| I’m going to say something that at first is going to sound really insulting. But please hear me out. If you’re just another enterprise CRUD developer like most of the 2.7 million developers in the US, there are literally thousands who can do the job good enough. When I worked and lived in Atlanta pre-Covid, I could throw my resume in the air and reach out to local recruiters I had worked with for years and have multiple offers within less than a month. This was for your standard Enterprise CRUD jobs. This was my life from 1996-2018. A remote job at AWS working in the Professional Services department (full time) consulting fell into my lap in 2020. I got Amazoned a couple of months ago. As a backup plan, I started spamming my resume on LinkedIn Easy Apply for bog standard C# CRUD jobs. I never do this. But I had time on my hands this time so why not? I applied for 70 jobs this way and most of my applications weren’t even looked at and my resume was only downloaded twice. LinkedIn shows you this. I heard crickets from doing this. I had 15 years of C# experience including 7 leading projects and 3 leading projects at AWS in the consulting department. Every job I applied to had 100s of applications. Before when I was looking I was only competing in the local market. Now I’m competing nationwide. From my prior network, most companies wanted hybrid or in office. Don’t cry for me. I had three interviews and two offers within the two weeks for full time consulting jobs that paid around 20% less than I was making in all at Amazon. But one was because of a referral for a mid size company as a “staff architect” and the other two interviews were interested because I was the third highest contributor to a popular complex open source “AWS Solution”. But, if you take away my AWS account, I turn back into your bog standard “enterprise dev” with above average soft skills Edit: I see the comment is dead now. But when I was “carrying Amazon’s water” I guess they were referring to a month ago - I had already been Amazoned then. Amazon was my 8th company in 27 years I’m now on my ninth. It was just another method to exchange labor for money. I’ve been consistent in my distrust of government power whether it was targeting Amazon, Apple or Google. |