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my brother and his friends graduated with (3 year) degrees in CS and can't land any jobs

all the relevant LinkedIn job listings have 100+ applicants

is this a geography problem

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Truth.

I hate on HR. But I do not envy them having to pour through thousands of shitty applications.

We got about 7 stage-2 interviews out of 2000 applications. (Stage 1 is just the introduction and checking if they're not a bozo. Stage 2 is actual dept folks)