Python Backend & AI Developer Igor Shkrob encountered several obstacles while searching for a job, which he decided to tell the LinkedIn community about.
Python Backend & AI Developer Igor Shkrob encountered several obstacles while searching for a job, which he decided to tell the LinkedIn community about.
«I’m currently looking for a job as a Python/AI developer and I’m constantly facing problems. They don’t hire me for a Junior position, even with Middle-level experience and skills. They refuse with the words: 'They preferred a more experienced candidate.'! I wonder who this is? A Senior for a Junior position?», he described the first problem.
The second challenge, according to the IT expert, is the requirement for an Upper-Intermediate level of English. «And this is at a time of active development of AI, where it is possible to translate everything you are told in real time and generate an answer,» the developer is indignant.
Igor believes that employers are currently making very high demands on each vacancy. «You have to have experience with several programming languages, in developing AI agents more than this direction exists in general, with FrontEnd, with test automation, and with DevOps setup,» he says.
The programmer asked the community to share how IT professionals overcome the obstacles described above. The comments are full of descriptions of various experiences.
Full-Stack Developer Iryna Kostromytska said that in order to get a job as an intern, she learned English to the Upper-Intermediate level, and during her training she immediately aimed to meet the requirements of the middle level. «During the internship, I had to complete a project in three months (user front and admin + back + database + front and back deployment + notification sending via AWS + front-end tests on Cypress and back-end on Jest). I did it in two months,» she said.
Oleksandr Viter, Senior Python Developer, believes that sooner or later employers will simply play along with these trends for a human orchestra, and eventually a person who knows front-end, back-end, DevOps, testing, marketing, sales, and finance will ask himself the obvious question: «If I can do EVERYTHING, then why am I working for someone instead of creating my own products?»
«Actually, I have the same question for people who know a lot and are looking for work — why don’t you team up with 1-3 similar people and create something of your own, instead of fruitlessly looking for a job and thinking that you are always lacking something (knowledge or skills)? In the past, in times of narrow specialization and the absence of AI, this was impossible, because people only understood their own narrow field, so the main task of the employer was to assemble a team of people with different skills so that they could make a product. But what is the role of the employer now, if people can already do a lot of things themselves? Of course, 90% of startups die, but still, if you get into the top 10%, you can earn as much as you never dreamed of in hiring. And with each „candidates must know this and that“ from the employer’s side, there is less and less sense for candidates to go to work for hiring,» the IT specialist notes.
Front end developer Artem Bohdan says: «There is a way out — f**k it in your resume.»
