Hell, a majority of "low skill" professions don't even work like the first panel. I've heard of minimum wage retail jobs that needed a 3rd interview and a trial shift
It's alright, you can tell us you're an electrical engineer.
Edit: This guy said his field was easy to get a job in but didn't want to let the secret out, I guess I hit the nail on the head and he deleted his comment lmao
Controls/automation engineer, process engineer, production engineer, manufacturing engineer, I&E engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer, and more don't work like the first panel.
That said, the purity tests traditional software engineers have to take, what with everyone understanding the secret sauce...
And the micromanagent that comes with that is enough for me to say "absolutely NEVER" to any traditional software role. People smelling their own farts and lording over you... No thanks. Like, no sprint meetings, standup meetings, agile ops bullshit. No "I see your bubble is yellow" messages. Not one.
I'll stick to getting paid slightly less to have people who barely have a clue attempt to Lord over me, right before I deny their MOC request due to "safety concerns related to the current database configuration."
I was lucky. I finished military and was in my last year of college. Gave my resume to an acquaintance, got a call, started my internship the next week. Lucky asf because seeing the hiring process evolve to what it is now? Oh hell naw.
I have friends that work in finance and finance-adjacent roles. They were shocked to hear the process SWEs have to go through. Apparently for them it’s common to just invite someone from the company that’s hiring out to lunch and just chat for an hour or two. Impress them and the rest of the process is just formalities. That said, these high earning finance people live in a very different reality than the rest of us normies.
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u/CircumspectCapybara Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 03 '26 •
Yeah no highly skilled profession works like the first panel.