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Is anyone else feeling no interest in applying for jobs anymore (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got laid off in March as a software engineer 2 and since then I've hardly applied to many jobs, of the few I've applied to I got a handful of interviews which I couldn't even clear the first round of Leetcode test. I can barely solve 1 or 2 LC questions a day, and I've tried to read system design for a while but can't find any interest in it. Even if I solve the interview questions we'll I've been rejected, everything feels so pointless. I just want to play video games and watch movies till these darks days pass and there's another boon in tech hiring. But with AI it feels like many jobs won't ever come back. Should I consider changing careers or moving to another country. I don't think I have any real passion or talent for programming, but it's the only skill I have right now. I don't know what level of panic I should be feeling right now. I don't have any close friends or supportive family to talk to about any of this.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm right there with you, mate. I graduated just in time for the whole industry to be about "AI". I don't want to work on AI. I hate AI. I also don't feel qualified for the jobs I'm applying for. Sure, I did the degree, but I don't feel like I learnt anything in it well enough to call myself qualified.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah it's a terrible time to graduate, I'm sorry you have to go through this shit, the industry was already stacked against new grads because companies don't want to put any time, money or effort towards training new grads and now they just want people with years of experience in their specific stack and they think AI will do most of the coding so they don't need as many engineers or something, I hate AI as well, I avoided lectures on it when I was studying cause I didn't think I'd ever be interested in pursuing it, but here we are