Hi all. I’m located in a fairly large city in the midwest of the US. I graduated with a CS degree in 2021. Shortly thereafter I got my first real software dev job primarily doing C# .NET. The pay was honestly kinda low, the benefits were bad, and I had an anomalously small amount of vacation time from what I can tell. Those factors, plus wanting to focus on other areas of my life made me decide to take a career break in June of 2023, after 18 months after that job.
Since April of 2024, I’ve been trying to get back into software dev, and it’s been going poorly. I’ve sent out dozens of applications, and only gotten a handful of interviews and exactly zero offers. Most recently, I was interviewed for an entry-level contract-to-hire position. I was ready to take an offer from them at a pay cut from what I was previously making just to get back in, but was rejected with the only feedback being that I “didn’t show enough enthusiasm” during the interview. As my “career break” grows longer and longer than I ever meant it to, I worry that my chances of getting back in are approaching zero. Am I cooked?
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r/cscareerquestions Hi all. I’m located in a fairly large city in the midwest of the US. I graduated with a CS degree in 2021. Shortly thereafter I got my first real software dev job primarily doing C# .NET. The pay was honestly kinda low, the benefits were bad, and I had an anomalously small amount of vacation time from what I can tell. Those factors, plus wanting to focus on other areas of my life made me decide to take a career break in June of 2023, after 18 months after that job. Since April of 2024, I’ve been trying to get back into software dev, and it’s been going poorly. I’ve sent out dozens of applications, and only gotten a handful of interviews and exactly zero offers. Most recently, I was interviewed for an entry-level contract-to-hire position. I was ready to take an offer from them at a pay cut from what I was previously making just to get back in, but was rejected with the only feedback being that I “didn’t show enough enthusiasm” during the interview. As my “career break” grows longer and longer than I ever meant it to, I worry that my chances of getting back in are approaching zero. Am I cooked? submitted by /u/prolegrammer [link] [comments]
Hi all. I’m located in a fairly large city in the midwest of the US. I graduated with a CS degree in 2021. Shortly thereafter I got my first real software dev job primarily doing C# .NET. The pay was honestly kinda low, the benefits were bad, and I had an anomalously small amount of vacation time from what I can tell. Those factors, plus wanting to focus on other areas of my life made me decide to take a career break in June of 2023, after 18 months after that job.
Since April of 2024, I’ve been trying to get back into software dev, and it’s been going poorly. I’ve sent out dozens of applications, and only gotten a handful of interviews and exactly zero offers. Most recently, I was interviewed for an entry-level contract-to-hire position. I was ready to take an offer from them at a pay cut from what I was previously making just to get back in, but was rejected with the only feedback being that I “didn’t show enough enthusiasm” during the interview. As my “career break” grows longer and longer than I ever meant it to, I worry that my chances of getting back in are approaching zero. Am I cooked?
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