Why Is It So Hard

Oh, you thought getting a job was supposed to be a normal human experience? WRONG. Welcome to the programmer hiring gauntlet where companies have decided that a simple "can you code?" is too pedestrian. Instead, you get to navigate an Olympic-level obstacle course complete with: a screening call where you awkwardly explain your GitHub for 30 minutes, an algorithmic interview where you're expected to reverse a binary tree while someone watches you sweat, an architecture interview where you design Netflix from scratch on a whiteboard, and a behavioral interview where you pretend you've never had a single conflict with a coworker in your entire life. Meanwhile, literally EVERY other profession gets to just... send a resume and have a conversation like civilized humans? The audacity! The drama! The unnecessary complexity of it all! And after surviving this circus of chaos, they hit you with "sorry, we went with someone else." Absolutely unhinged.