[WalterBright]

> What if there are no open positions on my experience and I have to pivot to another completely different tech stack that I studied in my spare time? What then?

I had some trouble finding a sw position after leaving mechanical engineering, but I went to the interview prepared to show I could do it, and it worked.

[FirmwareBurner]

But you still had to get an interview first, which is often the most difficult part. Not everyone is so lucky to get such a chance. What then? Go homeless or lie till you get an interview?

The funny thing is I'm not even a mechanical engineer, but a a CS engineer, just mostly experienced in a stack that's not used much anymore but it's not like I can't learn another stack, I just refuse to put up with discriminatory hiring practices that treat you as a checkbox list, and so I have to work around the employers'/recruiters' bullshit hiring practices.

[WalterBright]

When you're got a thousand resumes, it is not possible to interview them all. You'll pick the most promising handful.

[FirmwareBurner]

That's why you lie to make sure you get in the promising handful.

[WalterBright]

That's why there are leetcode interviews to detect the frauds.