[whstl]

Same situation on the hiring side.

I understand that people gotta hustle to eat, but we get hundreds of applications, and so many resumes are fake and just an attempt to get through the screening... plus lots of cheating, sometimes just good old ChatGPT or someone whispering behind the screen, other times with people giving perfect memorized answers but not a peep when I go off script.

Makes me want to hold on to this job...

[rhelz]

> So many resumes are fake

Its a classic vicious circle: if your resume gets auto-dinged if it doesn't have the right keywords, applicants are highly motivated do lard up their resumes with keywords.

And then the companies observe they are getting tons of bogus resumes, and they think they can fix it by making the filters even harder to get through....

Everybody is incentivized to race to the bottom.

[namaria]

I have argued a variation of this so many times before. There are a lot of feedback loops amplifying noise in software job markets. It's terrible for everyone involved.

[skeeter2020]

Same. I used to really like interviewing, but the AI cheaters combined with development as just a job has destroyed the experience. I did participate in interviewing an intern a few weeks ago who showed some passion and energy, and they got the role, so a small victory.

[timeon]

> development as just a job

Hobbists are discarded at the first pass I guess.

[whstl]

Those are much better than the hustlers.

[nytesky]

My impression is that lots of developers are now much more motivated by money than tech passion (I entered the field in the Office Space era where programmers were considered nerdy accountants who love computers).

Instead over the last 2 decades, we’ve seen the finance bro pipeline diverted to tech bros.