u/Backtawen

not a rant, just what i'm actually seeing.

companies post junior roles but expect mid-level output. the job description says 2-3 years experience, the interview expects you to architect a distributed system.

automated filtering kills you before a human sees your cv. real github projects, real side projects, code you actually wrote yourself, still auto-rejected for a missing keyword.

then there's the data harvesting thing. companies that already filled the role weeks ago but left the posting up. you spend 45 minutes filling out a broken application form, uploading your cv in 3 different formats, writing a veryy honest cover letter. for a role that's already gone. they just needed the data.

and the ai thing is real. companies that used to hire 3 juniors now hire 1 mid and give them copilot. the math works for them, not for us.

the worst part is there's no way to signal you're one of the juniors who actually puts in the work. you're filtered out alongside everyone else before a human ever sees your name.

and if you make it through, get rejected after an interview, ask for feedback? silence. or "we went with another candidate." nothing you can actually use. rejection is part of the process, everyone knows that. but knowing why makes you better. withholding that is just lazy and not honest.

anyone else in the DACH market seeing this? curious if it's germany specific or everywhere right now.

working on a .net 9 backend and considering spinning up a small python service just for the ai/llm stuff. keep the c# side clean, let python handle prompt logic and model calls since the tooling there is just better for that usecase.

curious if anyone's done this in practice. how did you handle the communication, grpc or just http? was it worth the added complexity or did you end up just calling the api directly from c#?

just actually sitting and deciding things myself. like how do i want this structured, what pattern makes sense here, how should the dependencies flow. nobody talks about that part. the thinking before the typing. ai just skips it for you and you dont even notice its gone until you sit down alone with a blank file.

did it today for a side project. set up DI myself, thought through the architecture, wrote constructors without prompting anything. took longer obviously but it felt like actually building something instead of just reviewing code someone else wrote.

feels like a skill thats quietly disappearing and most people wont notice until its completely gone.

anyone else still do this on purpose?