@GergelyOrosz: I'm now past 50 anecdotes on the job market, and it feels there's a catch-22 position repeating: 1. Companies strugglin…
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The tweet discusses a recurring catch-22 in the tech job market where companies struggle to hire specific profiles like product-minded engineers and devtools infrastructure specialists due to noisy inbound applications, while qualified candidates rarely get noticed.
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I’m now past 50 anecdotes on the job market, and it feels there’s a catch-22 position repeating:
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Companies struggling to hire certain profiles (product-minded engineers, devtools infra etc)
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Inbound apps are SUPER noisy, so most co’s give up on them
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Devs with the above skillset are submitting applications… but rarely ever make it thru the massive noise of inbound applications
So #1 never finds #3 and both #1 and #3 wonder what is going on
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