Oh God Iam Good

You spent three weeks polishing your resume, another week on your portfolio, survived seven rounds of interviews including the "culture fit" chat with someone who definitely wasn't going to be your manager, and then some guy who knows a guy gets the job because they played beer pong together in college. Turns out all those LeetCode problems and that Master's degree can't compete with "Yeah, I know him. He's cool." Networking beats credentials faster than a segfault crashes your program. The hiring manager doesn't even look at your killer CV when there's a warm introduction sitting in their inbox. Welcome to tech hiring, where the qualifications are made up and the points don't matter.

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Junior dev gets promoted to senior. Senior gives encouraging push. Junior immediately plummets off a cliff into the void because nobody mentioned the promotion comes with zero guidance, impossible expectations, and the sudden realization that Stack Overflow doesn't have answers for "how to architect an entire system while mentoring three juniors and attending 47 meetings per week." The last panel is particularly brutal—someone from above casually tosses down "tutorials" while the newly-minted senior is already in freefall past a maze of conflicting tech stacks, legacy code, and what appears to be actual cobwebs. Classic sink-or-swim corporate mentorship strategy. Training wheels come off real fast when that title change hits your email signature.

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