I glanced over a few other blog posts from the blog. The guy is describes himself as a troublemaker and has a whole blog post on how it is hard to be nice to people.
And the guy has a track record of posting highly racist comments to boot.
This is from the last half a dozen blog posts.
Perhaps the guy is going through a mental breakdown. Perhaps not. But I’d be hard pressed to pick this guy over any other candidate.
But that first half is a reminder (to myself) that not everyone deserves constant good will or benefit of the doubt. Folks like Kissinger definitely would have gleefully eradicated Haiti (if not turned into a plantation-as-country) and folks who hold offsets of his ideals do not need to be given any sort of grace.
If you think his writing is any of what you posit, then I’d recommend taking a look in the mirror to search for your humanity.
If you think his writing is any of what you posit,
It does. Most of us don’t go around writing essays rationalizing how we treat others like shit, and framing basic decency in daily interactions as “expending of energy”, and then make it believe everyone else should just be ok with this.
It’s a colossal red flag. Then the racist rants make it all the worst.
Don’t take my word for it. Perhaps take the hiring managers’ word?
Just watched several friends take two+ years to get a job, with FAANG on their resume and over a decade of experience, in the US. You probably have some selection bias.
In the US right now economy, I do agree that it can be a negative signal for employers when quantifying cost but, that outweighs their inherent value of prior vetting done by a major organization. However, if a candidate employee does apply for a role they are more than likely well aware of the possible salary range for the role - pending their states laws around pay range posting requirements. Companies hiring for software developers are mostly already complying with these requirments, as any survey across open roles can tell you.
Were they self selecting by demanding insane salaries in highly competitive locations like silicon valley? Or did they broaden their search and allowed a pay cut or moving?
How many of most of us here are black, then? Dude seems disillusioned with the corpo ballet we’re all asked to hop through because that’s the status quo. Things don’t actually have to be that way, it’s not some kind of law of nature.
Suppose if you’re happy with the status quo, then I’m glad for you. To me it still reads like corpo shillery. The devil doesn’t need an advocate.
took me a year and some months to get an IT job and ive been doing support/engineering for the past 20+ years. the market is absolute fucking garbage now.
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I glanced over a few other blog posts from the blog. The guy is describes himself as a troublemaker and has a whole blog post on how it is hard to be nice to people.
And the guy has a track record of posting highly racist comments to boot.
This is from the last half a dozen blog posts.
Perhaps the guy is going through a mental breakdown. Perhaps not. But I’d be hard pressed to pick this guy over any other candidate.
Sauce? I read through several posts on the blog and didn’t find what you’re talking about
You must have done a poor job reading them.
I’ll leave you with this facepalm read.
https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2026/nice-for-what/
If you think his writing is any of what you posit, then I’d recommend taking a look in the mirror to search for your humanity.
It does. Most of us don’t go around writing essays rationalizing how we treat others like shit, and framing basic decency in daily interactions as “expending of energy”, and then make it believe everyone else should just be ok with this.
It’s a colossal red flag. Then the racist rants make it all the worst.
Don’t take my word for it. Perhaps take the hiring managers’ word?
Sorry I didn’t cherry pick the fifth to last essay?
Just watched several friends take two+ years to get a job, with FAANG on their resume and over a decade of experience, in the US. You probably have some selection bias.
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In the US right now economy, I do agree that it can be a negative signal for employers when quantifying cost but, that outweighs their inherent value of prior vetting done by a major organization. However, if a candidate employee does apply for a role they are more than likely well aware of the possible salary range for the role - pending their states laws around pay range posting requirements. Companies hiring for software developers are mostly already complying with these requirments, as any survey across open roles can tell you.
s/but, that outweighs/but, that doesn’t outweigh/
Were they self selecting by demanding insane salaries in highly competitive locations like silicon valley? Or did they broaden their search and allowed a pay cut or moving?
They were self selecting by not even catching interviews, even after using utilities to reformilate their resumes for ATS.
How many of most of us here are black, then? Dude seems disillusioned with the corpo ballet we’re all asked to hop through because that’s the status quo. Things don’t actually have to be that way, it’s not some kind of law of nature.
Suppose if you’re happy with the status quo, then I’m glad for you. To me it still reads like corpo shillery. The devil doesn’t need an advocate.
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took me a year and some months to get an IT job and ive been doing support/engineering for the past 20+ years. the market is absolute fucking garbage now.