The CS Education Difficulty Curve

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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;"

The ultimate self-service experience. Nothing quite like the pride of a tester who discovers they can fix their own bugs instead of filing a ticket and waiting six sprints for someone to look at it. That dog walking itself is basically QA saying "Fine, I'll do it myself" after the third time a dev responded with "works on my machine." The circle of software development life.

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