Don't worry about the companies rejections/ghosting. It is really common. If someone tells you that they get offers from every single application they send, they are either geniuses, or liars... or both. Be patient, practice, and persevere. I checked the links and they look good in general. I don't see anything that would automatically disqualify you for a job interview.
About your portfolio website. It is clean and simple, the colors and fonts combination looks professional, the animations are catchy, and content-wise it is very complete (although I'd remove/rephrase the thing about being free all the time). I like it. But there are some things that look strange:
Your picture is not centered, is that intentional? It is the same picture as in GitHub but cropped in a different way (the photo from the mobile version is missing altogether).
Your name is cut in mobile, and only "Siddha" is visible.
Your experience in the about section looks a bit "crowded", all the content is stuck together and could use some spacing.
And looking at the code (you are at dev.to after all :P) there are some things that you may want to consider:
Add metadata and/or open graph tags; they will make for a nice introductory card when shared in social media or communication apps.
Clean the code: in the about section, you have paragraphs with line breaks for what should be lists. Also there are many repetitive inline CSS attributes.
Pay attention to detail: your name is not John Doe ;)
Your Linkedin profile looks really complete, but after reading it a bit deeper (probably more than what a regular recruiter would do anyway), there are a couple of things that put me off, to the point of me considering that your profile (and this post) was some kind of joke:
Keep it professional: consider that Linkedin is supposed to be a professional network. You don't want the first impression that a recruiter gets from you to be of yourself stuffing your face or sleeping into oblivion.
Some experience looks strange/misleading: most of your experience is as an intern, but you state that you were a team lead for 6 people. It may be true, but it sounds exaggerated. More details would help clarify the role and its tasks.
Apart from that, my recommendation would be: interact more. You liked some posts, left some comments (remember to keep it professional), but there is no Siddhant Misra's content. Finding a job is more about networking, and you have 500+ connections. Share posts, write articles. Take into account that each like and share broadens the reach of your content... and of your professional brand.
I'm a software developer who loves tackling problems for various solutions amongst multiple stacks. I love writing clean, scalable and extremely well-commented code. Working with different teams is fu
I hadn't given more thought to the mobile responsiveness of the portfolio and shame on me for that. I have fixed those things.
Good catch on the John Doe.
I agree with the juvenile stuff I have written on there. I thought it would be a sort of "lighten the mood" of sorts. But the harsh reality is that is not the place if a stranger thinks it a joke. Thank you for that.
I'll try adding more details as to what I did rather than the things I have written there. I can understand that there is something off about it, but I assumed people would rather be curious about it and ask, but now in hindsight, it seems too big of an assumption.
I do have a few articles that I have been procrastinating on. I can assure you that there will be more in the week or more.
I can't honestly thank you enough for taking the time out to type this. It may not seem much, but it does make a difference.
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Don't worry about the companies rejections/ghosting. It is really common. If someone tells you that they get offers from every single application they send, they are either geniuses, or liars... or both. Be patient, practice, and persevere. I checked the links and they look good in general. I don't see anything that would automatically disqualify you for a job interview.
About your portfolio website. It is clean and simple, the colors and fonts combination looks professional, the animations are catchy, and content-wise it is very complete (although I'd remove/rephrase the thing about being free all the time). I like it. But there are some things that look strange:
And looking at the code (you are at dev.to after all :P) there are some things that you may want to consider:
Your Linkedin profile looks really complete, but after reading it a bit deeper (probably more than what a regular recruiter would do anyway), there are a couple of things that put me off, to the point of me considering that your profile (and this post) was some kind of joke:
Apart from that, my recommendation would be: interact more. You liked some posts, left some comments (remember to keep it professional), but there is no Siddhant Misra's content. Finding a job is more about networking, and you have 500+ connections. Share posts, write articles. Take into account that each like and share broadens the reach of your content... and of your professional brand.
Wow, thank you so much for all that feedback.
I hadn't given more thought to the mobile responsiveness of the portfolio and shame on me for that. I have fixed those things.
Good catch on the John Doe.
I agree with the juvenile stuff I have written on there. I thought it would be a sort of "lighten the mood" of sorts. But the harsh reality is that is not the place if a stranger thinks it a joke. Thank you for that.
I'll try adding more details as to what I did rather than the things I have written there. I can understand that there is something off about it, but I assumed people would rather be curious about it and ask, but now in hindsight, it seems too big of an assumption.
I do have a few articles that I have been procrastinating on. I can assure you that there will be more in the week or more.
I can't honestly thank you enough for taking the time out to type this. It may not seem much, but it does make a difference.