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dowager_dan99 • 02/20/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

You need to run through hundreds of candidates to find someone marginally qualified. I am not exaggerating.


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samr71 • 02/20/2025

Do we have different definitions of "marginally qualified"? Idk, I feel I'm a decent engineer - I can certainly do whatever leetcode medium they throw at me, as much as this counts of anything - and can actually code, but I still get maybe 1 callback per 50 applications.

Does "marginally qualified" mean "Ivy League Competitive Programmer PhD" or something?

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