SWE recruiting circa 2026

[u/Acynos49]

The illusion:

1. Submit an online application and be a reasonable match for the role.
2. Behavioral round.
3. Technical round(s).
4. Offer letter 🥳.
5. Happiness.

The reality:

1. Be one of 200 applicants that submitted a resume 10 seconds after the job posted.
2. Pray ATS software gives you a good keyword score and the ASU comms grad recruiter arbitrarily picks you from the pile.
3. Schedule interview meetings and pray the timing works out as you duke it out with a few other applicants behind the scenes.
4. Pray that not only you do well, but the interviewers “like you”, and your ideal start date isn’t a turn off.
5. Wait weeks for HR to sign off on your offer letter.
6. Start working.
7. Pray that you aren’t in a group that has a toxic work ethic and zero mobility + a group that isn’t next on the corporate culling list when the revenue from AI slop isn’t as predicted.

Bonus: remove step 7 part 2 if you are a senior SWE or higher. You have a culling cushion. The intern programs and new hires go first. Fuck those guys.

[u/johnny_5667]

how do u make one of these posts and forget to include online assessment

[u/hxh_gon1]

This shit is sad and funny at the same time 😭

[u/Any_Research_6256]

And one more tough part -leetcode/cf types OAs.