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845: Are companies hiring? State of the dev job market with Taylor Desseyn

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes talk with Taylor Desseyn about the shifting developer job market. Taylor shares practical tips for standing out, building genuine connections, and finding opportunities in a competitive hiring landscape.

Show Notes

  • 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
  • 01:38 Meet Taylor Desseyn
  • 03:51 Is the dev job market as bad as it seems?
  • 06:47 How to stand out when applying for a dev job?
  • 11:03 Who is getting hired?
  • 14:16 What tech/languages are companies hiring for right now?
  • 16:37 Is there less work?
  • 20:10 The small things that get you hired
  • 24:19 What to do when you get laid off
  • 27:42 Brought to you by Sentry.io
  • 28:07 How to make yourself more appealing to employers
  • 32:39 Networking tips and tricks
  • 39:01 Remote work and office return trends
  • 40:58 Why you should negotiate carefully
  • 43:38 What’s the most important thing right now for getting hired?
  • 45:48 Should devs understand stakeholders and business goals?
  • 46:42 Creating a good resume
  • 52:00 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax. Today we have an episode for you on what does the job market look like for software developers, for JavaScript developers, for people building for the web.

0:11.7

We have a guest coming back on Taylor Desson who came on probably about just over a year ago, probably 14 months ago by the time you're watching this.

0:21.3

Has it been that long now at this point?

0:22.8

Yeah. It feels like yesterday. That is terrifying. Yeah. No kidding, right?

0:27.8

And like, back then we asked you, like, like, why a recruiter's so awful and like, like, what's going on here?

0:33.0

Yeah.

0:33.4

And we thought, like, let's get them back on just to talk about what does a job market look like right now and, and like, what's working right now, especially because like all the AI stuff in the past year has really blown up. So yeah, welcome, Taylor. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, absolutely, guys. Again, thank you for having me. It just means so much. Again, I always say this as a recruiter, I just feel, you know, I'm like,

0:54.9

man, just blessed to be here, right? Hanging out with you guys and especially because I know

0:58.6

most of those are terrible. I know. I know. Grateful. Very grateful. You're lucky.

1:04.0

Best, best believe it. It's actually funny, though, because the like, the attitude towards

1:10.2

recruiters in like the heyday of boot camp grads making 300 grand out the gate as I feel like it's changed because the the job market has sort of turned in the last little bit and maybe has turned back.

1:24.2

We don't know.

1:24.8

But that's what we have you here to talk about.

1:27.1

Oh, good. I'm glad. I'm glad it's not like the latest Versal framework or something like that.

1:30.7

Oh, yeah. Whatever. Let's start out of script. No, I'm just kidding.

1:32.8

Give us your thoughts on server components. Yeah. I am for them.

1:37.4

Give us the intro of who you are and what you do. Yeah, absolutely. So my name is Taylor Destin. I've been in the talent engineering space now for 13 years.

1:48.0

I have been recruiting engineers since dot net web forms was hot boys.

1:53.0

So like literally like I remember recruiting and they were like, we need dotnet web forms.

1:58.0

I was like, what's a web form?

2:00.0

And then like I remember when dot net NVC came out and like's a web form? And then like, I remember when dot net NBC came out

2:02.4

and like that was all the rage.

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