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Connections > Competence

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.

Referral Got Me The Job No Lie

Referral Got Me The Job No Lie
The tech hiring process in its purest form! You've got the top candidate with a killer CV, relevant experience, excellent interviewing skills, pixel-perfect portfolio, and a Master's degree... then there's the person who got hired because they knew someone on the inside. No amount of fancy algorithms on your GitHub or perfectly normalized database designs can compete with the O(1) complexity of "my buddy Dave works there." The real system design interview is figuring out who to befriend at FAANG companies during college.

The Ultimate Tech Job Cheat Code

The Ultimate Tech Job Cheat Code
BEHOLD! The tech industry's greatest cheat code! 🎮 You can spend YEARS perfecting your CV, collecting degrees like Pokémon cards, and building a portfolio so beautiful it would make Michelangelo weep... OR you can just know Dave from accounting who will slide your resume to the hiring manager while they're both microwaving fish in the break room. THE AUDACITY! The sheer INJUSTICE of watching someone with "a buddy that works at the company" absolutely DEMOLISH your meticulously crafted career preparation! Referrals are the tech industry's version of using a Game Genie while the rest of us are button-mashing through the application tracking system like PEASANTS! 💀