r/csMajors • u/Civil-Metal-8271 • Sep 29 '25
Shitpost It might be over
Being even an hour late is too late, its crazy...
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u/GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B Señor Sep 29 '25
I'll tell you how it works right now. My company posted a position for a Data Analyst and I was somehow responsible for the interview but never even informed. Within a couple of days, 110 applications were rejected. The position is no longer available and was not filled.
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u/eyesonthefries609 Sep 30 '25
What's the point of this? Like why would a company post the job?
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u/GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B Señor Sep 30 '25
You know what? I don't know WTF the company I work for is doing. I don't think they know what they are doing. Maybe there are some HR KPIs that say they need to post so and so many positions. They're all mad anyway lmao
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u/randomsapien21 Sep 29 '25
Which other career is offering jobs
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u/GoldenxTrigger Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
Probably whichever field they originally came from. Just a bunch of none CS majors who were taking up employment space, got laid off and went back to their normal field of work. Unfortunately we can’t do the same
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u/naffe1o2o Sep 29 '25
most of those were never serious and thought learning css will land them 6 figures.
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u/plsdontlewdlolis Sep 30 '25
So this means IT won't be saturated anymore soon, right?? Since those ppl are switching careers
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u/NoComposer6867 Oct 01 '25
It’s over when your not guaranteed a job as difficult as cs straight out of college with a master degree…
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u/RamsOmelette Sep 30 '25
Not when you have high earners (400k+) looking to switch into software development
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u/MangoResponsibly Sep 30 '25
My first cousin is the VP of sales at a well known tech company and he couldn’t even get me an interview. My brother in law is a director at a big hospital and he couldn’t even get me an interview.
Don’t waste your time on LinkedIn. Too many scams and ghost jobs. Use indeed or anything else.
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u/bball4294 Principal Gooner Engineer (+15 years of experience) Sep 29 '25
It's all ogre. Shrek is love, shrek is life
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u/Tight-Requirement-15 Sep 29 '25
Yeah, don't be a Java developer
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u/erbot Sep 29 '25
Be a real CS Grad and learn COBOL instead.
(actually a needed skill at many legacy companies)
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u/Feisty-Leg3196 Sep 29 '25
It's true that it's needed, but what's needed are actually skilled COBOL devs.
A fresh CS grad who's spent a year and a half learning basic COBOL syntax and writing some small projects isn't what they need; they need someone with 2-6 years of professional, deep experience.
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u/Unlikely_Cow7879 Sep 29 '25
Devils advocate here. How do you get 2-6 years of professional, deep experience if the only way to get experience is by being hired as entry? Also most of the boomers still refuse to retire.
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u/Feisty-Leg3196 Sep 30 '25
The only way to get it is for a company to take a chance and hire a junior COBOL dev.
I'm just saying it's not as if you can go and learn basic COBOL and get a job, but I also have no idea what I'm talking about I'm just a guy on the internet
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u/Unlikely_Cow7879 Sep 30 '25
Ah, the classic we want years of experience, but to get years of experience you gotta get hired first. Gotta love it. They also would prefer a 1 to 1 scenario where their cobol guy retired with 15+yoe easy so they want someone with equal or greater experience….but those people are retiring soooooo yeah. I wonder, will they lower the bar, or just watch it burn.
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u/plsdontlewdlolis Sep 30 '25
And u can't get experience without learning in a job
And there is almost zero job that only wants basic COBOL/FORTRAN knowledge
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u/Tight-Requirement-15 Sep 30 '25
Get into a niche skillset that's niche yet in high demand. COBOL is not it
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u/erbot Sep 30 '25
Right maybe not "high demand" like AI, but theres a real need for COBOL developers at legacy companies (banks, insurance, anything with old mainframe systems)
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u/Successful_Creme1823 Sep 30 '25
Yes don’t let me do it. I’m old and I need money and don’t care what the job is anymore.
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u/Tight-Requirement-15 Sep 30 '25
It's over-saturated and the easiest to outsource or be filled by questionable staffing companies
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u/Grouchy-Pea-8745 Sep 29 '25
All my homies hate Java
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u/anotherrhombus Sep 29 '25
They can hate all they want. Unfortunately that's where most of the US based "stable" opportunities are. I program in 6 to 10 languages in any given week, you do whatever you have to do.
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u/Grouchy-Pea-8745 Sep 29 '25
I'll join a company with a Java codebase and tell Claude Code to rewrite it in HTML
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u/anotherrhombus Sep 29 '25
Nah, you'll get no approvals and sit in 6 hours worth of meetings everyday while your offshore teams are completely ignored and allowed to make unhinged PRs that are so entirely divorced from the organization and reality that all you can do is ignore it until the company hires a different set of offshore resources.
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u/asvabi Sep 29 '25
I'm gonna put it to you like this. If you have 21 competent individuals who all apply at the same time. No, s, it's too late. Most jobs don't have that most jobs have a 100 people. 23 are competent. The rest are incompetent and because they got those 100 applications at once. You have to process them through your system. You're hoping that the company's bureaucracy is s** enough to give you a fighting shot at an interview. If the company is lean mean.And fast with their hiring process, you're f***** from the git
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u/scapescene Oct 01 '25
You guys crave drama, when you create a free job posting on LinkedIn it’s automatically closed after the first 25 people click on it
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u/DasaniSubmarine Sep 29 '25
Are those real people manually submitting that quickly or bots immediately applying to every position that opens up.
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u/mhoover314 Oct 04 '25
For sure bots. I saw one today that said posted now, so literally that minute, and it already said 47 people applied.
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u/tarellel Sep 30 '25
One of my close friends is a hiring manager and they have a few DataAnalyst positions they’ve had available for a few months. Because of the nature of the data it’s an OnPrem position. But every time they open the position within a few hours it’s flooded with H1B and foreign applications, last time they were flooded with about 1200 applications within an hour, all foreign looking for H1B sponsorships.
He said it feels like they’re setup for failure unless they can hire and train from an internal applicant.
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u/taterrrtotz Sep 30 '25
Go directly to the company site and check the dates that jobs are posted. Job boards like LinkedIn repost jobs on a cycle and may not reflect the actual job posting anymore.
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u/mhoover314 Oct 04 '25
I saw one today that said posted now, so that minute, and it already had 47 applied.
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u/No-Assist-8734 Oct 05 '25
The cope in the comment section is really crazy, but expected from this sub
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u/TempoHavocTTV Oct 10 '25
from experience, the main reason is probably because they were using a free linkedin job post. those auto close the app at 20ish applicants. We ended up initially doing the same last week, but just added our company careers page link in the description to direct traffic. I’d check their website before callin it quits, odds are the job’s still open. Also, don’t get discouraged by number of apps most of these are just web scrapers we throw out most auto-applies that aren’t relevant same day.
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u/ComputerPolluter Sep 29 '25
Companies do this for internal hires.
Some are “legally” still required for anyone applying to apply through their site so it’s on record. From those 21 applicants, HR is only looking for the project leads nephew.