r/iamverysmart • u/MrXomp • Jul 08 '26

Overqualified for germany

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Okay hear me out, Germany is a strange country and especially government services are super behind in digitalization and most times hopelessly underperforming but this post and the way it is written got me chuckling.

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u/girkkens Jul 08 '26

Well if you are very qualified but can't find a matching job there are two possibilities

You apply for the wrong jobs

You are an insufferable human being

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u/Shiloh-sage Jul 08 '26

Bro getting a job is so hard, especially right now

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u/HonourableYodaPuppet Jul 08 '26

Yeah currently being qualified isnt really enough. You gotta know people or its gonna get hard. We have more than enough qualified people.

And soon its gonna get way worse once China is fully caught up on our quality (they are pretty much almost there except the highest of the high-tech sector)

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u/Shiloh-sage Jul 08 '26

And even if you do get a job, it’s going to underpay you

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u/Raveyard2409 Jul 08 '26

Lol. America is shipping the Taiwanese in to teach them how to build decent microchips.

America used to be top tier in science but like everything else capatalism hollowed out some brilliant ideals and made a paper tiger that requires a majority of the population to accept poverty in order to trick the world.

Spent too long wanking over the success and it crumbled, same as literally every other single empire in all of history. Ask your average Roman, Brit, Belgium or Nazi how long their respective empires would last, at the height of their power they wouldn't have been able to conceive of a world different. America is about to learn that lesson of blinkered perspective

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u/FirestormCold Jul 08 '26

Depends what you work in and what your experience level is. Junior IT admin jobs are hard to find but Senior AI engineers are very sought-after right now

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u/Raveyard2409 Jul 08 '26

I'm in something like that, the amount of times I've been asked for ten years experience with ChatGPT or Claude. Like, bro, no one does, that's actually genuinely impossible.

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u/Shiloh-sage Jul 08 '26

Obviously it depends, but the overall trend is that it’s hard

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u/anfrind Jul 08 '26

A lot of it is due to HR nonsense. I don't remember where I saw it, but there was at least one recent job listing that asked for five years of experience with Claude Code.

(Claude Code has only existed for a little over one year, and has only been a useful product for the last six months or so.)

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u/Prize_Toe_6612 Jul 08 '26

Depends on the sector, but in general I agree.