6 months ago my project was cancelled and the startup I was working for was going to reconsider its position. In the meantime everyone was sent home “awaiting further information”. Initially I didn’t think much of it. Surely as a full stack developer, I will find something else in no-time. Now, a little over 6 months I got invited twice to an interview, and that's it.

This isn't about not finding a job or not getting invited, it's about the lack of response. Anywhere. I apply for about 10 to 15 jobs aday, and I rarely get a response. I apply for freelance jobs and I almost never get a reply. I spend about 1.5 hours per day on different dating apps, and I almost never get a reply after a match. Whenever I find bugs or issues in open source projects, I try my best to submit bug reports or PR requests. More often than not I do not get any reaction. I sent over 150 bug reports to the Unreal Engine project, including stack traces and example code, and I have yet to receive the first reply. I posted my little resume on “HN: Who’s for hire” and I only receive mass target spam messages from what I assume are bots. In fact, almost all emails I get are untargeted, clearly sent by bots or automated scripts.

Just a couple of days ago, I got an email from a startup expressing their interest in my resume. After mailing back and forth a couple of times the conversation suddenly ended. No reaction. No reply to my last email. I asked them if they were still interested but never got anything back.

I submitted a loan application to one of the world's largest banks and received no response by phone, email, or text. I can cite another 50 examples...

I asked people around me if they have been experiencing the same lack of interaction. Most of them seem to recognize the problem, but aren’t really bothered by it. I have no idea what to think of all this...