[tiew9Vii]

It looks like junior developer applies for junior roles, companies don't want juniors, insert "we want at least 10 years experience in [insert latest fad]". Of the two companies she got face time with, one took the chance, is happy with the skills and deemed her competent as passed the three month probation.

The job market is broken. Half these companies flex their own egos in the interviews/hiring, make you jump through so many hoops with ridiculous tests detached from the reality of your day to day work. Then if you actually pass and start the job, the standard and quality of work is mediocre at best and you realise what a shit show it actually is.

[trod1234]

> The job market is broken.

There's no real job market left, its become so distorted from financial engineering that its basically all collapsing without anyone seeing the objective reality until its too late.

> Then if you actually pass and start the job, the standard and quality of work is mediocre at best and you realize what a shit show it actually is.

This is what happens when costs exceed pay, and there being no choices in a non-market. The most competent have options and will withdraw when costs exceed pay. They value their minds and sanity more than the work which isn't available.

This is why within two years of adverse disruption in industry most workers gets severe brain drain. You normally have intelligent and competent people on a team bringing everyone around them up, but when they leave, you basically get what you see with government work where it gravitates to negative production value because anyone working too much is making everyone else look bad.

A lot of this was predicted back in the 1930s by economists.

[johnnyanmac]

s/competent/comfortable. There is some correlation, but The smartest person still needs to pay rent, and these systems are not finding him. Better to be rich and incompetent in times like this.