I’ve applied to between 550-600 jobs since December and hardly heard anything back. The past two weeks recruiters started reaching out to me and at this point I’m at least having early round discussions with 5 companies. They’re mostly smaller and somewhere in the health care space, but I went from virtually 0 to having something. Obviously it’s early stages so you can’t count on anything, but it looks like things may be picking up again.
The situation is identical for me in France. More than 200 resume sent in 6 months, lots of ghosting, less than 10 interviews with random rejection, or job offers that are removed because they don’t have the budget anymore or something.
I’m starting to think about what I could do besides programming, it’s a real mess.