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That's a good ratio, especially when you were saying you could do 50 applications a day. I freaking love Indeed. I've gotten both tech jobs and side hustles from there. I'm not a huge fan of LinkedIn. I personally am of the camp that you should send out a generic resume since it lets you...

What do you define as a "life changing" amount of money, out of curiosity? I don't feel a super strong need to job hop right now because I feel that I'll have trouble beating my current salary unless I were to apply for senior engineering positions. $120K for 2 YOE is very good, but I do agree...

This. Applying to a new job is very exhausting. It took me about 80 applications to get my new job. Out of those 80 applications, I had 3 interviews offered, I just took one. I believe that's a good ratio, but still exhausting. Keeping your resume in date, practicing for interviews, and...

That’s a pretty fast job hopping schedule haha. Usually, I hear that you want to jump around once every two years. Do you do that to give yourself more options and power? What do you do when a company says “you have to accept this new offer within a few days?” If you wouldn’t mind sharing, I’d...

Awesome man! That's actually the exact tech stack I used at my old job. I'm always excited to go out lol, but at the same time the work has to come first ya know? Feel free to shoot me a DM anytime.

I believe the others are somewhere between 5-8 from what I've seen. I'm definitely willing to put in the hours, it's really no different than when I was moonlighting(working extra hours to get out of a bad financial situation.) I need to make sure that I do very good work and get my contract...

As for the bad code part, I can't comment on that yet because I'm too new to the company. I'm just coming up on 2 months. I do agree with you on the bad code though. One thing I really enjoy about this company so far, is that every time I try to upload a merge request, my code absolutely has to...

Typically you're wanted to just work one task at a time unless you are blocked. Jira is our tracking software. I have definitely reached out for peer programming sessions, I will actually be reaching out today to get my work reviewed lol.

I'm definitely going to need longer to get to this point. My first goal is to just hit 3 YOE, since that has good market value.

This is very true. If I am going in with the goal of increasing my finances, I definitely expect a lot of work. To get out of a rut, I worked 65 hours in the past by moonlighting on top of my day job. I don't need to moonlight anymore, but I can keep that same work ethic. I was still able to go...

Yeah, that is the main reason that it currently takes me a while. I'm not very familiar with the current tech stack to be honest. But, I've been doing Udemy courses so I'm hoping that that will get me up to speed. I also have been getting familiar with Cypress. We need more people on our...

I don't think any of the work at this job is beyond me, it's just going to take a very large amount of effort. You could argue that it's no different than when I had two jobs to accelerate my financial building, just a more efficient way to make money.

I have had to work extra hours to stay at the curve, for sure. But I think it's actually level of ability, now that I've reflected on it. I need to give a bit more context to this work situation. So when I applied to this job, it was requesting a mid-level engineer with 5 years of experience. I...

I agree with all of these statements. Essentially, my time management is going to have to be insane, i.e. living out of the calendar. In the future, it is possible to use my money(that I accumulate from working the job) to buy back my time so that I don't have to work quite as many hours. But...

What job were you doing if you don't mind me asking? I'm assuming that this was a salaried corporate job. I'm actually not opposed to working really long hours. Last year, I was consistently working 65-70 hour weeks on top of getting several certifications to get myself out of a financial jam...

I think I could have done a better job clarifying in the OP, and the work situation I'm in. We definitely do write unit tests. In JUnit and Mockito specifically. I'm familiar with JUnit, but not Mockito. Synopsis, I think it's just a factor of my skill level being slightly too low right now, due...

Yeah, it seems that in the short term, this is really just going to come down to time management and living out of my calendar. Like you said, over time my skills will increase. They'll increase by just naturally doing the job, and taking courses. This will allow me to get the same(or even...

Shoutout to @BPH for pointing out this issue. It’s finally happening, and I needed to make a thread to see if there is anything I could do. I’ve told this story over and over, but I’m a software engineer, and I recently got a new job that pays me $120,000 per year. This is definitely helping me...

This on the certifications. Companies love pieces of paper

I decided to take the extra time and go for the cert. Many companies place value on it, it seems. I'm also planning to start interviewing again 3 months before my contract expires just in case. I decided to get the AZ-900 because the test is very similar to AWS Cloud Practitioner, and I always...