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by lostdog 547 days ago
Your resume looks fine, and you're getting to interviews.

Why have you been rejected from 20 phone screens and 10 interviews? Can you tell whether you are meeting the technical bar? If not, maybe you are missing something about how you present yourself in interviews.

As for suggestions, make a list of a dozen people you've worked with in the past who enjoyed working with you. Reach out to them and ask if their company is hiring (and don't bring up how desperate you are).

Overall though, there's something you're not telling us, because there's something you're not seeing. The absolute best thing to do is too get a friend to do a mock interview, to try to uncover what keeps going wrong.

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The mock interview idea is good, that's not something I've tried. Thanks!
Another idea you can try in addition to mock interviews is tell chat gpt to give brutal and honest feedback and have it verbally ask software engineering questions. You can also have it ask specific question categories you can expect, like working with ambiguity, conflict, etc.

This will give you extra practice and the feedback is pretty useful in my opinion!