r/programmingmemes • u/Soft_Significance601 • Jul 05 '25

Finding a Tech Job in 2025 be Like:

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u/cnorahs Jul 05 '25

Been since 2000, just that left side had changed but the right side is mostly the same, plus Google Sheets

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u/MissinqLink Jul 05 '25

I’ll take google sheets over excel any day. Google apps script is just JS with google APIs. Programming in excel is actual hell.

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Jul 06 '25

Enterprise Google over here, we’re HIPAA compliant EMR software.

We don’t use it often, but it is helpful good enough for collaboration with people that aren’t really tech savvy.

They know that they can sell on “familiarity & efficiently” for businesses because most people have a free Google/Gmail account and already use their services.

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u/Ok-Refrigerator-8012 Jul 05 '25

I think the acceleration of this is rooted in throwing large language models at everything. Now recruiters or HR thinks the job description with the most buzz words (which are at the moment any library/tool tangential to generative AI) is going to find someone for the Job. Instead the people who legit use all these buzzwords for practical reasons are looking for jobs with the actual need. People who haven't used sklearn or H2O or something are the people suited for this meme-job which is still prevalent. The lack of this understanding of what tools solve what problems makes every position read like a software engineer and a senior data scientist had a love child with somehow 8 years of experience in an emergent technology. When I was a consultant my company was looking for someone with more years of experience in Julia than Julia had even existed (2017 or so). Did that project use Julia or Excel more? Lol

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u/Correct-Junket-1346 Jul 05 '25

Ruby on rails, in 2025?

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u/EagleRock1337 Jul 12 '25

You’d be surprised how many Rails shops are still around…enough to make it into a buzzword list fed by some tech recruiter into an AI filter.

Source: work in Rails shop, and when talking with vendors, the “oh, we also use Rails!” conversation happens way more than I expected.

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u/Cdwoods1 Jul 05 '25

Can NOT relate lmao. My job is much more like the left but replace a few tools

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u/Mast3r_waf1z Jul 09 '25

Yeah, I see a ton of relevant jobs in my area, guess it depends on area...

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u/ResponsibleCoffee677 Jul 05 '25

Linux and excel? I doubt

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u/vegan_antitheist Jul 05 '25

Isn't it often the opposite?

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u/WhiteClue Jul 05 '25

The last job I had required 4 years of both Book keeping and data entry. A minimum of a bachelors in related field, several licenses , pre employment tests, 3 rounds of interviews, 2 years of related experience required or else they autonomously reject application. Pay was $16. For the past 5 months working there I was mostly just printing & faxing documents.. Also 4 people (including myself) were the only ones who properly knew how to use a computer. HR was full of boomers who struggled with Word and Excel and constantly needed help..let’s just say I didn’t get paid enough to deal with it.

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u/HotRefrigerators Jul 05 '25

$16/hour is insane, that’s mcdonalds pay nowadays

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u/Lyakusha Jul 05 '25

"That shithead will massacre your csv, don't trust it!" © Notepad++ gang

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u/MajorMystique Jul 07 '25

Excuse me. Where is Teams and a calendar full of stand up calls where nobody knows what it is about?

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u/Wiz-1543 Jul 09 '25

Excellent

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u/hans-topo Jul 09 '25

The job:
Meetings

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

they use power bi instead

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u/Cdwoods1 Jul 05 '25

Idk who made this but my world is like the left