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Is the market that rough for senior frontend engineers? its been 6 months now , i am losing my mind and brain, I am hating this city , i am hating recruiters, managers who just extracted infoirmation from me , rejected me even after performing well , i dont know what shall i do now,i am not even getting calls, its even more cruel for females , its getting hard ,

I am seriously very worried , what's happening , is it just with me ?

Is it just me, or has the market for Senior Frontend Engineer roles become incredibly quiet?

I've been searching consistently, and I'm barely seeing any openings anymore. It's honestly exhausting.

Sometimes I wonder—if companies aren't hiring UI engineers, who's building and maintaining all these web applications we use every day?

Is anyone else in the same boat, or are you seeing something different in the market?

Maybe the reality is something else !!

Maybe the role was never truly open.
These jobs keep getting reposted every day , and candidates keep wondering what's wrong with them.

Maybe ,the reality is something else !!

Maybe the role was never truly open.
These jobs keep getting reposted every day , and candidates keep wondering what's wrong with them.

During an interview, I was asked to show the applications I had worked on.

Enterprise applications. Restricted systems. Things sitting behind authentication, VPNs, and company security policies.

I explained that these systems weren't publicly accessible.

Then things got stranger.

The interviewer turned off his camera midway through the interview. The conversation went nowhere. I was later rejected, with no meaningful feedback.

It genuinely made me wonder: Was this an interview, or had the decision already been made and we were simply looking for a reason?

Because evaluating a senior engineer should mean discussing , decisions, trade-offs and impact — not asking them to produce confidential company systems on demand.

Verdict : i got a rejection mail next day !

Joined an interview for a Staff/Senior Engineer role today.

Interviewer: “Suppose I write <div>xyz</div> and save it as .html. What will happen?”

Me: “Sorry… what exactly are you asking?”

Him: repeats the same question.

At this point I genuinely couldn't believe this was a Staff Engineer interview.

I asked, “Are you seriously assessing HTML like this for a Staff role?”

Then I just said, “I’m sorry, I’ll have to drop. Thank you so much.” And left.

I’m all for testing fundamentals. Ask me browser internals, DOM construction, rendering pipeline, accessibility, — absolutely.

But “I saved a div in an HTML file, what happens?” for someone with 10+ YOE?

What exactly are we evaluating here? Whether I know that a browser can open an HTML file? 😭

Maybe the next round was going to be “What happens when you click a button?” 💀

Would you have continued this interview?

Joined an interview for a Staff/Senior React Engineer role today.

Interviewer: “Suppose I write <div>xyz</div> and save it as .html. What will happen?”

Me: “Sorry… what exactly are you asking?”

Him: repeats the same question.

At this point I genuinely couldn't believe this was a Staff Engineer interview.

I asked, “Are you seriously assessing HTML like this for a Staff role?”

Then I just said, “I’m sorry, I’ll have to drop. Thank you so much.” And left.

I’m all for testing fundamentals. Ask me browser internals, DOM construction, rendering pipeline, accessibility, — absolutely.

But “I saved a div in an HTML file, what happens?” for someone with 10+ YOE?

What exactly are we evaluating here?

Maybe the next round was going to be “What happens when you click a button?” 💀

Would you have continued this interview?

I had a recruiter screening with Five9. The recruiter missed the scheduled call, rescheduled it about an hour later, asked whether I was willing to work weekends, I said no , and I was rejected the next day, Honestly , i really wonder what kind of power play is this goign on,Thank God , i am saved

So, I recently had an screening interview with a company . At first , The recruiter didn't join the scheduled call. After waiting for almost 15 min , I followed up, then she mentioned she was having internet issues. That can happen. she asked me to rejoin after 1 hour .So i joined back,

It started with knowing about my experience and then I was asked if I could work on weekends. I explained that Sundays were reserved for personal commitments. I was then told that it would require around nine hours shift on weekends . I said I could help occasionally for a couple of hours, but not give up every Saturday.

She says we would let you know if we at all decide to move forward .I said sure .

Soon after, I received a rejection email.

And honestly, I'm happy about it.

Every interview teaches you something—not just about the role, but about the company and its culture. To me Work-life balance is a necessity.

To the HR reading this , Thankyou for the rejection ,you helped me avoid the wrong fit.

Recently, I had interviews with Aptiv, Publicis Sapient, RingCentral, Standard Chartered Bank, and Oleria.

A common pattern I noticed: senior interviewers choosing to keep their cameras off throughout the interview.

What exactly are you evaluating while hiding behind a black screen?

You expect candidates to be on time, well prepared, professionally dressed, and camera-on. Why doesn't the same standard apply to the interview panel? Is this the culture your company wants candidates to experience?

In one recent interview, I chose to withdraw rather than continue under those conditions. In others, I stayed, only to be grilled for over an hour by two or three interviewers who all kept their cameras off.

This isn't about rejection. Companies have every right to reject candidates. It's about basic professionalism and mutual respect.

Going forward, I will withdraw from interviews where the panel refuses to turn on their cameras. An interview is a two-way evaluation, and professionalism is expected from both sides.

If you're representing your company, please represent it with the same seriousness you expect from every candidate.

A recruiter called me today regarding an opportunity with Dentsu Global.

She first asked whether I had experience in full-stack development. I asked her which technologies the role specifically required. She mentioned Node.js/Python on the backend and React/React Native on the frontend.

I told her that I have experience with Node.js and React. She then asked whether I had experience with Python, and I honestly said that I didn't.

After that, she asked, "So did you start your career with Node.js?" I clarified that I actually began my career as a Java Full-Stack Developer, working with Java, Spring, Hibernate, and frontend technologies before later working with Node.js.

She responded by saying, "Allow me some time, I'll call you back." However, I never received a follow-up call. I could not really understand what was she looking for exactly !!

Spoiled my Sunday already !! :/

FAKE JOBS EVERYWHERE !!! How are developers supposed to survive ? Do you want dancing cows to code ? whats wrong with the frontend jobs ? barely getting calls . even though interviews go well , getting rejected . I see two genrations sitting in the hiring committee , juniors whoa re asking theoritical questions and rejecting ,and senior management who havent upgraded themselves since ages rejectign again,some are rejecting in ego ,as they feel as technically incompetent by seeing your capabilities , all losers are only running IT SECTOR !!

So, Had an interview with concert.ai yesterday the interviewer was so dumb , he was asking questions without any context ,gained knowledge ,grilled for 1hour and the whole interview went well, he was using ai to ask questions , he was developing something ,and needed few strategies to improve the applciation, he rejected me just after the interview ,What a loser ! Same happened with standard chartered bank,Uncle interviewer with camera off , was asking all questions ,grilled , dint know what authentication question he was asking, he ghosted me eventually , God knows what these losers are looking for , when you look at their professional background , you will know what they were anyways losers ,sorry i wanted to rant , beacuse those whoa re takign interviews right now are thinkign themselves as god,you are not , fillign 1 position and taking 1000 interviews ,the role is opened since 8 months , what are you even doing , if you have no plans to hire , please dont do time pass with candidates , we have to pay bills ,we get demotivated , Losers !!

Recently appeared for an interview for a Senior frontend develoepr at some mediocre company , Hyderbad , this interviewer was reading my resume aloud during the interview , Now the first question he asks me do you know database,how to read/write a query . i said yes, i hvw orked , now the next question he asked was tell me about a json structue ,what kind of questions are these ,who appoints these people ,i left the call because i found it quite irrelevant , I mean what is this market ? Faceless interviewers , why cant you face the camera and ask questions

Is the market dead for senior frontend engineers , or the hiring managers have eaten roles tryign to save money ?? or they are waiting for a massive tech debt ,

They grill you in an about for 1 hour or more, Trust me tells a lot about your culture. specially if you are the female candiadate it gets uncomfortable , where i am supposed to look , on a blank screen ,, seriously cowards do this , incompetent people who dont have courage to face thing sin life .Sometimes i feel i should just leave but , i hate corporate already, no sense at all , Not all companies but some , Please dont take interviewers you dont have manners ,please save the world ,make it a better place , happenign with both generations young an old , its very annoying , I am so irriatted already !!

Walmart keeps hiring on linked in, does anyone even gets hired ?? i have been seeing this since 4 months now all positons open since 4 months ,

Is hiring even going on ??? Looks like interviewers , hiring managers and HRs are doing time pass and enjoying it , Dont bother to reply, even if interviews go well , they reject and fail to provide reason , What is this inhuman era ??? Most of the fronten djobs have been eliminated and gettign replaced by full stack , They dont know they a re enterign a massive tech debt era , Eliminating roles wont ,help , and Time pass wont help either , i am observign that the hiring is sometimes going on since 6-7 months , may be they are hiring a NASA Scientist ,