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by checkcircuits 1191 days ago
The fact my company turns down over 80 applications a week and only 1/5 of the accepted applicants make it through the first interview tells me you're wrong. It's only an easy meal ticket if you're deluded. Highly motivated, hungry, individuals are not the usual candidate. The usual candidate is a code school graduate who got tricked by an influencer into spending 18k for a moonshot.