[travelback]

> as someone who wasn’t in this field in 2008, what was that period like for devs

It was bad...

- Interviews required an IQ test (litterally some IQ test, where had to recognize numeric and geometrical patterns).

- Had to pay airline ticket to go to an interview, was never re-reimbursed (because the person who worked on the position I interviewed, decided to come back .. .so the recruiting agency did not re-reimburse)

- 60K per-year jobs (US) , required a 2 day take-home-and-code test.

12+ years of C++ would get you 40$ per hour, 3 months contract.

a PHP job with 2 year experience, required computerized test with about 60 or so questions.

Most resumes you send would never receive a reply. Recruiters were just building up their databases, and posted, most-likely fake job opportunities.

stuff like that...