No feedback email either. Possibly just ghosted.

IDK how common this is, but there are stories of companies that make you work on real production code in the interview. Basically suckering you into free work before they give the position to the boss's cousin or something.

When I was applying for sound design and music job for video games, like 15 years ago, they regularly made me design 50+ sound effects and compose like 6 tracks just to never get back to me. One time, they even made me program a whole ass interactive car engine sound plugin.

And you don't want to hear about academic and arts call. "Please send us a 12 pages document with description, technical implementation data, a detailed realisation timeline, and 16 references of previous projects. Don't forget to pay the registration feeb and submit the document in 3 different language, so we can decide what project will get the 2000$ grant out the 127 we received. If you're lucky enough so that we read your project, you even might receive a generic rejection letter from us."

More like

• Send 157 CV's
• Somehow pass the AI gauntlet to get an HR screener
• Interview with someone else in HR that knows about development, lightly
• Interview with the hiring manager
• Interview again with the hiring manager, and their manager
• Interview again with an actual developer on the team / technical interview
• Get automated rejection email 2 months later

More like this most of the time

• Be me.
• Apply for job listing that requires Python experience.
• /home/tootsweet/python_projects/python_genius.py
• Called and invited to team interview.
• Arrive dressed like perfect corporate cog, leather binder in hand.
• "Do you know C#?"
• Listing never mentioned C#.
• Me: "No."
• "We're switching from Python to C#."
• Didn't get the job.

Later worked with former employees of $aforementioned_employer. They have a terrible habit of hiring in droves, only to lay off half their workforce every few years.

I dont even get rejection, there is just no reply from the other side. Where am I in this meme?

Rejected? My dude, there's no rejections, just the dead silence of being ignored.

After losing my job to outsourcing early last year and watching the space since then, I have given up on working as a software engineer. I'm currently looking for work at a grocery store or something. I'm simply not interested. I love programming and software in general, but have fallen totally out of love with that career.

I don't think I've ever used a cv

I guess OP never applied for a job outside of software engineering? Other people have their own chain of pointless assessment centers and interviews with everyone to get that sweet rejection at the end.

Fixed it

Send a CV
Never hear back
....success???

was devestated after receiving a rejection email right before my sixth round

Going through this right now.

Side note: what the hell kinda George Costanza level lies are you people telling to get hired in this market? 17 years of experience with AI? It's 17 years of experience with AI isn't it.

The Fix:

Send a CV with Java experience

HR asks about some old native JavaScript Shenanigans

Get rejected as CV is "obviously fake"

Repeat