🔥 Join the Developer Career Insider Club: live small-group coaching 3x a week with a former CTO & International Recruiter
Stafford, UK
Joined September 2026
- Tweets139
- Following10
- Followers4
- Likes6
Behavioural interviews don't reward competence. They reward whoever tells the best story. That's not fair, but it's true, and you can learn it without becoming an actor 🧵
The irony: good engineers often UNDERSELL themselves because they think the work should speak for itself. It doesn't. Nobody in that room can read your code. They can only hear your story.
Here's why you're not landing interviews of getting job offers right now....
Every dev pitches "I know React" or "I know TypeScript". Great, so does everyone else and this is only making you blend in, not stand out. So, let's learn from Stephen King and South Park! 🧵
🤖 Made with AI
You list your tech skills, one after another, and yet we know nothing of the character. People don't buy soulless events, they buy stories and characters that they feel invested in. Your job applications are easily dismissed as there's nothing to identify with.
Did AI just kill your software development career?
If you genuinely think that then may I remind you of how much people pay for a coffee at Starbucks every day.
Every single day they Pay an extortionate amount because they can't be bothered to put a pot on themselves!
Your 10 years in a non-tech career isn't a gap you need to explain away. It's the only thing about you an AI can't replicate and a 22 year old CS grad doesn't have. Stop hiding it on your CV!
No feedback IS feedback.
If you were worth talking to, someone would have talked to you. Silence from 100 companies isn't bad luck. It's a pattern. Patterns mean YOU'RE the variable.
Small changes that make you visible:
→ Apply direct to companies not advertising
→ Lead with why THAT company, not your tech stack
→ Make your profile prove value, not list history
None of this is revolutionary. That's why nobody does it.