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The job market's really out here giving junior devs the full Dark Souls experience. Four rounds of technical interviews, a take-home project that would take a senior dev a week, and then... *crickets*. The absolute exhaustion of putting your soul into yet another application only to be ghosted is perfectly captured here. The best part? Companies still wondering why they can't find "qualified candidates" while their ATS automatically rejects anyone without 5 years experience in a framework that's 3 years old. At this point, junior devs aren't even mad anymore—just tired in their bones.

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Content Jens Ravens JensRavens Replying to tiangolo Last year I got rejected during a job interview for "not understanding" the concepts of a certain iOS library. What the interviewer didn't know: I wrote that thing. I actually had a lot of fun during that interview "

That proud moment when you're showing off your janky code that somehow passes all the tests despite being held together with duct tape and prayers. "It ain't much and it doesn't work" is basically the unofficial motto of every production codebase I've ever maintained. The farmer's honest simplicity perfectly captures that mix of shame and weird pride when you know your solution is terrible but hey—it shipped on time!

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