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UncleOxidant on Jan 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Job Hunting in 2022

This right here. If there are more and more of us who do just fine in an actual engineering job but need beta-blockers or other anxiolytics just to make it through an intense set of interviews maybe something's broken with the hiring process?

mattgreenrocks on Jan 21, 2023 [–]

And yet it persists, unfortunately. The amount of signal gleaned from these is very low, and they’re still super common.

Kind of says something about the amount of cultural sway technologists actually have.

epicureanideal on Jan 21, 2023 | [–]

Exactly. If there were ever truly a tech talent shortage it wouldn’t be this way.

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