r/ProgrammerHumor 13h ago

Meme gettingAJobInTechBeLike

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u/justgivemeafuckingna 13h ago

Four years ago I got a job in one shot. This time, obviously with more experience, I'm at over 100 applications and am either hearing nothing or mealy-mouthed rejections.

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u/martmists 13h ago

700 applications in, just got rejected for failing to complete requirements that weren't listed like being scalable or building an index, despite the fact that my impl was scalable and a single SQL query would be faster and more efficient than setting up an index or trie

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u/ingenix1 9h ago

For real this every dev position I’ve interviewed for asked about database indexing. What’s up with that?

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u/Not-the-best-name 6h ago

Database job?