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The LeetCode Trap

13 hours ago 58.3K views 0 shares

The ultimate bait and switch in software engineering! First panel: "Code is the easy part of software engineering" – spoken by someone who clearly wants to watch the world burn. Second panel: "Great! This LeetCode will be a breeze for you!" – says the innocent interviewee, falling right into the trap. The last two panels show the interviewer's silent, progressively angrier reaction – because we all know the painful truth: being good at actual software engineering has almost nothing to do with solving contrived algorithm puzzles under pressure. It's like saying "I'm great at driving" and then being tested on your ability to build a carburetor blindfolded.

My Ability To Think Slow

Algorithms Programming

13 days ago 66.4K views 0 shares

The interviewer asks for a simple array sort of just 0s, 1s, and 2s (literally the easiest sorting problem ever), and this poor soul immediately jumps to Bubble Sort—the algorithmic equivalent of using a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame. For the uninitiated, this is a classic interview problem with a O(n) solution—just count occurrences and rebuild the array! But under pressure, our brain defaults to the first sorting algorithm we learned in CS101. The interviewer's face says it all: your grandma with a walker would cross the finish line before your O(n²) bubble sort even gets halfway through. Nothing captures the interview panic spiral quite like forgetting that you're sorting just THREE UNIQUE VALUES while proposing an algorithm from the stone age of computing.

Why Is No One Hiring Me? Market Must Be Dead

Javascript Webdev Algorithms Programming

24 days ago 83.9K views 0 shares

Why Is No One Hiring Me? Market Must Be Dead

On the left: "CS is dead!" crowd screaming into the void on Reddit. On the right: Developer proudly using array.sort()[0] in an interview when asked to find the smallest number in a list. Turns out the job market isn't dead—it just doesn't want people who think built-in methods are algorithmic brilliance. Who knew interviewers wanted to see you actually understand sorting algorithms instead of calling JavaScript's magical sort fairy?

True Excel Expertise Is Measured In Hatred

Microsoft Windows Programming

1 month ago 99.9K views 0 shares

True Excel Expertise Is Measured In Hatred

The universal truth of Excel expertise: the more you know, the more you despise it. Nothing says "power user" like the burning hatred that comes from understanding Excel's dark corners. The HR person immediately recognizes this as advanced proficiency—because only someone who's spent years wrestling with VLOOKUP failures and circular reference errors could harbor such authentic resentment.

What Do You Mean Other Structures

Algorithms Programming Python Java

1 month ago 99.7K views 0 shares

Look at this poor, emaciated HashMap cow being MILKED TO DEATH by this cheerful LeetCode farmer! 💀 The absolute AUDACITY! While the rest of the programming world has moved on to fancy data structures, this person is still greeting their HashMap like it's their only friend in the coding universe! "Good mor-ning sunshine!" SERIOUSLY?! It's like watching someone use the same hammer for EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM because they once successfully hit a nail with it. HashMap for this, HashMap for that—what's next, HashMap to calculate rocket trajectories?! The rest of us are over here with our balanced trees, graphs, and priority queues crying in the corner!

The AI-Dependent Developer

AI Programming

1 month ago 188.3K views 0 shares

Ah, the modern "programmer" who only knows how to prompt ChatGPT. Nothing says "I've mastered coding" like typing "Write me a function that..." instead of actually learning syntax. Ten years of experience? More like ten minutes of experience with an AI that does the heavy lifting. The rest of us spent years debugging pointer arithmetic while these folks are getting violently rejected at technical interviews the moment someone asks them to reverse a linked list without digital assistance.

Hello World In "C"

C++ Programming

2 months ago 75.7K views 0 shares

When someone claims they're "good in C," but their idea of writing code is literally arranging the letter 'c' to spell "Hello World." That's like saying you're fluent in Spanish because you can order a burrito at Chipotle. The painful irony is that actual C "Hello World" is just a few lines that any first-year student could Google in 5 seconds: #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World"); return 0; } Yet here we are, watching someone flex their ASCII art skills instead of basic syntax knowledge. Classic interview self-destruction.

State Of Certifications: No Hands On

AWS Devops Programming Cloud

2 months ago 120.5K views 0 shares

The classic certification-vs-reality gap strikes again. Someone shows up to an interview flaunting 12 AWS certifications, only to reveal they've never actually touched the AWS console. It's like having 12 different driver's licenses but asking "what's a steering wheel?" when you get in the car. The hiring manager's face says it all - another resume padder who can pass multiple-choice tests but would crash production on day one.

Use Lib, Not Sweat

Python Algorithms Programming

2 months ago 102.1K views 0 shares

Why spend hours implementing a Least Recently Used cache algorithm when someone else already did the hard work? Modern problems require modern solutions - specifically, the import statement. The face says it all: "You want me to reinvent the wheel? In this economy?" Nothing captures the essence of professional development quite like knowing when to code and when to leverage existing libraries. Work smarter, not harder... unless it's an interview, then pretend you'd totally write it from scratch at work.

Technical Interview Vs Actual Job

Programming Algorithms StackOverflow Debugging Testing

2 months ago 97.3K views 2 shares

Ah, the classic bait and switch of tech hiring. You show up to the interview in your fancy suit (Tom from Tom & Jerry), answering questions about red-black trees and time complexity while sweating through your bow tie. Then six months later, you're in the trenches (buff Jerry), sleep-deprived, debugging legacy code written by someone who clearly hated humanity, chugging coffee at 2 AM because production is down and somehow it's your fault. The algorithm questions? Haven't used that knowledge once. But hey, at least you can tell your friends you're a "software engineer" while you're actually just Stack Overflow's most loyal customer.

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