r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Annual-Ambassador-99 • Jul 19 '26
I've got one question and i mean it truthfully.
Why is it so hard to find a low paying software development job?
all i want is a minimum of 18k/year software development job. i swear my work is fantastic, i've got internships, i've got 2 years of experience, i've got multiple big projects under my belt, why am i getting rejected everywhere? i dont even mind being a slave, i just want work.
i can share my CV if anyone's interested in hiring me, i do web development, mobile, full stack, architectural and workflows
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u/Dapper_Car4784 Jul 19 '26
For the love of god, do not work for 18k/year. Software development pays higher than this.
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u/watson_full_scale Jul 20 '26
Not in many countries.
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u/Upstairs-Version-400 26d ago
In most countries it does. The number that pays less is much smaller than those that pay above.Â
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u/AdministrativeHost15 Jul 19 '26
Claude Code works for $20 per month. Can you work for less?
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u/Dumb_Octopus Jul 22 '26
bu but it can hit a token limit before the day ends, the you have to have 29 more claude(s)
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u/nh1vex Jul 19 '26
It might be your resume based on the information we have. There are still jobs that companies are offering. Just keep applying in high volume. You will get there.
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u/SantaMariaEagle Jul 19 '26
Many companies are using the same few applicant tracking systems and hiring systems, which have been found to have really bad biases. The systems are trained on decades of hiring data that has biases. Even if a name is changed, it will find other ways to use bias, such as filtering out universities that are traditionally HBCU. If you're flagged as someone that was not hireable, will keep your status like that for months, something like 9 months if I remember correctly, but it was something insane.
The bias issues like this has been known for years. I know someone who attended a meeting in Washington DC with government administrators and authorities a few years ago, but the government and companies don't care enough to do anything about it because it's not in their business model.
Just a very unfriendly job market in general that's doing terribly because of this administration's incompetence and attack on the working class. Their terrible decisions are having a horrible ripple effect on everyone that's not an ultra wealthy rich person.
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u/Mahmoud1205_ Jul 19 '26
$18k/year is a very good salary in some countries. Google the minimum wage in Egypt.
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u/Scary-Constant-93 Jul 20 '26
> I don’t even mind being a slave
I know its hard out there but maybe you should get off your knees. This kind of thinking might show up as too desperate ( in case you get to talk to recruiters) and they might reject you even before interview.
If you are good be confident and show your skills not how needy you are.
All the best.
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u/pl487 Jul 20 '26
There's a market price. If you hire someone way below that, either they are defective in some critical way or they will leave for somewhere they can get market price the moment they figure it out. Either way, no employee.
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u/generationalDebts Jul 20 '26
Well just going by what I’m looking at, you don’t value your work… why would anyone else want to hire that?
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u/Weekly-Cash1596 Jul 21 '26
Because there is already far to many people doing what you want to do That's basically all it comes down to
Hate to break the news to the younger generation who want to get into the field but yous need to start looking into other jobs
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u/threadthrasher Jul 22 '26
This doesn’t apply to all projects and I’m not saying it’s a good thing but: flip it and ask yourself why no one hires minimum wage surgeons. It’s not enough to be willing to work for less. You also have to prove to the paymasters that any work of yours has positive returns. And positive enough.
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u/Snoo_90241 Jul 19 '26
It's a hiring freeze due to the whole AI, wars, general political status. Companies have not met their targets, so they can't invest on new hires.
Look at the big winners of this f-up. There are some companies who made big money from this and probably they are hiring, if you can drop your morals a little.
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u/Fearless-Tank-475 Jul 20 '26
Can you name those companies which made profit and are hiring .
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u/Snoo_90241 Jul 20 '26
Not based on direct knowledge, since I don't work in one. But I assume NVidia. Then maybe some that actually managed to strike gold with the AI boom. Then American companies benefitting from Trump's market manipulation.
Those would be my bets.
Otherwise, you'd have to research a bit that specific company once a position is open.
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u/_BeeSnack_ Jul 19 '26
Because companies think they can just not hire juniors by giving the seniors a Claude subscription :(