A company scheduled 5 rounds for a junior developer role.
Round 1: HR screening.
Round 2: DSA.
Round 3: React and JavaScript.
Round 4: System design.
Round 5: Final managerial discussion.
The candidate cleared every round.
Then HR said, "We're looking for someone with 5+ years of experience."
The role was advertised for freshers.
At this point, is hiring even serious anymore?
A senior engineer faked a junior profile to test the entry-level market.
Solid portfolio.
Active GitHub.
Senior-tier projects.
Fake experience added.
He applied to 36 roles in the Netherlands, a market supposedly short on developers.
Zero companies reached out for an interview.
The junior market is way tougher than most realize.
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Instead of manually checking 20 job posts, I connected Cursor to the job market via Metix.
It pulled 8 recent AI/ML openings and broke them down.
Python showed up in almost every one.
MLOps was non-negotiable.
RAG and agents kept appearing.
Kubernetes was mentioned a decent amount too.
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