Some hiring managers prioritize technical skill but its only one part of whether the interviewers "like" a candidate. There are infinite reasons someone can get turned down and only some of them are skill related.

To expect children/teens to outsmart big tech companies putting billions of dollars into getting us all addicted to our phone seems... naive. Removing availability to a vice has always been a somewhat effective strategy to mitigate temptation, i.e. food, drugs, etc.

While trying to decipher some questionably typed, cryptic project requirements a coworker said "someone should make a tool to improve project requirements." So I threw together a chatgpt wrapper with a query template in the time it took to finish the meeting.

I've been wanting to play around with some easy AI ideas so this was a silly way to practice.

what do you mean by "grooming" here?

Presumably backlog grooming, a common scrum (software dev process) ritual.

Correct, in my defense I did research if there is a more standard name before posting :)

I was also going to suggest mock interviews, especially after 40 interviews and no offer.

I second linkedin, in my experience it's been less cluttered with spam jobs and has the most relevant suggestions.

Did you try any other one, or you don't even bother as LinkedIn offers all what you need?

What do you like the most?

Thanks a lot :)

With LI, I haven't applied to jobs in years as recruiters come to me; I simply don't have to do any extra work. With others, I have to actively apply for jobs.

So the offers you received from recruiters via DMs on LI got you the jobs?

The fact that the idea isn't validated was also the red flag to me. I read the lean startup recently, I would recommend that to learn about validating product ideas as you build as to not get to a finished product that no one will pay for.

How do you validate those product ideas? Are you posting about it and fishing for engagement, or building some real quick and dirty prototypes?

The general advice is "do things that don't scale" so rather than trying to post about it and get some analytical data, just go talk to 20 people in your target market for an hour each and see what resonates with them, what problems they have etc -- all before building anything (except maybe a simple mockup if you feel it will get your point across better.)

Definitely both but likely starting by talking to your target demographic and then building an MVP if it seems like people would pay money for it.