Are you not on Linkedin? This self-aggrandizing cringe is 95% of the content in the feed, I'm always amazed people can write this with a straight face.
After grinding leetcode for months, and going through 4 interviews, you feel like you’ve “finally made it” which is why people post cringey posts like that.
Because they've finally transformed themselves into the husk of a human and are now ready for their new soul crushing dev role at Amazon? More seriously most linkedin posts I see are recruiters feeling sorry for themselves despite their bad behavior and looking for social support because of their plight.
It’s normalized on the platform because that’s how people higher up the food chain speak like. Eg when a VP switches companies. Most of the time these things are written by a PR person to be as grateful and inoffensive as possible. But then it caught on because everyone loves to humblebrag.
True. Reminds me of the time stackoverflow had hired someone for "developer relations". I think the title was "VP", and the recruit was described as "a veteran story-teller". Now having a VP send emails to developers is already a bit of stretch, and why you'd need someone at the level of Hans Christian Andersen to do so is anybody's guess, but the press release started: "We're beyond excited to ...". Was the CEO really yapping around the office, drooling from the mouth, barely controlling his bladder out of joy over this new hire? So yes, hyperbole just seems not to cut it any longer, and the answer is going into overdrive.
Exaggeration, trying too hard to sound smart, and ugly euphemism are all hallmarks of business language. That's why it's so gross when it leaks into real life.
I guess linkedin has a different vibe over here. I've seen some self-congratulatory and groveling posts, but nowhere near this level of influencer-style humblebragging.
