>>76811041
Only if you intentionally live beyond your means and get a $6K per month apartment. The bay area makes it VERY easy to live beyond your means no matter what your salary is.
>>76811040
No!
>>76811029
>What should I do as opposed to blind firing?
Leverage your network. Create one if you don't have one. Projects on github and posting on linkedin are an okay place to start to garner some name recognition but you don't have a real network until you solve a problem for someone who actually knows you.
I don't have the statistics in front of me but something like 90% of actual hires companies are making at the moment come from OUTBOUND applicants, aka, referrals and people being head hunted by recruiters. Inbound applicants are largely fucked because there are so many of them it's easier to just ignore them all than to even sift through them with AI.
I was head hunted.
>Curtail each resume to each job??
This will help the blind firing process but in the massive arms race at scale, this has gone from "helps you stand out" to "basic requirement" because everyone else is doing it. This is where gippity enters the process for you.
>>76811023
>What do u think made them give u that job despite dropping out?
There are three factors :
1. After dropping out I immediately entered the work force and started gaining practical skills. I took the very, VERY long route to get here. Initially working sales, then tech support, then cloud ops, then SWE before being head hunted for my current role.
2. Someone who is competent, much less skilled, in both ops and SWE work is extremely rare. Typically people take one or the other route. They grind their way from sysadmin to SRE not really learning to code. Or they go to school, get an ego about ops work, and only want to write code. My role is a mid-point between the two, I have done deep performance work and shipped features across the full stack. Effectively whatever the business needs at that time.
3. Dumb luck of course.
