| It is difficult to diagnose this on a forum, but I'm going to suggest another angle. Unless there has been something radically change in your life, I'm going to suggest that you are simply having a run of "bad luck." 1. You have a good work history 2. You are in a field that is in demand 3. The unemployment rate is low not only in the bay area, but nationwide At least for me, "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb was a life changer. The main thought: when we get hit with chance (good or bad luck), we (as humans) tend to find some type of causality, when it was just randomness. With a large amount of readers for HN, somebody is going to get into a situation where something didn't click on multiple job interviews (even 20 interviews or more), and the negative outcomes were just bad luck Now I may be reading between the lines, but your post sounds a little panicked. Once you panic this rolls in the job search, and panicked humans have a tendency to regress in terms of our execution on job interviews. The interviewer starts to get the feeling that the person is desperate, and once somebody is desperate, you no longer get the feeling that the person that you are hiring is unique. This lowers the chance of getting a job. The key is convincing yourself that it is a numbers and networking game. Even on your time between jobs, keep networking using friends and social meetups. Then interview as much as possible, and tell everybody that your just looking for the right match on the right team. |