I think it’s easy for them to fall into a trap where they artificially inflate the requirements just because there is interest in the position.

So in a sense, yes, they’ve lost touch.

They also forget that every year, the “best” interviewees use them as a practice round and leverage for a more prestigious company. Inevitably, they chase unicorns at the expense of everything else. Every year, 3 colleges, hundreds of hours of interview rounds for 10-15 positions and they’d end up with 3-5 that actually started the paid internship.

Absolutely. If you’re in college, an internship is ideal.

And yet, the number of times I had to talk a manager off a ledge about an internship candidate without relevant experience…

This after they’d been through 2-3 rounds of coding challenges and a “culture fit” check.

So put something on your resume. Maybe you were a “support tech in a Linux server environment” for 3 years because you helped your grandparent with a router a few times. We weren’t calling references. And your coworkers will know and expect you are green.

tl;dr: Trump’s lust for money is fed by “deals” that do not need to be conventionally successful.

Here’s the subheadline:

Everything the US president does is for money – and in serving his avarice, he’s managed to triumph over the market

Select quotes:

Trump has figured out to an exceptional degree that dealmaking does not need to be successful in order to massively increase his wealth.

Deals, successful or not, are Trump’s magic means to amass money and feed his avarice.

… greed can have numerous objects – such as food, sex and power – whereas avarice is single-minded in its focus on money.

Trump exemplifies this focus.

Other commodities are of interest to him only insofar as they serve his desire to acquire, hoard and increase his stock – of money.

It’s a “full beard” too, but you’d have to really zoom in to tell.

These sorts? Absolutely.

My favorites:

• y’all qaeda
• talibangelicals

Distanceraptor over time equals velociraptor? Sounds like evolution to me.

I thought so too until I recently inherited some asp.net code that defies basic comprehension and has existed since well before vibe coding.

Seems on brand. Like they want people deported so they can go on missionary trips to accost them in their home countries with the love of Jesus.