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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.
