I Hate Interviews...

Dude, I hate interviews. Like, why is getting a job this freaking hard?? You spend hours tweaking your resume, writing cover letters no one reads, filling out job applications that ask you to manually type out everything that’s already on your resume (seriously, why??), just to either get ghosted or hit with some generic rejection email.

And if you do somehow make it past that nonsense, now you gotta deal with interviews. First, there’s the recruiter screen where they’re like, “Walk me through your resume” (bro, you have my resume, just read it). Then, you get to the technical rounds where they either grill you on some obscure machine learning theory or throw Leetcode problems at you like you're applying to NASA.

And THEN, if you survive all that, there's the “culture fit” round where you gotta pretend you’re super passionate about optimizing ad click-through rates or whatever. Like yes, of course, I wake up every day thinking about logistic regression for your specific business needs.

I’ve been a data scientist for five years now, and interviews still make me feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. Like, I know I can do the job. I have done the job. But somehow, every time they ask me “Why do you want to work here?” my brain just short circuits.

At this point, job hunting is just a game of emotional endurance. Who else is suffering out here?