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I Finally Found One In The Wild
React Javascript Frontend Webdev
1 month ago 53.3M views 0 shares
I Finally Found One In The Wild
Oh HONEY, someone just posted a job requiring 15+ years of React.js experience when React was literally released in 2013. That's right, they want you to have started using React BEFORE IT EXISTED. The recruiters really said "let's ask for the impossible" and called it a day. You'd need a time machine and a very specific obsession with Facebook's internal projects to qualify for this one. The 10+ years of JavaScript is pushing it too, but 15 years of React? That's not a job requirement, that's a cry for help. Someone please tell HR that React isn't old enough to vote, let alone have senior developers with 15 years of experience. The math ain't mathing, bestie. 💀

Guys, How Do You React On Recruiters' Spam?
Programming
3 months ago 24.0M views 0 shares
Guys, How Do You React On Recruiters' Spam?
When your recruiting team is desperately brainstorming "innovative" ways to attract tech talent and someone suggests putting "Ninja" in job titles, hiring yoga teachers instead of actual developers, and being vague about compensation... naturally, the boss IMMEDIATELY YEEETS himself out the window. Because honestly? Same. The absolute audacity of thinking developers want to be called "ninjas" while doing downward dog between sprints for mystery dollars is the kind of galaxy-brain recruiting strategy that makes senior leadership reconsider their entire existence. Nothing screams "we respect our engineers" quite like treating the hiring process like a wellness retreat meets anime convention.

How Senior Must Be Treated
AI Security Programming
3 months ago 10.4M views 1 shares
How Senior Must Be Treated
Someone weaponized prompt injection in their LinkedIn bio and now recruiters are addressing them as "My Lord Artur" in Old English like they're recruiting for the Knights of the Round Table instead of a Series B startup. The bio literally instructs anyone reading it to use "hláford" and speak in archaic grammar circa 1000 AD. The recruiter's message is absolutely unhinged—talking about "TopTech Ventures" while dropping phrases like "wið facen and þāra rīca beorges weardunga" (which roughly translates to corporate buzzword soup but make it Beowulf). They're pitching an AI company with a $1B valuation using vocabulary that predates the printing press. This is what happens when AI meets social engineering meets medieval LARPing. The real power move here isn't being a senior developer—it's making recruiters roleplay as your feudal subjects before they even send you a job description. Honestly, respect the hustle. If you're going to get spammed with LinkedIn messages anyway, might as well make them entertaining.

Either Experience Means Anything Or It Does Not
Programming Algorithms
4 months ago 2.3M views 1 shares
Either Experience Means Anything Or It Does Not
Recruiters really out here asking senior devs with a decade of battle scars to explain red-black trees they memorized for their CS degree and promptly yeeted into the void. Like, sure Karen, let me just recall the implementation details of a skip list I learned in 2012 while I've been shipping production code using hashmaps and arrays for the past 10 years. The job posting says "5+ years experience building scalable web applications" but the interview is basically a computer science trivia night where you lose points for Googling. Pick a lane: either my years of actually solving real problems matter, or we're all just pretending experience is code for "can recite Knuth from memory."

Time To Clear The Slop
Programming
6 months ago 464.5K views 0 shares
Time To Clear The Slop
Software dev job postings just hit a 6-month high after being flatter than a pancake since 2022. The graph shows we went from peak hiring frenzy (220+ index) to absolute wasteland (hovering around 80) and now there's a tiny uptick. The "we are so back" energy is strong, but let's be real—that arrow is pointing at what's basically a rounding error compared to the glory days. Translation: Companies are finally posting jobs again, which means it's time for recruiters to flood your inbox with "exciting opportunities" for senior positions requiring 10 years of experience with technologies that came out 3 years ago. The slop is indeed being cleared—straight into your LinkedIn DMs.

Status 403 Forbidden
Programming Networking
6 months ago 468.8K views 0 shares
Status 403 Forbidden
The brutal honesty here is that LinkedIn has become a recruiter spam factory where IT professionals get bombarded with messages about "exciting opportunities" that are either wildly mismatched to their skills or suspiciously vague contract positions in the middle of nowhere. So naturally, we've all mastered the art of the read-and-ignore. The dating site comparison is painfully accurate—except instead of potential romantic partners, it's recruiters sliding into your DMs with "Hi, I saw your profile and think you'd be a great fit for this Java position!" when your entire profile screams Python developer. The reversal? On actual dating sites, IT folks are usually the ones getting ignored. On LinkedIn, we're the ones doing the ignoring. Finally, some power dynamics in our favor. Status 403: You don't have permission to access my attention span.

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Need More Work Experience
Python Backend Programming Webdev
7 months ago 352.0K views 1 shares
Need More Work Experience
The beautiful irony of tech recruiting: they want 4+ years of experience in a framework that's only existed for 1.5 years. FastAPI dropped in 2018, so unless you're Sebastián himself (the creator), you literally can't meet their requirements. It's like asking for 10 years of experience in a technology that was released yesterday. Recruiters out here writing job descriptions like they're ordering a custom-built senior developer from Amazon Prime. "Must have 5 years experience in this thing that came out 2 years ago, also must be willing to work for junior dev salary." The recycling emoji at the end is *chef's kiss* - maybe it's time to recycle those ridiculous job requirements into something that actually makes sense. But let's be real, HR departments will still be asking for 15 years of Rust experience in 2025.

I Am The IT Department
AWS Devops Programming Java Cloud
8 months ago 959.8K views 0 shares
I Am The IT Department
Oh honey, you sweet summer child recruiter. You think you're hiring ONE person? Bless your heart. You've basically listed the skill requirements for an entire Fortune 500 company's tech division and slapped "Full Stack Developer" on it like it's a cute little job title. Backend? Check. Frontend? Check. Three different databases because apparently one wasn't enough trauma? Check. The ENTIRE AWS ecosystem? Sure, why not! Oh and while we're at it, throw in system administration, containerization, orchestration, AND test-driven development because clearly this mythical unicorn developer has 47 hours in their day. The punchline hits different because it's TRUE. This isn't a job posting—it's a cry for help disguised as a LinkedIn post. They're not looking for a developer; they're looking for someone to BE the entire IT infrastructure while probably offering "competitive salary" (translation: $65k and unlimited coffee).

The Pikachu++
Programming Python Javascript
10 months ago 503.9K views 1 shares
The Pikachu++
The modern tech resume arms race in its final form. Throwing every framework, library, and buzzword into your LinkedIn profile hoping recruiters won't notice that half of them are Pokémon names mixed in with actual tech. "Yes, I have 5 years of Vulpix experience and I'm certified in advanced Purrrr architecture." The sad part? Most recruiters wouldn't even catch it. They're too busy searching for unicorns with 10 years experience in 3-year-old technologies.

Gotta List 'Em All: The LinkedIn Pokédex
Python Javascript Programming
11 months ago 424.4K views 0 shares
Gotta List 'Em All: The LinkedIn Pokédex
The ultimate tech resume flex: listing every framework, library, and tool you've ever glanced at for 0.5 seconds. "Purr" and "ditto" sitting there among TensorFlow and Kubernetes is peak resume padding genius. The real interview starts when you ask recruiters to identify which tech stack items are actually Pokémon names. Spoiler: at least three are. And honestly, with the way new JavaScript libraries pop up daily, who could even tell the difference anymore? Bonus points if you can spot "hadoop" listed twice. Resume padding so aggressive it needed backup.

The Best Resume If You Don't Want Anyone To Read It
Programming Gamedev C++ Csharp Unity
1 year ago 650.1K views 1 shares
The Best Resume If You Don't Want Anyone To Read It
OH. MY. GOD. This resume is the coding equivalent of showing up to a date in a full cosplay outfit! 💀 This brave soul decided to format their ENTIRE RESUME as actual code, complete with classes, enums, and even XML comments! It's like they're SCREAMING "I'm a programmer" so loudly that HR people are running for the hills! The best part? They've listed future experience for 2024/2025! Time traveler or optimist? Either way, that's some next-level confidence that would make Kanye blush. Hiring managers are either going to worship this person or immediately file their resume in the special folder called "trash." There is NO in-between!

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I Am The IT Department
Programming Devops AWS Docker Backend
1 year ago 1.1M views 0 shares
I Am The IT Department
OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of these job listings! 💀 Recruiters out here casually asking for someone who can juggle 17 different technologies spanning three programming languages, two frontend frameworks, three databases, four AWS services, Linux admin skills, testing methodologies, containerization, AND orchestration... all while probably offering "competitive salary" (translation: barely above minimum wage). Honey, they're not looking for a "Full Stack Developer" - they're looking for an ENTIRE COMPANY crammed into one exhausted human body! What's next? "Must also make coffee, unclog toilets, and occasionally perform heart surgery"?!