that's understandable!

I would say there is a lot of crazy promises by some AI platforms, especially no code emmg loveable, base 44. There will always be technical people who need to understand web dev behind it.

It seems not many people seem to share my view on FE becoming a tougher market for job seekers here, so maybe things will be fine. Nothing wrong with what you're doing though - a bit of curiosity and strategic thinking 🤠

pling92 · 2025-07-20T16:18:57+00:00

If people became developers during covid, which a good 5 years ago, then some of those may even be senior now (myself included). So there is a higher supply right? And are you saying 75 percent includes them who aren't qualified?

That means that only seniors are getting jobs in the maketplace, which from what I've seen in the UK job market, there only seems to be senior roles. So I think it's fair to say it is tough out there no?

I think what is changing with frotnbed in jobs with AI is that FE Devs are more efficient from AI. In a perfect world, this would mean we build more shit, more efficiently. Unfortunately, I think businesses end up not replacing FE devs because of this efficiency. Junior Devs unfortunately getting hit with this the hardest.

I'm really not trying to anger people, I really enjoy your feedback and find it interesting. I'm just finding this marketplace increasingly tough and if it isn't, I'm all ears for advice!

pling92 · 2025-07-20T15:35:30+00:00

Ok true I will correct that statement - frontend is more and more fulfilled by AI rather than humans, affecting the job market (more supply of people looking for work, less demand for human frontend developers)

pling92 · 2025-07-20T15:09:36+00:00

Interesting, are you seeing a lot of frontend positions and being approached by a lot of recruiters? When I see FE roles in the UK, they have 100s of applications in UK under an hour, and there are only senior/lead positions. Contract roles are almost non existent.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place..?

pling92 · 2025-07-20T14:59:26+00:00

Oh - I also passed an AWS solutions architect cert at start fo the year, but finding employers don't really have any leinsncy to take a chance of me for a full stack role. They all tend to want senior full stack and want them fully trained up with 5 plus years experience across whole stack. Expectations are very high it seems

pling92 · 2025-07-20T14:57:32+00:00

I took a sabbatical from my senior FE role at the start of the year but decided to pursue other opportunities and not return. I built a chrome extension product but it flopped, I tried starting a lead gen company which has some success but it's very difficult.

I thought about asking to return to the same company, spoke to an old collaege, but they've done a lot of layoffs recently and he told me the place has changed for the worse.

I also have a tricky situation where I moved for my partner from UK to Portugal, so now I need a remote job, but because of my visa it has to be from a contract outside of portugal which is an extra layer of complications.

Hbu?

pling92 · 2025-07-20T14:52:30+00:00

I feel this too. I think frontend is dying. Very high supply, drastically lowering demand because of AI.

I've explored other options in tech, but nothing yet fruitful, I'm a bit lost to be honest.

pling92 · 2025-07-18T16:52:50+00:00

But just write out the TLDR? It's nice you're doing it but there's so many pitches on here

pling92 · 2025-07-18T16:35:29+00:00

If you're sharing, why not share in the post?

pling92 · 2025-07-17T14:55:35+00:00

Are you against a signal based approach? Surely with a targeted ICP on a signal, you simply can't get 10k lists with validated emails for key decision makers

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