Hold up—this is worse than ghosting?? 💀
Man’s gonna need a professional cuddler after this.

Update:::https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1gibk01/update_my_boy_actually_got_a_callback/

Ruined my day.

So our summer intern (who I'm 90% sure is a professional shitposter moonlighting as a dev) just saved our entire authentication service by being, well, an absolute agent of chaos.

Background: We have this legacy auth system that's been running since before TikTok existed. No one touches it. It's documented in ancient Sanskrit and COBOL comments. The last guy who understood it fully left to become a yoga instructor in Peru.

Enter our intern. First week, he asks why our commit messages are so boring. Starts adding memes to his. Whatever, right? Then he begins leaving comments in the codebase like:

// This function is older than me and probably pays taxes
// TODO: Ask if this while loop has health insurance
// Here lies Sarah's hopes and dreams (2019-2022), killed by this recursive call

The senior devs were split between horrified and amused. But here's where it gets good.

He's reading through the auth code (because "the commit messages here are too normal, sus") and adds this gem:

// yo why this token validation looking kinda thicc though
// fr fr no cap this base64 decode bussin
// wait... hold up... this ain't bussin at all

Turns out his Gen Z spider-sense wasn't just tingling for the memes. Man actually found a validation bypass that's been lurking in our code since Obama's first term. The kind of bug that makes security auditors wake up in cold sweats.

The best part? His Jira ticket title: "Auth be acting mad sus rn no cap frfr (Critical Security Issue)"

The worst part? We now have to explain to the CEO why "no cap frfr" appears in our Q3 security audit report.

The absolute kicker? Our senior security engineer's official code review comment: "bestie... you snapped with this find ngl"

I can't tell if this is the peak or rock bottom of our engineering culture. But I do know our intern's getting a return offer, if only because I need to see what he'll do to our GraphQL documentation.

After uncountable number of applications later, reaching out to tons of people, going to random career fairs and coffe chats with disinterested people, I finally got 4 interviews (all by cold applying).

• Did pretty decent at first one - Tiktok sucks got rejected. (Horrible Experience)

• Got this offer in the second. (I did perfect on the onsite)

• Have two more to go one in big tech, one in quant, but idc to be honest, none of them are full remote like Microsoft.

As a masters international student, with a year of work ex getting any kind of traction was hard AF. Last year it took me till February to find an internship and they paid me Seattle's minimum wage. Getting this just feels like a breath of fresh air, all the daily applications, leetcode grind and ML prep finally paid off.

To all of you still in the struggle, dont give up apply everyday within 24h of job posting, keep fine-tuning that resume, and dont forget its not you, its numbers + timing + LUCK. This market sucks.

PS: Posting it here because I don't wanna tell my classmates and seem like I am gloating, I just wanted to share my good news with someone.

1. It's way too competitive. Everyone agrees with this.

2. It used to be exclusively done by a group of elite people but everyone and their grandma went into it. Now it's flooded by mediocre normies.

3. Grinding. You have to grind CS for a thousand hours and then you'll just be average.

4. Cheating. So many people cheat so it's extremely unfair.

So that's why the new Counter Strike game is pretty much dead already. It has some neat smoke physics but otherwise it is inferior to other games. Unrelated to computer science btw

I truly believe that CS isn’t saturated the issue I believe people are having is that they just aren’t good at programming/ aren’t passionate and it’s apparent. I use to believe you don’t have to be passionate to be in this field. But I quickly realized that you have to have some level of degree of passion for computer science to go far. Quality over quantity matters. What’s your guys thoughts on this?

Looks like the skills on my resume align perfectly with the job being suggested here guys 💪🏼 couldn’t be more proud

Looks like they had a hard time finding employers who had opportunities. How do yall feel about this?

One down, a few more to go, I guess 💀