[py_or_dy]

> Sounds like a long rant about how you can't get a job in a thriving tech industry where salaries are actually going up by a lot.

You say it is thriving, I say it is not. So who is correct? Every job I applied for was django development with a remote team. Once I'd get rejected, I'd keep an eye on the company's linkedin page and see who got the position instead of me. In two cases it ended up being someone much more senior than I (like 10 years experience in pure django), and in 3 other cases it was someone with less than two years of experience and who recently graduated from a coding bootcamp (and I guarantee they are paid no where near $100k). And in about 10 other cases, the linkedin page has stayed the same, so not sure if they hired anyone at all or what. But I've only really been paying attention to the pages for about 15 different companies versus the 60 or so I interviewed for.

Edit: Oh and about the wage thing... forgot to mention for many of these smaller software shops they are now doing most of their hiring out of South America. Fullstack labs, consumer affairs, just to name a few but the list goes on.

[zeusk]

It is very much thriving. I started with internships at ~$40/hr in 2016, I will make $680k this year W2 (I code in C++ and Python). You should brush up on some recent tech stacks and move to Seattle or Bay Area if you're having trouble finding remote work.

[jwilber]

This experience is a massive far cry from anything I’ve seen.