Dr. Derek Austin 🥳
1 min readJul 5, 2024

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Hey Alex! It's hard to say. The last time I was looking for a staff-level frontend engineering job, I applied to well over 1,000 positions over the course of 6 months. I was invited to participate in about 10 phone screens or take-homes, and I received 0 offers.

I've found many companies have deeply broken processes involving multiple 4+ hour take-homes and rounds of interviewing or "8-hour" take-homes that take 16+ hours to complete.

So of the 10 opportunities I had to interview, half were for teams so understaffed or underpaid I wouldn't consider it l, and the other half required way more time commitment than I could participate with while working full-time.

The last time I got an offer before that, I was "1 of 1" (I got an offer for the job I wanted after 2 interviews), but I declined it as the company wanted to pay me my same 40-hour-a-week salary to work 45 hours a week on a 6-month contract without any equity compensation.

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Dr. Derek Austin 🥳
Dr. Derek Austin 🥳

Written by Dr. Derek Austin 🥳

Hi, I'm Doctor Derek! I've been a professional web developer since 2005, and I love writing about programming with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js & Git.

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