Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
Let me show you the backdoor:<p>Find a company whose open source projects you are interested in. Dive in and and start fixing things. Then if you really like it after a couple weeks start nudging around for a job. If you do good work they'll just give it to you, no bullshit funnel required.<p>I like this method because you aren't just doing l33t coding exercises to work on some sight unseen codebase that makes you suicidal and throw you into existential crisis.<p>In this modality you are test driving each other.