It's me, or the current job market and interviewing are shit, anons?> Have >6 YOE> Leetcode, even for senior positions> System design with fictional scale while the software is handling like 10 customers> Give a straight forward and simple solution (either SQLite or Postgres)> Get told that it won't be scalable; you need queues and shit> MFW I made something work by using Google Sheets as a database> Another interview> Leetcode again> System design again, made something working with queues and shit> Get feedback that I'm not deep enough, which is fair as I'm a full stack who designed and launched systems end-to-end> MFW I feel like scalability isn't that hard but couldn't show it to people as I learned NixOS on my own and finished all SICP exercises (except for the last one, compiling higher-level code to Scheme)> MFW starting to doubt if I'm that good if I didn't handle "large scale"At least I'm landing interview sometimes, I don't know
yeah, 3yoe here, got replaced by a remote indian at my last jobbeen unemployed for over a year now, if I I wasn't living with my family I'd have blown my brains out long agoI think I'm going to stop looking for a job and just try to go back to school and get paid to do research. Until the job market gets better I just want to focus on not killing myself and making sure my fiancee doesn't leave me
>>106548584I'm kind of wondering if I should retrain in a blue collar role or just try to find a factory job or something. The people that run these companies act like they don't even want anyone to work for them, they hate hiring so much.
>>106548584it's all a jewish humiliation ritual. believe it or not you can go really far with sqlite3 or postgres, really the trade-offs come from deep problems like "high availability" and usually most people who think they are HA, really aren't.
>queuesunless you have a really specific fan-in, fan-out messaging architecture, queueing is purely retarded. software should be able to do any internal queue management or just use the database.
>>106548584I have a secret for you OP. It will score you a job fast.Work for less money.That's it, that's the whole secret.When they realize they can have an experienced senior dev for the price of a junior, they'll be lined up to hire you.
>>106548584what country?
>hear about how difficult interviews are>the few new hires I have seen over the last two years are named some variant of Rajeesh or Sameer>they suckhow are they passing these difficult interviews when all these other people can't?
>>106548584>please implement a solution to this exercise that scales well to x thousand users>ummm actually sweaty here's a solution that can only handle ten.>get rejectedretart
>>106548584> System design with fictional scale while the software is handling like 10 customers> Give a straight forward and simple solution (either SQLite or Postgres)> Get told that it won't be scalable; you need queues and shitI'm just a packet plumber and I know that Postgres can scale to pretty crazy heights.A lot of places seem to believe that they're just a year or two away from becoming the next Google so they waste time, money, and pass people like OP over because "muh scalability".
>>106550493Indian mafia.They hire their own
