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Connections > Competence
Programming
4 days ago 58.5K views 0 shares
Connections > Competence
The tech industry's dirty little secret: your perfectly crafted resume with a master's degree, relevant experience, and flawless portfolio is no match for Bob from accounting's cousin who "knows someone." Nothing like watching six years of education and experience get outgunned by a single Slack message from an internal referral. The tech hiring meritocracy is just nepotism wearing a hoodie.

When Vibes Replace Variables
Programming Debugging
10 days ago 60.4K views 0 shares
When Vibes Replace Variables
DARLING, I'VE SEEN THINGS. Hiring managers SCREAMING into the void as Gen Z candidates list "vibe coding" right next to JavaScript and Python! The absolute AUDACITY! It's like claiming you're fluent in "good energy" or have 5 years experience in "manifesting algorithms." Honey, the only vibes in coding are the vibrations of my keyboard as I frantically debug at 2AM while questioning my life choices. Your positive energy won't fix that null pointer exception, sweetie! 💅

The Infinite Loop Of Technical Interviews
Algorithms Programming
18 days ago 100.1K views 0 shares
The Infinite Loop Of Technical Interviews
Ah, the vicious cycle of tech interviews. You spend weeks memorizing quicksort implementations that you'll never use in production, only to get hired and inflict the same algorithmic hazing on the next generation of developers. It's like learning elaborate medieval torture techniques just so you can become the torturer. And we wonder why our codebases are full of npm packages that sort arrays.

Interviews Vs Reality
Programming Algorithms StackOverflow Debugging
24 days ago 82.7K views 1 shares
Interviews Vs Reality
Technical interviews these days are basically survival combat with a grizzly bear while the actual job is just playing with Winnie the Pooh. Nothing says "modern tech hiring" like being mauled by algorithm questions you'll never use again, only to spend your career copying from Stack Overflow and asking ChatGPT to explain regex. The bear should be wearing a "Binary Tree Traversal" t-shirt for accuracy.

The New Pandemic: Vibe-Coding Gone Viral
Programming Agile Debugging Testing
28 days ago 75.0K views 0 shares
The New Pandemic: Vibe-Coding Gone Viral
That moment when your face physically contorts from the pain of reviewing an intern's code, only to discover HR wants to hire them permanently . It's like finding a production database with no backups and realizing the CTO thinks it's "innovative." The horror intensifies when you remember you'll be maintaining that spaghetti code long after the "vibe-coding" wunderkind has moved on to their next unsuspecting victim. The real pandemic isn't viral—it's nested ternary operators with no comments!

Good Devs Are Expensive Until Disaster Strikes
Devops Agile Programming Debugging Testing
1 month ago 85.3K views 0 shares
Good Devs Are Expensive Until Disaster Strikes
The financial calculus of software development hits different at 3 AM when your servers are burning. That $150/hour senior dev you rejected? Suddenly looks like a bargain when compared to the $50,000/minute revenue loss from your payment system being down. The technical debt collector always shows up at the worst possible time, and unlike regular debt collectors, this one charges compound interest in the form of your engineering team's sanity and your customers' trust. Pro tip: The cost of prevention is always cheaper than the cost of the cure.

Can You Explain The Gap In Your Resume?
C++ Devops Git Programming
1 month ago 112.5K views 0 shares
Can You Explain The Gap In Your Resume?
The irony of Bjarne Stroustrup—you know, just the guy who created C++ —having only one green square on his GitHub contribution graph is chef's kiss material. Recruiters everywhere are frantically updating their "red flags" documentation. Meanwhile, the person who invented the language that powers half the world's critical infrastructure would probably get auto-rejected by the ATS systems he helped make possible. Next interview question: "So, Mr. Stroustrup, what would you say you actually do here?"

The Job Market Is Stranger Than Fiction
Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming
1 month ago 109.8K views 0 shares
The Job Market Is Stranger Than Fiction
Remember 2010? When a homeless guy coding HTML for food was a joke? Fast forward to 2024, and suddenly we're all one framework update away from that cardboard sign. The tech industry's evolution has been less "innovation curve" and more "existential horror movie." Back then, we laughed at HTML being considered a survival skill. Now we're watching junior devs with 12 frameworks and a GitHub full of projects getting rejected for not having "10+ years of Svelte experience." The real horror isn't the job market—it's realizing that cardboard sign guy was just 14 years ahead of his time. A true visionary entrepreneur with impeccable market timing.

Prompt Injection: Job Application Edition
AI Security Programming
1 month ago 99.3K views 0 shares
Prompt Injection: Job Application Edition
Behold, the modern job search hack! This genius is trying to prompt-inject the resume-scanning AI that most companies use to filter candidates. It's like SQL injection but for desperate job seekers. Anyone who's suffered through the automated application void knows these systems are the final boss between you and a human interviewer. This person's just skipping the grind and going straight for the exploit. Ten years of experience says this won't work, but five years of cynicism says it's worth a shot. The real irony? The person who built the CV scanner probably appreciates this hack more than the HR team ever would.

Come On Suffer With Us
Frontend Webdev Programming Debugging
1 month ago 86.5K views 0 shares
Come On Suffer With Us
Ah, the eternal workplace dynamics. Designers treat new hires like existential threats to their creative domain. "Am I not enough?" they sob, while questioning their entire portfolio and life choices. Engineers, meanwhile, just grunt "apes together strong" and immediately add the new dev to their collective debugging hivemind. Nothing bonds engineers like shared trauma over legacy code. The more hands to hold while staring into the void of production bugs, the better.

Job Interview Question For Team Lead Position
Agile Algorithms Programming
1 month ago 91.4K views 0 shares
Job Interview Question For Team Lead Position
This is basically the "Fox, Chicken, and Grain" logic puzzle repackaged as the ultimate management nightmare. Except instead of preventing your chicken from being eaten, you're preventing your team from murdering each other. The solution? Move the bore first, then the idiot, then bring the bore back, then move the asshole, and finally move the bore again. Though the real power move would be to just quit and find a company with functioning HR. And they say technical interviews are unrealistic...

Core Requirement
Debugging Devops Agile Programming Testing
1 month ago 96.0K views 0 shares
Core Requirement
The thousand-yard stare of a developer who's survived multiple production outages is worth more than any certification. Nothing teaches you how to handle chaos like watching your carefully crafted code implode spectacularly at 3 AM while executives breathe down your neck. The battle scars of debugging nightmares are basically an unwritten qualification on every senior dev job posting.