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Can You Tell Me Your Salary Expectations?

Can You Tell Me Your Salary Expectations?
The AUDACITY of HR to ask about salary expectations after you've spent 17 hours grinding through LeetCode hell! 😱 There you are, shell-shocked like Plankton, having survived algorithmic torture and system design nightmares, only to face the REAL boss battle: naming your price. Your brain just blue-screens because—plot twist—you were so convinced you'd fail that you never bothered to research market rates! Now you're frantically calculating numbers while simultaneously trying not to look like a desperate fool who would accept payment in exposure and free snacks. The technical interview was NOTHING compared to this psychological warfare!

The LeetCode Dunce Cap

The LeetCode Dunce Cap
The CS grad showing up to the party like a socially awkward wizard because nobody at school taught them the real interview skills. While everyone's socializing, they're silently judging people for not grinding LeetCode. Fun fact: some companies are actually moving away from algorithm puzzles because they realized real-world programming is more about dealing with legacy code and crying in the bathroom than inverting binary trees.

Dynamic Programming Cooks Everyone

Dynamic Programming Cooks Everyone
Oh. My. GOD. You're SAILING through the interview, answering every question like the coding GENIUS you are, when suddenly the interviewer drops the D-bomb - DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING! 😱 Your brain immediately freezes like a Windows 98 machine trying to run Cyberpunk. That thousand-yard stare? It's the universal signal of a developer whose confidence just plummeted faster than a production server during a demo. Dynamic programming is that special kind of algorithmic TORTURE where you break down problems into sub-problems, but the only thing actually breaking down is YOUR WILL TO LIVE. Fibonacci sequences? Knapsack problems? More like "watch me sweat through my shirt" problems!

It's The Most Important Skill

It's The Most Important Skill
Finally, a candidate with the courage to list the skill we all depend on but pretend not to use. While the rest of us write "proficient in algorithm optimization" on our resumes, this legend just wrote "googling." The honesty is refreshing. I've been in this industry for 15 years and still spend half my day asking search engines to fix my broken code. At least this guy won't waste time pretending he memorized the entire documentation.

Alternate Business Of LeetCode

Alternate Business Of LeetCode
When your technical interview prep feels like protection against getting completely screwed by the industry. These LeetCode condoms are the perfect metaphor for what the platform actually does - gives you a false sense of security while the algorithm problems still manage to f*ck you anyway. At least now you can say "I was prepared" while crying in the rejection email corner.

The Great Developer Detour

The Great Developer Detour
Ah, the classic flight path of a developer's career. Top panel: "Sure, I'll learn any programming language, no problem!" *airplane flies straight toward destination*. Bottom panel: *immediate U-turn* "Wait, you mentioned algorithms and data structures?" The confidence of saying you'll learn Python disappears faster than free pizza at a standup meeting when someone mentions Big O notation. Suddenly that flight needs to make an emergency landing back at Tutorial Island.

The Algorithm Apocalypse: 500 Problems, Zero Jobs

The Algorithm Apocalypse: 500 Problems, Zero Jobs
Someone's keyboard F key is clearly working fine because they just dropped a massive F-bomb on DSA (Data Structures & Algorithms). The rage is palpable—solving 500 leetcode problems only to end up jobless with a broken keyboard is the tech equivalent of training for the Olympics and then tripping on your shoelaces during the opening ceremony. What's hilarious is the stark contrast between academic coding interviews ("implement zigzag BFS") and actual job requirements ("fix this button" or "why API broken?"). It's like being trained to perform heart surgery but then getting hired to apply band-aids. The broken English just makes it more authentic—like reading the frustrated diary of every international developer who's been put through the algorithmic meat grinder only to discover the real job is mostly Stack Overflow searches and crying quietly in the bathroom.

Shepherds Of Stack Overflow

Shepherds Of Stack Overflow
Let's be honest—without IDE autocomplete saving us from our goldfish memory and the ability to frantically Google syntax while switching between five languages in a single day, most of us would be herding actual sheep instead of code sheep. The meme perfectly captures that existential dread moment when you realize your entire career is propped up by tools that hide your technical inadequacies. The dark figure lurking in the background? That's the fear of having to code on a whiteboard during an interview.

Sometimes It Feels Like My Brain Has A Mind Of Its Own

Sometimes It Feels Like My Brain Has A Mind Of Its Own
Brain during study: Focused scholar surrounded by equipment, ready to absorb complex algorithms and design patterns. Brain during coding interview: "Jorg Washingmachine." Your memory buffer apparently undergoes a complete garbage collection the moment you need to recall anything useful. Happens to the best of us. Just smile and nod while your brain frantically tries to remember if arrays are zero-indexed.

It Don't Matter Post Interview

It Don't Matter Post Interview
The classic interview flex that falls completely flat. Interns strutting into interviews like they've conquered Mount Everest because they've solved some LeetCode problems, while Senior Developers couldn't care less about your algorithmic trophy collection. That 2000+ rating might impress your CS buddies, but in the trenches of production code, nobody's asking you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard at 3PM during a server meltdown. Real developers know that your ability to Google error messages and not break the build is worth ten times more than your fancy LeetCode rating.

After Five Rounds Of Interviews

After Five Rounds Of Interviews
Surviving five rounds of technical interviews only to be stumped by the salary question is peak tech industry absurdity. You've memorized sorting algorithms, explained microservices architecture, and built a binary tree on a whiteboard—but somehow pricing your own worth feels like dividing by zero. The real technical challenge was never the coding questions; it was figuring out how to ask for enough money without scaring them away but also not leaving $40k on the table because you said a number too quickly. Next time just respond with "SELECT MAX(salary) FROM your_other_employees WHERE experience = mine;"

I Really Wish I Could

I Really Wish I Could
The modern tech interview process in one painful frame. Looking at those shooting stars and wishing for the impossible – passing a coding interview without spending months memorizing obscure tree traversal algorithms that you'll never use in the actual job. Ten years of experience? Great! Now reverse this linked list while I watch you sweat. Meanwhile, the actual job is 90% googling how to center a div and wondering why your production code suddenly stopped working after a dependency updated by one minor version.