I am a software developer for 3 years with experience with .NET development. I got laid off 3 months ago from my small company of 30 people after my company losing the big tech contract and reducing workforce to focus on financial side of fintech industry. I am applying to jobs ever since with the hopes of getting higher pay since my company used to pay me 60k which is very low in Montreal, and whenever I go to interview I would get small inefficient companies trying to lowball me lower than what I used to get as dev it is so underwhelming. I also have an ethnic asian name which I think makes everything worse for applying to jobs. I see people here claiming they get 85k as 2 yoe developer and I get overwhelmed and feel like I picked wrong industry in Montreal. Do people lie in Reddit about their salaries or am I getting screwed by some circumstances uncontrollable by me. I am a fine developer if you check my resume too.
I did they repost the same jobs or ghost jobs that goes nowhere. I don't get callback unless I apply to every job.
I'm having the opposite problem, my background is with Oracle (pl/sql,forms,reports, APEX) and most job offers I get are for junior/intermediate, but I'm a senior dev. And being in Quebec City, most jobs are government contracts, so lowest bidders. So getting a decent pay is rough, but I did get lucky.
More like they want senior devs at junior prices.
Pretty much, yeah