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Post #7401, on Nov 11, 2025 in TG
CS Degree Entitlement vs Industry Reality: The NPC Meme
Description
A four-panel NPC (grey wojak) comic on a light blue background. Panel 1: The NPC states 'I went to school and got a CS-Degree, I'm here to collect my 6-figure job?' Panel 2: A white-haired character asks 'Do you have any personal projects or passion for the field outside of work / getting paid?' Panel 3: The NPC stares blankly, processing the question. Panel 4: The NPC becomes angry and says 'Seniors are so arrogant with these crazy demands, nobody hires anymore.' The meme satirizes junior developers who expect high compensation purely based on credentials without demonstrating genuine passion or initiative beyond formal education
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His GitHub has exactly one repo: the university capstone project, last committed 2 years ago, with a README that just says 'TODO.'
A CS degree proves you can survive a four-year-long series of sprints, but a passion project on GitHub proves you can actually ship something without a product manager holding your hand
damn i wish i got hired (please hire me im a medicore devops that loves tinkering with shit but noone wants me ) Comment deleted
Because we all love ticketing smart stuff, but those paying normies want the boring stuff to work 😬 No entertainment at job for company money, how would I get motivated with pathetic useful shit 🚬 Comment deleted
I do pathetic ugly useful working bugless shit, hire me 🌚 Comment deleted
That's debatable, depending on your perception of entertainment. For example, I just sawed off some parts of a computer case, then drilled extra holes in it (for an experimental setup) — and that was kinda entertaining, especially after a day of boring office work. Comment deleted
startups are the way to go, should look for those or finally convert your ideas into paid services ☕️ Comment deleted
Unfortunately, without a passion project and 10-15 cocksuckers on Git, we can't hire you to rewrite the 4.5 million-year-old alien monolith from Dead Space. Comment deleted
Меня лайкают только русские потому, что в оригинале он называется Marker. Век живи, век учись 😔 Comment deleted
currently struggling to get any job at all, and I have plenty of "passion projects" :( Comment deleted
Yeh programming is fun, but I've never really gotten the whole assuming I do my job during my free time mentality xD 8 hours a day is more than enough to sate my want of develop stuff Comment deleted
Imagine they require this for any other career "Sorry, unless you mow yards for free as a passion project we won't hire you to mow our yard" "Sorry, unless you make food for free as a passion project ..." "Sorry, unless you drive cargo for free ..." "Sorry, unless you fly planes for free as a passion project ..." Etc Comment deleted
You should check out how piloting licenses are obtained, it's "you fly planes by spending money as a passion project" Comment deleted
How are you supposed to join the military then? Comment deleted
Entirely different hiring process (for military pilots). Comment deleted
That's a relief. Imagine "sorry, but you need to have been killing people for free as a passion project ..." Comment deleted
IIRC in most places people have to go through the commercial license course (expanded for military topics), so most of the path is similar. But not the hiring. Comment deleted
oh hey, it's me but I actually do like the field and have a bunch of random projects integrating ai into shit that ai shouldn't be integrated into because i think its funny Comment deleted
For example? Comment deleted
made a POS app that scraped broadcastify, separated the left/right audio tracks, and ran a transcription algorithm. now I have an SQL(ite) database with the last few months police, fire, and railroad chatter transcribed in it Comment deleted
over the weekend i setup fastlane for iOS. Tried it with chatgpt and successfully corrupted the login.keychain, and didn't have anything working after 4h of prompting. Looked into the docs and followed them, after 30 min the test version was online Comment deleted
LLMs are a blight on basically all tech tech fields Comment deleted
oh yes, stuff like this is why I don't believe LLMs will replace devs anytime soon Comment deleted
They won't but they will replace managers Comment deleted
But managers don't want to be replaced, and they for sure won't replace themselves Comment deleted
Yes, but there're managers higher Comment deleted
well yes :D Comment deleted
They're flipping stealing results of our creations, we need IT communism Comment deleted
We already have it basically with Open source Comment deleted
well not really, it is usually done by one person and all others just use it Comment deleted
OS is literally free thanks to Torvalds Comment deleted
True, best OS insofar Comment deleted
Open source, unlike communism, doesn't need to destroy everyone else. Comment deleted
Yk, it doesn't need to, it just does😂 the communism is kinda fiction since everyone does communism in local flavor and 9 out of 10 times it's agrarian dictatorship, the rest is China Comment deleted
And that only happend after they dropped communism and only kept the dictatorship and planning part Comment deleted
So read they arrived at modern economy model from the other side: they made market for unimportant areas, kept planning for important, high budget ones. Comment deleted
and it seems to work good for them. Would be interesting to see that happening in a less corrupted country Comment deleted
China has as much communism as blood: both are red. Comment deleted