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I Am A Developer (Just Not During Interviews)
Programming Devops Algorithms Debugging Backend
27 minutes ago 3.2K views 0 shares
I Am A Developer (Just Not During Interviews)
The raw existential crisis of a seasoned developer who's built complex production systems that handle millions of users but completely freezes when asked to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard. Nothing says "tech industry disconnect" quite like maintaining mission-critical infrastructure by day and failing to remember how to implement quicksort by night. The gatekeeping is real, folks. Imagine building an entire fault-tolerant distributed system but getting rejected because you couldn't solve a puzzle that hasn't been relevant since your sophomore year.

Beyond Full Stack
Backend Webdev Devops Agile Programming
20 hours ago 141.3K views 0 shares
Beyond Full Stack
Ah, the legendary "dude-ception" of modern tech careers! You start as a backend developer, happy in your dark corner with databases and APIs. Then suddenly you're fixing CSS and arguing about button colors. Next thing you know, you're running sprint planning and explaining to stakeholders why features are "almost done." It's like wearing three different masks while your soul quietly questions every life decision that led to this point. The backend dev inside you is screaming while your manager persona is scheduling yet another meeting that could've been an email.

After Five Rounds Of Interviews
Programming
1 day ago 96.4K views 0 shares
After Five Rounds Of Interviews
Surviving five rounds of technical interviews only to be stumped by the salary question is peak tech industry absurdity. You've memorized sorting algorithms, explained microservices architecture, and built a binary tree on a whiteboard—but somehow pricing your own worth feels like dividing by zero. The real technical challenge was never the coding questions; it was figuring out how to ask for enough money without scaring them away but also not leaving $40k on the table because you said a number too quickly. Next time just respond with "SELECT MAX(salary) FROM your_other_employees WHERE experience = mine;"

The Ultimate Career Prank
AI Webdev Programming
4 days ago 100.0K views 0 shares
The Ultimate Career Prank
Nothing says "career optimization" quite like spending your entire youth mastering skills that become obsolete the moment ChatGPT learns to write a for-loop. The education system really nailed that return on investment. Somewhere, a CS professor is updating their syllabus to include "How to Convince AI You're Still Useful 101."

Starting A New Job: Expectations vs Reality
Programming Agile Debugging Testing
5 days ago 118.7K views 0 shares
Starting A New Job: Expectations vs Reality
First day optimism vs battle-hardened reality. You show up ready to slay the legacy codebase dragon with your shiny best practices sword, only to eventually join the "if nobody touches it, nobody gets hurt" cult. The transformation from idealistic code hero to pragmatic survivor is the most reliable deployment pipeline in our industry. Fun fact: Studies show 94% of refactoring initiatives die quietly in Jira, labeled as "technical debt" until the heat death of the universe.

Me In Five Years
AI Programming
9 days ago 83.4K views 0 shares
Me In Five Years
The resume inflation has begun! We've all seen that one colleague who suddenly became an "AI expert" after using ChatGPT twice. Five years from now, we'll be sitting in interviews listening to people explain how they've been "pioneering machine learning solutions" since 2023, when in reality they just figured out how to prompt an LLM without it hallucinating too badly. The true AI skill of our generation? Convincing robots not to write poems when you just want them to fix your regex.

Interview Preparation Vs Actual Work
Programming Algorithms Debugging Databases Backend
11 days ago 137.7K views 0 shares
Interview Preparation Vs Actual Work
Left side: A pristine O'Reilly book with an elegant wild boar illustration, promising the secrets to "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" with "reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems." Right side: The same boar, but now sleeping on a dirty mattress next to garbage bins. The elegant theory meets the trashy reality. Spent three months mastering B-trees and distributed consensus algorithms just to end up writing SQL queries that could've been figured out with a 5-minute Stack Overflow search. The duality of software engineering: expectation vs. the glorious dumpster fire we call production.

They Don't Know I Have A Computer Science Degree
Programming
12 days ago 136.5K views 0 shares
They Don't Know I Have A Computer Science Degree
Four years of algorithm analysis, data structures, and discrete mathematics just to ask if you want ketchup with that. The job market's so saturated that your resume with "proficient in 12 programming languages" is now being used to wrap burgers. Still paying off student loans with minimum wage while the CS dropout who made a silly app about cats is now worth millions. The ultimate stack overflow.

The Computer Science Factory Is Hiring
Programming
20 days ago 186.7K views 0 shares
The Computer Science Factory Is Hiring
Nothing says "I understand technology" quite like thinking Computer Science is about manufacturing computers. Dad's response is the perfect encapsulation of why explaining your career to family is harder than explaining recursion to a first-year student. The classic disconnect between what non-tech people think we do ("oh, you can fix my printer!") versus the reality of crying over a missing semicolon at 2AM. The computer science factory is currently hiring - must have 10 years experience in a language that's 3 years old and be willing to work for exposure.

The 1000th Ghosting Achievement Unlocked
Programming
22 days ago 93.5K views 0 shares
The 1000th Ghosting Achievement Unlocked
The job market's really out here giving junior devs the full Dark Souls experience. Four rounds of technical interviews, a take-home project that would take a senior dev a week, and then... *crickets*. The absolute exhaustion of putting your soul into yet another application only to be ghosted is perfectly captured here. The best part? Companies still wondering why they can't find "qualified candidates" while their ATS automatically rejects anyone without 5 years experience in a framework that's 3 years old. At this point, junior devs aren't even mad anymore—just tired in their bones.

When The Tech Recession Hits Different
Programming Algorithms
23 days ago 78.9K views 0 shares
When The Tech Recession Hits Different
Four years of algorithms, data structures, and sleepless nights debugging code just to be told your Computer Science degree is perfect for scanning groceries. That recruiter algorithm must be using Internet Explorer on Windows 95. At least the "This is a bad match" button is self-aware enough to recognize the existential crisis it's causing. Nothing says "tech recession" like getting job alerts for positions where your most advanced skill will be memorizing produce codes.

Come Work For PHP Hub
php Webdev Programming Backend
23 days ago 100.0K views 0 shares
Come Work For PHP Hub
The job market hierarchy in full display! First panel: hopeful programmer asking if anyone needs their services. Second panel: crushing rejection and existential crisis ensues. Third panel: suddenly someone needs a developer! Fourth panel: plot twist—it's for PHP and the dramatic lightning effects perfectly capture every modern developer's internal screaming. The ultimate programming food chain where PHP sits at the bottom of the desirability spectrum. Even desperate unemployed devs have standards! It's basically the equivalent of saying "I need someone to maintain this COBOL codebase from 1972 with zero documentation."