posted 3 months ago
I was laid off from my job in June as all the clients pretty much left the Americas to staff with off-shore including our local clients. I have had several interviews, but they've all been wasting my time that I could have been using for something more productive.
For example, I could be working up to 25% of my unemployment amount part time and I could be using the time to actually create relevant applications, but all my time is being spent preparing for interviews that the panel looks like they're not even listening, and then coming up with some stupid reason to reject me that's unrelated to the job or the interview. Instead, I'm learning about common interview questions as well as LeetCode practice for jobs I have no chance of getting in the first place.
For example, I was at an interview for a job I was told was 100% React by the ones setting it up, and then the rejection said they needed a Python Developer that knows how to use the Dash framework to generate simple class based components in React.
One interview they said they needed Spring Boot, and then after the interview they rejected me for not knowing Flutter which in the job description said nearly all Spring Boot with some Flutter at a later time, and then the rejection said they needed nearly all Flutter with a little Spring Boot.
Recently, a job that the recruiter was sure I'd probably get, I said in the interview that I've been doing most of my learning through practical use cases and not relying on Udemy and related methods. The rejection notes said that there wasn't enough experience because most of my experience was with Udemy, and they weren't even listening when I was talking about the client projects where I was using React and I never mentioned one Udemy course on React that I took.
I mean, I don't know really what direction to go. Should I just call off interviews all together or just take them but not prepare much as they're 99 out of 100 times not even going to listen if they don't have the perfect candidate regardless of offering nearly the lowest pay? I feel like they're just meeting interview quotas, but not planning on hiring anyone unless they are a superstar engineer worth half a million dollars willing to take under 6 figures.
