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"coder" friend with a liberal arts degree has been unemployed for three years

he's still applying for tech jobs despite three years of not...
puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
He Won
Copper Nubile Famous Landscape Painting
  03/21/26
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violent cracking telephone principal's office
  03/21/26
doesn't having a resume with experience do anything
navy tattoo
  03/21/26
it gets him the occasional interview but never an offer beca...
puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
best thing about interviews at least for fake bullshit non E...
navy tattoo
  03/21/26
that's why i've been using quotes around the word "code...
puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
No doubt his technical skills do suck, but interviews don't ...
sadistic puppy
  03/21/26
not only do his technical skills probably suck, but he's too...
puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
Engineering interviews are Engineering based. literally all ...
navy tattoo
  03/21/26
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exhilarant ultramarine space
  03/21/26
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navy tattoo
  03/21/26
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navy tattoo
  03/21/26
That’s why I’m getting My MBA
180 jap boiling water
  03/21/26
Maybe he should learn to code.
spruce voyeur sound barrier
  03/21/26
interesting. should i suggest this?
puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
gotta start vibe-coding your own AI-assisted projects and ma...
racy white forum dopamine
  03/21/26
Why do you seem to always take glee in the failure of others...
idiotic bat shit crazy church
  03/21/26
why do you think i take glee here? out of our entire friend ...
puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
how many years of experience does he have? what has he been...
brass son of senegal orchestra pit
  03/21/26
one decade, fucking around and not doing much and possibly d...
puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
OP is a dreary morass
bistre curious garrison
  03/21/26
Who cares. If you are a whiteboy whats the point of having a...
exhilarant ultramarine space
  03/21/26
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puce really tough guy
  03/21/26
You mean they don't give him interviews based on his BA degr...
boyish black woman nursing home
  03/21/26
background checks show degree. you have to try for something...
navy tattoo
  03/21/26
Liberal arts is literally life ruining. If you have prole re...
navy tattoo
  03/21/26
Yes
exhilarant ultramarine space
  03/21/26
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sexy wine pisswyrm lodge
  03/21/26
It was always meant to be the leisurely pursuit of the upper...
metal sapphire mental disorder
  03/22/26
I feel like things have tilted against this a bit, I see the...
navy tattoo
  03/22/26
He probably just sucks at programming. IQ based really.
Salmon laughsome liquid oxygen azn
  03/21/26
“Sucks at programming” is far more experience ba...
exhilarant ultramarine space
  03/21/26
Yes
aromatic ticket booth multi-billionaire
  03/21/26
There are no jobs. New CS grads aren't being hired. Meanwhil...
sadistic puppy
  03/22/26
wehre si the abstract class and then concrete class
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idiotic bat shit crazy church
  03/22/26
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exhilarant ultramarine space
  03/22/26
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Copper Nubile Famous Landscape Painting
  03/22/26
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CapTTTainFalcon
  07/10/26
i'm OP and my friend is still unemployed
cucumbers
  07/10/26


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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: puce really tough guy

he's still applying for tech jobs despite three years of nothing. i'm not sure how to tell him It's Over for liberal artists like him who were able to get coding jobs 5+ years ago when they still had a chance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759920)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: Copper Nubile Famous Landscape Painting

He Won

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759923)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 7:22 PM
Author: violent cracking telephone principal's office



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: navy tattoo

doesn't having a resume with experience do anything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759924)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:34 PM
Author: puce really tough guy

it gets him the occasional interview but never an offer because Liberal Artist "coders" can't hack it in the modern job market unless they're a woman or minority.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759929)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:35 PM
Author: navy tattoo

best thing about interviews at least for fake bullshit non Engineering jobs is you literally never know why you didn't get it, you always have to make some shit up to fill in the blanks. sometimes you find out the person who got it and are like holy shit lmao. like when olds say they get passed over because of age discrimination. they're literally just making that up. they might just suck for totally unrelated reasons.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759931)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:43 PM
Author: puce really tough guy

that's why i've been using quotes around the word "coder" here. haven't worked with him professionally but i assume his technical skills just suck, which is unsurprising given his BA in Political Science.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759950)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:47 PM
Author: sadistic puppy

No doubt his technical skills do suck, but interviews don't reward skills, just phenotype. If he was a Nerd, his phenotype would cause them to assume that a BA in Political Science was only due to autistic interests.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759953)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:51 PM
Author: puce really tough guy

not only do his technical skills probably suck, but he's too attached to what appears to be a professional dead-end for him. he regularly attends tech meetups and spams his resume. someone needs to tell him to give up and try something different.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759958)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:05 PM
Author: navy tattoo

Engineering interviews are Engineering based. literally all other interviews no one asks you anything about anything they just kill time and assess phenotype

have you ever done the ones where they talk about the company for a really really long time and there's no way for you to interject and make it more of a back and forth for the entire 20 minutes they spend on it? are these good or bad? they're terrible. it's like they just want to make it phenotype and not even give you a chance to express your talking phenotype.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759994)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:06 PM
Author: exhilarant ultramarine space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759995)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: navy tattoo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760124)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 10:03 PM
Author: navy tattoo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760618)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:52 PM
Author: 180 jap boiling water

That’s why I’m getting My MBA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759960)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:53 PM
Author: spruce voyeur sound barrier

Maybe he should learn to code.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759962)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 5:53 PM
Author: puce really tough guy

interesting. should i suggest this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759964)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:01 PM
Author: racy white forum dopamine

gotta start vibe-coding your own AI-assisted projects and marketing those.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759983)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:01 PM
Author: idiotic bat shit crazy church

Why do you seem to always take glee in the failure of others

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759985)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:05 PM
Author: puce really tough guy

why do you think i take glee here? out of our entire friend group, i've gotten him many more referrals than anyone else. i'm just commenting on how the coding job market has changed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759993)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:02 PM
Author: brass son of senegal orchestra pit

how many years of experience does he have?

what has he been doing the past three years?

why are you such a shithead?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759988)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: puce really tough guy

one decade, fucking around and not doing much and possibly drinking, i like eating poo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760007)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:05 PM
Author: bistre curious garrison

OP is a dreary morass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759992)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:07 PM
Author: exhilarant ultramarine space

Who cares. If you are a whiteboy whats the point of having a "job"? Entire existence revolves around being a sex-toy for black men and thats where the enjoyment comes in too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759996)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:10 PM
Author: puce really tough guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760011)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:07 PM
Author: boyish black woman nursing home

You mean they don't give him interviews based on his BA degree?

Can't he just tweak it and list a BS degree in CS? If all they need is coding skills and he has them, he can simply pretend he got a STEM degree 10 years ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49759999)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:11 PM
Author: navy tattoo

background checks show degree. you have to try for something that doesn't do one. why doesn't he do 1099 Engineering shit or something....

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760013)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:37 PM
Author: navy tattoo

Liberal arts is literally life ruining. If you have prole relatives and that’s your Major they’re like “stop. Final Warning” meanwhile you’re like “an educated populace is the Crux of a free society” and “degree holders make $66,950 on average versus hs grads $46,500”

But in reality proles are wise as fuck. They know all through Intuition but can’t explain it with words so they’re like “your a fag”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760069)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:44 PM
Author: exhilarant ultramarine space

Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760093)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 7:15 PM
Author: sexy wine pisswyrm lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760155)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 8:16 AM
Author: metal sapphire mental disorder

It was always meant to be the leisurely pursuit of the upper classes, not some random LoserBag. They even wrote novels like Jude the Obscure that depicted the folly of this. All the same, there were plenty of Fake Jobs in the early aughts that “required” a fake undergraduate degree iirc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760721)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 8:31 AM
Author: navy tattoo

I feel like things have tilted against this a bit, I see them specifying “Business, Engineering, or related discipline” or something. Businessmen are retarded but sometimes they have OCI. And if interviewers hear that a candidate aced OCI, it’s intoxicating. They’re like, “I’m listening.”

Anyway ITE pushed liberal arts’ shit in or was the kill shot imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760730)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 6:44 PM
Author: Salmon laughsome liquid oxygen azn

He probably just sucks at programming. IQ based really.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760092)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 7:18 PM
Author: exhilarant ultramarine space

“Sucks at programming” is far more experience based than IQ based. Tons of midwits are senior engineer level. Tons of top percentile iqs dont program at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760166)



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Date: March 21st, 2026 10:36 PM
Author: aromatic ticket booth multi-billionaire

Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760685)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 8:33 AM
Author: sadistic puppy

There are no jobs. New CS grads aren't being hired. Meanwhile your plumber is writing this with Claude:

https://x.com/RG_Leachman/status/2035537289812816128?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760736)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 8:42 AM
Author: Floppy stead hominid

wehre si the abstract class and then concrete class

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760751)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 8:47 AM
Author: idiotic bat shit crazy church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49760762)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 11:09 AM
Author: exhilarant ultramarine space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49761009)



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Date: March 22nd, 2026 11:18 AM
Author: Copper Nubile Famous Landscape Painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49761028)



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Date: July 10th, 2026 4:28 PM
Author: CapTTTainFalcon

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMVEYo1WwAAJLrY?format=jpg&name=large

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49991409)



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Date: July 10th, 2026 4:29 PM
Author: cucumbers

i'm OP and my friend is still unemployed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5848335&forum_id=2).#49991416)