My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs

Matt Dupree
8 min readJan 26, 2020

I wrapped up my job search recently, and I’m happy to say that I’ll be joining a YC-backed startup called “Heap.” I thought I’d share a little bit about my job search in case the information may benefit other job-seeking devs. I’ll go over the pipeline of places I applied to and the result of each application. I’ll also talk about things like salary, resume formatting, coding challenge prep, and interviewing. I don’t intend any of this to be advice. Rather, I hope it’ll be a data point that other job-seeking devs could use to inform their own expectations…

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Matt Dupree

Wannabe philosophy professor turned wannabe tech entrepreneur.