2+ YOE as DevOps, looking for Software Dev and DevOps-y roles since, say, February.

Not really looking, per se, but was listening and responding to head hunters and treating it as a learning experience and maybe some leverage to get a pay bump - I’m classed as a junior but run rings around the mid-career and seniors we’ve hired recently, who all make more than me.

Anyway, I had a ton of interviews (probably 15 or so), several next rounds (maybe 5?), but no actual offers and nothing that would make me move through about May, and then….everything just went radio silent.

I almost posted this week to ask if I was doing something wrong or the market was that hard right now.

Says who? I've been looking and applying like crazy and I've gotten nothing.

I've heard certain European countries are on the upswing towards tech sector recovery but I'm not seeing it in the USA yet. I'm not familiar with other geos.

Our midwest company just lost three large clients in one month and had to lay 10% of our workforce off, so we're not on the upswing yet.

Community sidebar says this is only for Canada, but since I'm seeing some USA comments, I'll throe mine in.

In the New England region, and was laid off with a bunch of others in February. It's a dead zone out there. I'm Senior software engineer, but just put out the word to my head hunters that I will take entry level contracts.

I'm going to have to find some work in some other career path, or I will start draining my retirement just to make rent. I can't even move to a cheeper town since I need income for anyone to be willing to lease me an apartment.

There is a glimmer of hope though, since I'm setting more activity and I do have an interview coming up. The last four or five I've had since February ended up with me being ghosted, so I have to assume interviews won't get me anywhere.

The worst part is knowing that most of the jobs listed don't really exist. They are just farming resumes. Several positions from march are still up in the form of reposts.