Keynote Panel: Getting Hired
summary
Hiring tightens in the pandemic: entry-level posts sometimes ask for five years of experience and companies increasingly hesitate to invest in juniors, while mid/senior engineers get poached at rates like 50% above average salary. Practical fixes: ramp through crawl-walk-run and buddy system, build resume currency with open source contributions, join peer teams to practice interviews and fail safely, pick one stack and demonstrate learning velocity rather than checklist mastery, and prioritize belonging to reduce imposter anxiety.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome and panel intro
- 1:02Current hiring challenges
- 4:14Hiring senior vs junior devs
- 7:26Skills anxiety in early careers
- 10:53Learning how to learn
- 12:37Peer mentorship in Vets Who Code
- 15:43Importance of representation
- 19:16Bringing whole selves to work
- 23:07Open source on resumes
- 24:51Failing gracefully in tech
- 28:22Flaws in technical interviews
- 29:26Industry progress and hope
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