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Discussion on: I switched careers to Software Engineering in my late 30s while nursing a newborn, Ask Me Anything!

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architect 🌹

how hard was is to find the second job?

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Arit Developer

Hello architect!

Actually I'm working in my first job as a Software Engineer.

I submitted close to 40 job applications between July 2018 and Dec 2018. Out of these, about 40% called me back for phone screens and/or coding tests. Out of those, 3 companies invited me for onsite interviews, one of which was for my current job. So my onsite interview rate was around 7.5% of the jobs I applied for. Sounds quite hard to me lol.

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