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No Way This Is How Ads For Programmers Are
Programming AI Algorithms Debugging
13 days ago 183.9K views 0 shares
No Way This Is How Ads For Programmers Are
Behold, the final form of tech recruitment marketing! Some poor soul manually grinding LeetCode problems with a frowny face, checkmarks for "Shitty job," "No money," and "No girlfriend" versus the mythical "Chad" who outsources his algorithmic suffering to an AI tool and magically acquires a "FAANG job," "$600k total comp," and "Two girlfriends." Because clearly, the only thing standing between you and beach-lounging with multiple romantic partners is... *checks notes*... not solving merge sort by hand? The desperation in this ad is so thick you could debug it with a breakpoint.

The Ultimate Tech Career Fast Track
Programming
15 days ago 149.2K views 0 shares
The Ultimate Tech Career Fast Track
The secret sauce to tech wealth finally revealed! Following the standard progression of salary increases through job hopping and raises for years 1-3, but then—PLOT TWIST—getting absolutely demolished by a Google commuter bus in year 4 for that sweet $35.67M lawsuit payout. Forget grinding leetcode or building side projects... just position yourself strategically near Google's transportation routes and practice your "ouch" face. Silicon Valley career acceleration hack they don't teach you in bootcamp!

Crying All The Way To The Bank
Programming Agile
16 days ago 101.0K views 0 shares
Crying All The Way To The Bank
The daily ritual of software engineers: Complain about deadlines, legacy code, and micromanagement while simultaneously wiping tears with six-figure salaries. The beautiful duality of being paid extremely well to suffer through meetings that could've been emails. Sure, the codebase is a nightmare and the PM keeps changing requirements, but have you seen the direct deposit notification? Sweet, sweet compensation therapy.

Crying All The Way To The Bank
Programming Agile
24 days ago 132.5K views 0 shares
Crying All The Way To The Bank
The classic dev paradox: crying about impossible deadlines, legacy codebases, and micromanaging PMs while simultaneously clutching a fat stack of cash. Sure, we're miserable, but at least we're miserable with good compensation. It's like therapy, except instead of paying someone to listen to your problems, you get paid to create new ones.

Knowing What To Copy Is The Real Tech Skill
StackOverflow Webdev Programming Debugging
1 month ago 179.2K views 1 shares
Knowing What To Copy Is The Real Tech Skill
The eternal dance of modern development summed up in one perfect Quora response. Sure, copying code from StackOverflow costs $1, but knowing which code won't burn your production server to the ground? That's the $100,000/year expertise right there. The real engineering isn't in typing semicolons—it's having the battle scars to recognize which GitHub gist will solve your problem versus which one will have you debugging until 4am while questioning your career choices.

What High-Salaried Programmers Really Buy
Programming Webdev Hardware
2 months ago 194.4K views 0 shares
What High-Salaried Programmers Really Buy
Normal people buy cars. Rich people buy luxury cars and helicopters. But programmers? We spend our six-figure salaries on colorful mechanical keyboards that sound like a typewriter orchestra and cost more than some people's monthly rent. The irony is that we'll debate for weeks over which $300 keyboard has the perfect tactile feedback, then write the same garbage code we would've written on a $10 keyboard from Walmart. But hey, at least our fingers feel fancy while creating those runtime errors.

The Highest Paid Engineer's Dress Code
Programming Debugging
2 months ago 188.2K views 0 shares
The Highest Paid Engineer's Dress Code
OMG, the AUDACITY of this man! When you're making $400K a year, dress code becomes a mere suggestion, darling! 💅 That Hawaiian shirt and basketball shorts combo SCREAMS "I could delete the entire codebase and you'd still beg me to stay." Meanwhile, the rest of us peasants are ironing our button-ups like it'll get us a 2% raise. The higher your debugging skills, the lower your fashion standards - it's basically a law of physics at this point!

The Real MVP: Hawaiian Shirt Edition
Programming Debugging Backend
3 months ago 216.5K views 0 shares
The Real MVP: Hawaiian Shirt Edition
Ah, the legendary 10x engineer in his natural habitat—Hawaiian shirt, zero f*cks given, and probably hasn't written a line of documentation since 2012. This guy fixed that critical production bug three years ago with code so cryptic nobody dares touch it. The company keeps him around because he's the only one who understands the legacy codebase written in some obscure language he invented while drunk. Meanwhile, everyone else shows up in business casual trying to look professional while this dude rolls in looking like he's headed to a Jimmy Buffett concert after fixing your entire architecture with a one-liner.

They Did Them Dirty Here
Hardware Webdev Programming
3 months ago 169.4K views 0 shares
They Did Them Dirty Here
The UK gave us Alan Turing, Tim Berners-Lee, and the ARM architecture, yet somehow pays their developers like they're interns at a failing startup. Nothing like inventing modern computing and the World Wide Web only to reward your tech talent with salaries that barely cover a London flat share and a Tesco meal deal. The classic "we'll pay you in prestige and rainy weather" compensation package.

When Mom Reviews Your Code
Programming Debugging Testing
4 months ago 122.9K views 0 shares
When Mom Reviews Your Code
Turns out moms have been doing code reviews all along without the CS degree. "Random English words in fancy colors not aligned to the left" is honestly better feedback than half the PR comments I've received in 15 years. At least she's actually looking at the indentation instead of rubber-stamping with a "LGTM" while secretly watching YouTube in another tab. Give that woman a senior engineer title and a mechanical keyboard – she's already nailed the "questioning why anyone gets paid for this" part of the job.

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$50K A Year For Sys Admin With 7 Years Experience, LOL
Devops Networking Security Microsoft Azure
4 months ago 209.8K views 0 shares
$50K A Year For Sys Admin With 7 Years Experience, LOL
Ah, the classic tech industry paradox! A grocery store wants a sysadmin with Cisco certifications, Azure experience, VMware skills, on-call hours, AND the ability to lift 50 pounds... all for the princely sum of $23.80/hour ($49,504/year). That's like asking someone who can build a nuclear reactor to also flip the burgers at the cafeteria for minimum wage. The real cherry on top? "Occasional lifting" and "on-call weekends" - because nothing says "we value your 7+ years of specialized technical expertise" like making you haul servers around and fix the CEO's printer at 2am on a Sunday for less than what some entry-level developers make. This is the tech equivalent of "we're looking for a brain surgeon with 10 years experience who also does plumbing, for the competitive salary of whatever we found in the couch cushions."

They Call Me Senior Dev
Agile Devops Programming
4 months ago 158.4K views 0 shares
They Call Me Senior Dev
The true mark of seniority isn't writing complex algorithms or architecting scalable systems—it's the art of staying silent during meetings that could've been emails. That awkward monkey face perfectly captures the existential crisis of realizing you're paid a small fortune to occasionally unmute and say "sounds good to me" or "I'll circle back offline." The real six-figure skill? Knowing when your input adds zero value but still collecting that direct deposit. Silent wisdom is apparently worth its weight in gold.