2500 apps is with his wife and brother helping. 46 phone screens out of that, a 1.8% conversion rate, is totally realistic. My rate was 6% but I was very targeted. I had 32 phone screens. These usually only take 30 minutes and don't require much prep.
> maybe the market has shifted drastically
You're catching on. This is the worst job market in 20 years, far worse than the 2009 recession. In 2009, tons of college kids were still getting in Amazon but new grads today are struggling to find anything. This is a tectonic shift causing mountains to crumble, and we will be feeling the effects for decades.
> In 2009, tons of college kids were still getting in Amazon
Clearly, "tons" of kids getting into 1 company (out of several thousand just public ones), is a great indicator.
Just for reference, I actually lived through the 11% unemployment out of college. The market for fresh grads was absolutely brutal. A good 20-30% of my cohort never recovered and never broke into higher-paying white collar jobs and still works in jobs that don't require a college degree.
It was so bad, that the fresh grads of those years coined the term "lost generation". Millions of fresh grads just couldn't break into adulting for several years.
Overall unemployment or are you looking at tech specific numbers? Anecdotally I just went through the hardest job search of my career, and many people I know have either just gone through the same or still are. I don't have numbers to it up, but it certainly feels like a rough time to be looking to me.
> maybe the market has shifted drastically
You're catching on. This is the worst job market in 20 years, far worse than the 2009 recession. In 2009, tons of college kids were still getting in Amazon but new grads today are struggling to find anything. This is a tectonic shift causing mountains to crumble, and we will be feeling the effects for decades.