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.
No offense but if you think that C# transfers to C++ that could explain part of your problem. If you came to me for a C++ role I'm hiring and you said this, that would be enough for me to know you don't know C++ and I wouldn't want to let you anywhere near my codebase.