Frontend Developer Serhiy Belyakov talked about how he is looking for a job in 2025, and why it is now a task with an asterisk. Aitov residents are actively sharing their thoughts on this matter.
Frontend Developer Serhiy Belyakov talked about how he is looking for a job in 2025, and why it is now a task with an asterisk. Aitov residents are actively sharing their thoughts on this matter.
«Finding a job in 2025 is a completely different reality, even for experienced specialists. For example, a few days ago I applied for a front-end specialist vacancy at DOU. My skills fully met the requirements, and the vacancy was fresh as a hot cake. After the recruiter made some clarifications, I received an answer that „the candidate pool is already too large.“ That is, in this case, even with super skills, there was no opportunity to pass an interview,» he said .
The developer attached a screenshot of the correspondence with the recruiter, from whom he received a response that it was not possible to process his resume.
Serhiy wonders: is this the same situation in front-end development or is it the same in other areas? He is ready to continue to improve his skills and gradually reduce his expected salary.
Under the specialist’s post are dozens of comments from members of the IT community.
«It’s the same in mobile development. Well, they don’t write that the pool is too large, but just a standard excuse or ignore,» notes Android & KMP software enginee Oleksiy S. He said that over the past few months he has applied for a bunch of vacancies all over Europe. «70% of cases are completely ignored. There was one interview. And several short ones with recruiters. The highest percentage of responses is in the Czech Republic. But most don’t want to work through an individual entrepreneur. Although he is an individual entrepreneur from Slovakia. What other problems are there? You often have to go to the office. At least a hybrid. Sometimes if you are remote, you still have to be in the country of residence. They write about this directly. Not everyone wants to work with an individual entrepreneur, even if it is an individual entrepreneur from the EU. Knowledge of the local language is often required.
After that, there are quite a few vacancies left. Of course, if, for example, you live in Germany in Berlin and know German, then there are many more options. In addition, now you can be a refugee with the right to work. Previously, a special visa was required,» said Oleksiy.
Oleg Frolov, Senior Frontend Developer, advises «going to the foreign market, learning Angular or Vue, if your stack is on React, learning React Native and trying to go into mobile, or Node JS and going into full stack.» «Going into a narrowly focused direction like Crypto, and learning the web3 library. Or it will be more persistent, if you see a vacancy on DOU or Djinni — are you looking for this company on LinkedIn? and knocking on all managers and recruiters,» he advises. According to Frolov, the only thing that matters is how you adapt to the new market and what ways you find to stand out among your competitors.
«If a vacancy comes, you have 5-10 minutes. If you don’t have time, it’s the end. Previously, there were 30-60 minutes of time. There was personal experience, but a lot of time passed and it became even worse. This is the first thing,» notes Manual Quality Assurance Engineer Morris-Vseslav Shostak.
Secondly, according to him, the Senior Manual QA vacancy is $1,000 greenbacks, and this is from a leading company on the Ukrainian market. «It is clear that they still have to take half from the specialist, but this is for hay. Today I saw (without company names). But the median on DOU and Djinni is holding steady. It is not known for how long? There is a constant downward trend,» Shostak noted.
Third, notes aytivecb, there will be a Pokemon with 100 years of experience, with all the knowledge, who will agree. «Dumping in all its glory and self-promotion of its own kind. At first it was only for QA, now it is smoothly moving to DEVs,» he says.
Fourth, the hypotheses and theories highlighted 3-4 months ago are coming true in connection with points 2 and 3, the tester is convinced. «So in conclusion, if this continues in the future, in a few years, salaries will be at the level of 500-700 green for Senior QA and 1500-2000 for Senior DEV. So, good luck with your search and fewer green circles. Because there are very, very many of them on the line now,» Shostak noted.
«Searching for a job is also work. Whoever comes first will be considered. It’s been like this for a long time,» writes Yaroslav Piskunov, Front-end developer.
