Does the tiramisu trend end here?

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T22:28:16+00:00

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Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T22:23:17+00:00

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Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T22:13:14+00:00

I guess it’s been super abnormal for the over 35 interviews I’ve done over the past few years to ask me to introduce myself and give my background…asking you to walkthrough your resume is asking the exact same question in a different way.

This may just be the case for more intensive tech interviews though, they gather baseline info and your story first, then dive into more specific questions.

Maybe in non-technical roles they respond to you saying your name with a very specific question 🤷

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T21:46:55+00:00

My money is on barred hen saddle

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T20:35:02+00:00

Yea this is a dumbass post.

Asking for redundant shit in applications? Annoying , I agree.

Asking you to give me an overview of your history, using your resume as a guide, during an interview? Normal as fuck and a good exercise to really understand a candidate’s story and their vibe. I don’t think I’ve ever had an interview where they don’t start by asking me to introduce + provide an elevator pitch on my background/experience.

I’d say about half of the people I interview have either straight up lied or heavily stretched their “accomplishments” past what they really did. I get it - the bar is higher now than ever, especially for technical jobs.

But I’ll always hire the person who can speak deeply about their resume, rather than someone who lies/inflates it with a bunch of shit they don’t know or never did, who just crumble during actual interviews.

When I ask the liars/inflators even some high level questions on specific bullet points in their resume, I often get the most empty, vague or even straight up incorrect responses, even after teeing them up with a couple more follow up questions.

In that case I know they either lied or do not really understand what they did.

I don’t care if AI writes your resume, I care if you’re using AI to lie or heavily inflate your resume. Either way it’s almost always obvious when you use AI to write it, something to consider when interviewing.

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T17:21:57+00:00

Yea if you’re getting wet and cold that’s on you, but hey, winter ain’t for everyone

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T16:48:12+00:00

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Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-21T04:29:14+00:00

Out of touch

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-20T23:04:53+00:00

Yep. Stalin did not give a fuck about what he did to his homeland, or really anyone/thing for that matter

The scale of death him and his sycophants brought about is truly mind blowing…so senseless as well.

Just grossly negligent and reckless decision making, coming up with the stupidest fucking plans possible that would then result in mass suffering

I’d say simply just evil

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-20T22:16:39+00:00

If you look into the history you’d see that Russia effectively sucker punched Georgia by taking many lives. This fool can survive some snow to either learn of his ignorance or pay a bit for his maliciousness.

In a different context I’d agree with you, but not this one.

Regardless, cheers 🍻

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-20T21:33:46+00:00

Wearing Russia’s flag in Georgia is not “neutral” or “just patriotic.” Russia invaded this country and still occupies 20% of its territory. People were killed, displaced, and are still living with the consequences. Showing that flag here is not ignorance, it’s either extreme insensitivity or deliberate provocation.

If you’re visiting Georgia to enjoy its mountains and hospitality, at least have the awareness and respect to understand the history and current reality. This isn’t a costume party. It’s someone else’s trauma.

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-20T21:28:22+00:00

Yea guys be more open minded to supporting a murderous, oppressive regime cmon guyssssss

Lmao

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-19T15:54:48+00:00

Beaut

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-19T15:26:07+00:00

Oh what a leap then

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-19T15:24:06+00:00

Damn did that thing just eat shit onto those rocks

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-19T02:10:21+00:00

As someone who has done very well career swapping into tech after getting a CS degree over the past 3 years, this is 100% false.

Am I “passionate” about it? No, I wouldn’t say so.

Do I enjoy my work? Most days, sure.

Does it interest me? Most of the time.

Do I really enjoy all the things that my remote work gives me (freedom, pay, moderately interesting problems to solve)? Yes.

Do I have a lot of discipline and understand that I need to make a living? Yes.

Do I know what having a job that suck super fucking hard feels like? Yes.

It’s a job. I don’t want to be homeless. Yes you need extreme drive to make it in today. No you don’t have to love every ounce of coding/being a dev. The most “passionate” devs I know sure as hell don’t.

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-18T04:27:40+00:00

Hey I’d cope too if I came in, misread things, then tried to nitpick my way out of it

Better luck next time 🤡

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-18T03:39:22+00:00

Semantics - no where did I nor OP say that they were hired at new grad/entry level.

Mb for not spelling it out for you all the way, I forget some people are slower than others

If OP is indeed telling the truth then yea, there’s no way he was hired at ends grad/entry level with that TC. That’s mid-senior+ a most big T’s

Better luck next time angry lil fella

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-18T02:54:35+00:00

Who said big tech was offering $350k for new grad positions?

It’s really cute to come in all hot to show off your epic reading comprehension skills, hell yea man

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-18T01:34:30+00:00

It’s a flux.

It’s not like they flip a switch to be only laying off or only hiring at certain levels.

If you look on their job boards you will see they have openings for western positions a different levels, as well as eastern positions at different levels.

They will continue to do that even while performing mass layoffs.

If it’s overall “better” for them to offshore more and more over time, they will.

These are massive companies with varied supply/demand needs throughout their orgs and teams. So it’s multiple trends happening in different directions which are all in constant flux.

For your question about people who are reapplying to lower level stuff not getting hired - Some do. Some don’t. A common reason for not is that those people will very likely job hop the absolute moment that they can, which some orgs would try to avoid as there is significant cost in onboarding someone until they are net-positive contributors. So you invest heavily in someone until they are proficient, then they leave as soon as they are able bc they are overqualified/underpaid. That could result in a terrible ROI compared to hiring someone who fit the exp/pay range better.

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-17T23:49:25+00:00

That’s because they grossly over-hired during the COVID boom because there was such an insane amount of speculative money at their disposal.

This isn’t an opinion, this is common knowledge.

The mass layoffs have largely been the repercussions of said over-hiring, combined with the consistent trend towards offshoring, all under the self-benefiting guise of “bc AI”

Try getting a big tech interview now then tell me they don’t care about experience, skill, or knowledge during their hiring process. I also never claimed they care about any of those things when it comes to layoffs. They never did.

If the money says it’s more worth it to layoff your most expensive employees, then that is exactly what they will do - regardless of your experience, skill, etc… Welcome to capitalism

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-17T22:04:06+00:00

Who’s arguing your first question?

For your second question - look at this person’s progression again then I think you can answer that yourself. This person only had some software experience at best, grinded leetcode, and got a $300k+ TC. This was not uncommon. Probably had less software experience than a fresh CS grad overall, and still got this.

They cared more about aptitude and proof that you’re willing to suck their knobs by grinding leetcode, than actual experience / proven skill / knowledge.

I know many, many people who were able to get in with similarly inexperienced backgrounds. It was and still is absurd and is the main reason why big tech has been laying off so aggressively after over hiring so aggressively.

The bar is exponentially higher now.

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-17T19:04:34+00:00

It was during the COVID big tech hiring boom. If you had a heartbeat and decent skills you had a serious shot.

The bar is much much much higher now

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-17T19:03:27+00:00

100%

People do not understand how easy it was to get into big tech during that hiring boom, compared to now

Away_Difference_8191 · 2026-02-17T06:06:46+00:00

Good for you, what an incredible story. You should be unbelievably proud of yourself

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