I was in tech for almost 9 years and I think where people have trouble breaking into tech is the unspoken etiquette when it comes to interacting with others
- backchanneling is common (you ask mutual connections about a person beforehand), and the quality of information and the helpfulness is a proxy to the quality of the relationship 
- you still have to write really good concise emails, or Twitter DMs etc. 
- there is some merit to corporate performance, thank you notes, follow ups, dinners etc. 
- hiring processes/networking are basically integrated and informal, and the ambiguity is unsettling to some 

Don’t know where I was going with this. But as someone who did tech hiring for 5~ years the quality of applicants has gone down

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Still gathering datapoints. 

Sounds like you’re speaking specifically about new grads?

2 reasons:
- job market tougher, feels like the only top students or applicants get jobs where it exposes them to excellence. entry level jobs becoming eliminated by AI 
- Instagram/twitter success slop contributing to dopamine cycle but ultimately doesn’t push folks to be better professionally 

What do you think? Differently, similar?