I Love Tech. I Hate the Tech Industry. Part Two: Everything I Did Right?
Nov 12, 2026 · @Emmanuel Olimi In four years, I have applied to the same company again and again, and I have never once spoken to a human being there. Not a recruiter. Not a screener. Not a hiring manager. Not one short call. In that time I was upskillling in the industry, built real products, shipped AI systems, and grew as an engineer in ways I can point to. At first I understood. Maybe I lacked the s kills or the experience, it was new field, no knew or had the skills. That is a fair thing to assume at the start of a career, and I assumed it for a long time. But somewhere along the way, after even getting a masters degree in the fiel, the explanation stopped fitting the facts. I was not the same candidate I had been in year one. The silence was. Let me be careful here, because I said i n Part One that I would rather lose an argument than win it with a number that is not true. I am not claiming I deserve a job. Nobody does. I am not claiming I was the best candidat...