After 4 years, I have lost my job. Now, I am being rejected without a reply (even on weekends!) to positions where I have all of the skills they asked for.
I have >10y experience with POSIX, C, C++, Wasm, MCUs and also willing to learn Go/Rust/Zig... I also contribute to many FOSS projects like @speed_dreams_official , @dino , @dillo and slcl.
I hope the fediverse (and not AI) can help me.
Remote/hybrid preferred
CV: http://slcl.privatedns.org/public/11f10f9b57b18eef5ad03e1f76136ab1
@xavi92 @speed_dreams_official @dino @dillo
Hang in there. Keep prospecting, networking, and applying. It's a perplexing job market for sure. Your skills, experience, and you are valuable.
@xavi92 good luck with your job hunt!
Greetings from Mont-Roig.
@xavi92 Jobs often land on the Open Robotics Discourse, if you're interested in that sort of thing: https://discourse.openrobotics.org/c/jobs/15
The community is pretty welcoming, too, fwiw, if you're looking for another project to add to your list.
As someone who's also facing a brutal job hunt, my heart goes out to you and I hope you land somewhere worthy soon. <3
@xavi92 Best of luck in the hunt. I suspect there's going to have to be some AI-ification of your CV since hiring has trended towards 'AI' resume filtering even before the current rise of LLMs. The conventional wisdom seems to involve 1-2 sentence brags about the business impact of individual job-skills, though there's a lot of variance around what people consider to be the best approach.
Mirroring some other commentors there certainly do seem to be a variety of openings that are no longer available (but still listed), openings that are looking for a unicorn of an employee, and openings that don't correspond to a real job, but are there to gauge the state of the industry.
Always great to see FOSS contributors and hopefully the search doesn't take you too long.
In possibly propitious timeline convergence, has anyone pointed you at this thread yet?
https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/115262699899518605
I see a lot of people who are hurt or confused when they apply for jobs and don't even receive a reply. Let me share information that may cast this in a new light for you. Years ago, I was a tech recruiter. This was in a scarce labor market, nothing like the layoffs of 2025. When we posted a new job, I would typically receive 500+ applications in the first day. Imagine what the tsunami of applications must be like today. 1/n
This is what I do. I've found in the last decade plus the big advantage is that although there aren't *that* many jobs, there are VERY few people who have the skills to do embedded C, write low level drivers, talk to peripherals etc.
People are getting trained in high level languages so there's plenty of people doing C#, Java etc but good low level C skills are not abundant.
Good luck in your hunt.
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