If I Were Looking For A Tech Job in 2026

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My boi said. You need money to create your own experience when you’re trying to get money to get experience.

Is this really the world we want to live in? How many hiring managers had to start a business in order to get a job? It’s one thing to start a business because you believe in an idea, but just to get a job? I feel for the kids coming of college. This is a completely unfair market.

Great advice and ideas, I’ll give him that, but this takes a lot more time and effort than he’s giving credit to. People have a lot more going on in their lives than just work. Regardless, I still appreciate the content.

Good luck out there guys.

In general I think there's some great advice there. One thing though is not trying to do all at once. Trying to learn a tech in depth AND trying to build a business with marketing, customer support, etc. at the same time will leave you stretched thin.

I’m an optimist in the industry, but this isn’t exactly true. Even if you get the interviews, the requirements have risen for everyone. Even with the best impact resume, you have to have the perfect 5-8 interviews to land the offer. Employers nowadays can expect perfection because there is a lot of people looking, and the candidates are no longer in a position of power.

I work in big tech and people occasionally reach out for referrals which I don’t mind doing because of the referral bonus (and it’s not a huge amount of people anyway) but when someone starts to ask me “curious” questions about the tech stack and the work and blah blah, but I can smell the fact that they’re just trying to be polite before asking for a referral I get annoyed. Like you can tell the whole conversation is this fake nicety song and dance they feel they need to do before asking and the convo feels so forced.

Did this since 2023. The experience of ownership and execution is unmatched. It’s a marathon at this point. Passed multiple screenings now that I hadn’t before, fingers crossed.

This is gold!