Talented Engineers Can’t Find Jobs

I'm astounded by the talent out there that cannot find jobs I'm seeing countless posts of people saying they've applied to hundreds of jobs with no luck. And then they link their personal portfolios. And holy moly. I'm seeing people who have built a beautiful Amazon type site in React. I'm seeing people who have designed an amazing mobile app game. I'm seeing professional looking finance and budget tracking apps. These projects blow my mind. And here’s the kicker. Most of the engineers at my company can’t build anything remotely close to that level of quality. Which makes me think - we have a lot of unskilled engineers that are employed, and yet skilled engineers that can build a full stack beautiful application can’t get a job. How did we come to this?

A Reddit post expresses disbelief that highly talented developers with impressive portfolios cannot find jobs, while supposedly less skilled engineers are already employed. The punchline is the frustrating contrast between visible technical ability and the job market’s apparent failure to reward it, making the image useful as a reaction to absurd hiring situations. EN: A Reddit post expresses disbelief that highly talented developers with impressive portfolios cannot find jobs, while supposedly less skilled engineers are already employed. The punchline is the frustrating contrast between visible technical ability and the job market’s apparent failure to reward it, making the image useful as a reaction to absurd hiring situations.

• @gentoomemes / 5152 2023-07-02