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by tnel77 222 days ago
In this job market, how am I supposed to get hired without the latest buzzwords on my resume? I can’t just have monolithic server and Postgres!

(Sarcasm)

2 comments

You're sarcastic, but heavens above, have I had some cringe interviews in my last round of interviews, and most of the absurdity came from smaller start-ups too
Indicating sarcasm ruins the sarcasm
Sadly, it is missed on a lot of people. Without the disclaimer, I would then have a bunch of serious replies “educating” me about my life choices.
Squint or pretend it’s not there. This crowd is hit or miss on picking it up o’ naturál.
If you don't make it clear people will think you're serious.

Sarcasm doesn't work online, If I write something like "Donald Trump is the best president ever" you don't have any way of knowing whether I'm being sarcastic or I'm just really really stupid. Only people who know me can make that judgement, and basically nobody on here knows me. So I either have to avoid sarcasm or make it clear that I'm being sarcastic.

Context of the comment would tell