A senior engineer created a fake junior dev to test hiring advice.
The profile had:
- good portfolio
- active GitHub
- senior-level projects
- even faked YOE
He ran the experiment in the Netherlands, a country known for its developer shortage.
Applied to 36 jobs and didn’t get a single interview.
The junior dev market is brutal.
Kids born 2000–2004:
- Corona fucked up everything
- After corona, students forgot how to write on paper
- Worst college life
- No real friends
- Unemployment arc
- War and missiles
- AI taking real jobs
- Mental health issues and depression
- Anyone can write code, real devs not needed
- No healthy life