"Thanks but no thanks", well rejection hurts especially when you know at your core you could do the job. There is likely a lot of chance involved given that any position is being hit with hundreds of resumes, selection on a specific skill or some tangible feature of the applicant.
I have been somewhat lucky in that I have had one interview in the last 6 weeks. I thought I did fairly well with the remote interviews until the final in-person interview. I needed more preparation and a better travel plan as I was super tired by the time I started the interviews. Lessons learned I hope and I continue my learning. I still feel confident that I could have done the role and been good in the position.
I probably need to work on the cover letters and tighten them up with better focus on the position.
Resume still feels like it is missing something or just not yet refined.
There is maybe that I am looking at mid-level positions and I am probably being viewed as a senior engineer. But really I have broad depth of experience (cloud, AWS, devops) but what I consider senior skills isn't really critical to most employers which is GemFire and Concourse CI both of which are niche in data and CI/CD tools.
I continue to be open as I am at heart a generalist software engineer and so I look to jump in, learn fast and solve problems, deliver solutions. Be the role software engineer, devops or technical support, I enjoy and love it all.
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