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Interviews Vs Reality

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.

Software Engineering Interviews

Software Engineering Interviews
Oh. My. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of tech interviews in one perfect image! ๐Ÿ˜ญ You spend WEEKS mastering how to trace an umbrella for the technical test, only to face the NIGHTMARE of carving intricate fractals during the interview. Then you get the job and what do they have you do? Draw a TRIANGLE. A LITERAL TRIANGLE. The tech industry is GASLIGHTING us, sweetie! We're out here solving theoretical binary tree inversions while the actual job is updating button colors and restarting servers. The AUDACITY! ๐Ÿ’…

Any DevOps Job Ever

Any DevOps Job Ever
The quintessential DevOps paradox! First panel: angrily complaining there's not enough coding in your job while dreaming of elegant algorithms and beautiful functions. Second panel: absolute terror when faced with actual coding tasks because you've spent the last 8 months writing YAML files and debugging Jenkins pipelines. It's like training for a marathon by exclusively eating energy bars, then being shocked when your legs don't work on race day.

Part Of The Ship, Part Of The Crew

Part Of The Ship, Part Of The Crew
Startup life in a nutshell! You sign up thinking you'll be one cog in a well-oiled machine, but three weeks in you're suddenly the entire engineering department, DevOps team, and occasional office plant waterer. Nothing says "career growth" like frantically Googling how to configure AWS while simultaneously fixing production bugs and pitching to investors. The classic startup journey: from "I'm not in the team" to "I AM the team" faster than you can say "we're pivoting our business model." The only thing missing from this meme is the haunted look in your eyes when someone asks "who's handling the database migration?"