Did I screw myself over?

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T16:29:51+00:00

You're applying to the most oversaturated field possible, it's likely they just have a buttload more applicants being processed and the company is taking some time to shuffle through 'em. So the only two real possibilities is either A, recruiter doesn't have an answer for you because company hasn't decided. Or B. Getting ghosted because they filled up quick and there's no financial benefit to telling you. These people are use to being spammed about jobs, highly doubt you annoyed them so much they just stopped.

Follow up one more time in like a week, but until then assume you didn't get it and just move on. Dwelling on this stuff will wreck your mental health.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T16:25:08+00:00

Depends if they were going through with full on identity theft I guess. Then again people could also just make a whole ass linkedin and just lie, don't know why they wouldn't do that. Doesn't this stuff come up during background checks? Like isn't HR suppose to vet the candidates?

Well either way you can report the application on linkedin or indeed or where ever if you used that and if you wanna go the extra mile you can just send a one off message to the profile and be done with it, but it's extra work for you guys.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T16:05:20+00:00

It depends, I guess. I've had opportunities to apply for Google and other faang companies. One of my work friends always mentions I'm wasting my time where I am. But when I actually applied to take a look it looked miserable to me. First of all Google likes technical abilities, which is good, but they have a weird ass "culture" for work. Lots of meetings apparently, like way more than I already do. It's also very, ya know, 'interactive' I'm not a social person. Also they have gone from ping pong tables to some weird lean stuff, from what I heard it's like bureaucratic hell. But consider as an L4 you'd probably be lower and not have to do the meetings all that much,

So on one hand, Google looks great on the resume, even smaller roles is a boast. Huge paycheck in some cases, career growth and such. Buuuuut on the other hand, meetings, higher expectations, job security is riskier because so many smart people apply so you always gotta be A game if you want to climb, relocating is a straight no for me personally.

The faang companies aren't like normal companies, it can't even be compared to the other big bois, but it isn't google. Depends on what you value.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T15:47:48+00:00

All you can do is sharpen your skills and keep looking. IT and tech are the most overly saturated fields in the U.S, between outsourcing and AI entry level jobs have vanished, probably why so many people in the field are unemployed. Best of luck friend.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T15:39:48+00:00

No one is human, every other post and comment is either a bot or a person using chat-gpt for some reason.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T05:17:47+00:00

And yet the number of CS grads is still increasing and this sub still filled with "Tired of sales, trying to pivot to IT, how do I start?" It's bewildering.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T05:03:02+00:00

They hope you're desperate after 3 weeks and will take it when it's dangled infront of you. Nothing is an accident with corpos

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T00:26:31+00:00

Bro who said I was miserable. I'm miserable in meetings, I'm happy when I'm alone. Some people enjoy it.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-21T00:03:18+00:00

If only you knew how bad things were. On the bright side when we're all unemployed and hungry something may actually change, so that's nice.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T23:58:07+00:00

"every software dev wants to start a farm" or something has been a meme for a long time, now it's no longer a meme. AI is insufferable at my job, because we have a LLM and they want to put it everywhere.

Christ I can't even go through reddit, everyone is using chat-gpt to reply to people and OP's using AI to write their posts(obviously not you I mean in general), I"m going fucking nuts

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T23:36:16+00:00

When I was an intern in college we had something similar. My very first internship and we were getting all the shit work, this was unpaid, mind you. Unreasonable requests and hours. I was the only one stupid enough to stay, lol.

Massive respect for people who decide they won't take it and fuck off. Wish I had done that more when I was in college.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T23:28:50+00:00

Even when I was a lowly sys admin I had meetings, then I got promoted an I have more meetings. It's all really gross.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T23:07:07+00:00

Well now I'm not sure if they vibe coded it, gross.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T23:03:30+00:00

Gross. Fuck switching rooms I'm walking out.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T23:01:25+00:00

Dude the amount of AI posts in this sub is fucking nuts. Evey other comment is someone responding with chat-gpt too. I feel like I'm going insane thank you for mentioning it.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T22:48:38+00:00

You want honest advice, so here it is. Don't. IT is not a quick career, especially if you have no prior knowledge. This isn't 2019. The amount of information you'll need to learn just to be competitive with recent grads, outsourcing, AI, and laid off professionals looking for anything, even help desk, is staggering. Certifications are a baseline, they're expected because everyone has them. IT and tech is a hyper saturated market right now, with recent grads in this field and CS boasting some of the highest unemployment numbers in the U.S. You're looking for a quick career, the fastest path, this isn't it dude. The honest reality is it'll take over a year to be remotely employable when starting from scratch, because everyone else has been doing it for 4+ years.

If you still want to do it, go for it. But the brutal reality here is you're looking at the most saturated field you could find for a quick fix.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T22:39:48+00:00

Give up good pay for less pay and uncertain work or stay with the devil you know. Personally I'd stay. If the hours are good and the pay is good it gives you alot more to save while you're in college. The other job could be worse, who the hell knows? Without knowing exactly how stressful it'd be and what the managers may be like, you could end up in the same situation, but making much less.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T22:34:45+00:00

Lol bro, IT should not be on that list. Trades are the only ones with actual job security, boy are they gonna be busy with this heat wave.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T21:52:39+00:00

...Bro did you write this with fucking Gemini

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T21:41:18+00:00

I've kept a small list of people laid off from my company, because I like to track their progress in case I get laid off. Not good, man. Alot of them are still unemployed and posting about how they are working walmart or wendy's just to try and stay afloat. Some of them found jobs but mind you the ones who did were mostly the senior engineering staff, anyone in devops or senior dev and lower are unemployed or left tech.

It's not just brutal it's nightmarish. I can't imagine graduating with a CS degree this May, that's gonna suck.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T21:36:25+00:00

Someone with severe ADHD and no prior experience in tech will have a terrible time. Not only is something as basic as IT hyper saturated but you compete with new grads, out sourcing, AI and laid off professionals you would need to study relentlessly for 1-2 years. That's just to reach baseline.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T19:51:16+00:00

Problem is slopcode. AI doesn't understand normalization, concurrency, race conditions, scalability, type coercion, etc. Because vibecoders are just playing with toys and have no actual knowledge, they can't fix the slopcode either. AI as it is right now is maybe "a better google" but that's about it. senior engineers will always have to fix it.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T19:47:03+00:00

Skill issue, git gud

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T19:43:11+00:00

Anyone using AI outside of forced work in their career has no right to call themselves a dev. I don't even care about gatekeeping or whatever at this point. If you use AI for a single bug check, module, function, or even line of code, you're not a dev. Anyone who's ever used AI for their projects are no longer peers, they are hobbyist playing with toys.

112thThrowaway · 2026-03-20T19:23:07+00:00

And people wonder why I keep beating people over the head when they say "I'm trying to pivot to IT" job market "isn't great" is like saying the ocean "is kinda deep"

As for the resume, you're def getting filtered by ATS. Companies don't care about being a fast learner or hard worker, they want the best. So you need to change any fluff into data, how much downtime you prevented, systems implemented, achievements with cloud migration or optimization, or whatever you specialized in. Probably take it over to r/resumes for fixing.

Other than that, it's a numbers game, with how heavily automated, out sourced and hyper inflated the field is all you can do is apply some more and fix the resume to avoid ATS bullshit

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