If I could play Tinkerbell for a moment & could tap you on the forehead to give you one of the “hot” in-demand Software Engineering skillz, you’d be lucky to be working.
If you’re older, you’ll be actively discriminated against due to your age.
If the company is H1-B infested... well, they only hire their own kind.
If you look at dice.com right now, there are 82,168 tech jobs available. In reality, the overall number of tech jobs Dice really has may be 10 percent of that number.
Yep. Been there, done that. I left two different positions where the companies were being overrun by Indian H1Bs. In both places, the new Indian managers started hiring only Indian engineers, and used H1Bs like a club to demote and replace the native-born engineers. Fortunately, I found a position in defense, where only US citizens could be hired. Unfortunately, the prevalence of H1Bs in the US has depressed salaries for the entire industry. I’m only a few years from retirement, but definitely couldn’t recommend going into engineering for anyone just starting out.