# Jobless

> The weekly newsletter that tells 19-24-year-old CS students and early-career engineers what's actually happening in tech hiring: named companies, real numbers, and one thing to do about it. No "AI is changing everything." No LinkedIn voice.

Jobless publishes weekly at joblessnews.beehiiv.com. Each issue pairs one entertainment-first story (layoffs, industry drama, product launches, beef) with one concrete education payload (an interview tactic, a negotiation script, a way to stand out in a flooded applicant pool). Written second-person, present-tense, from someone who has already been through the interview gauntlet, not a careers office.

## Career Tactics & Job Search
- [I Built 7 Side Projects That No One Cared About. The 8th One Got Me a FAANG Offer.](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/i-built-7-side-projects-that-no-one-cared-about-the-8th-one-got-me-a-faang-offer): The difference wasn't the code but the strategy. The simple framework stolen from the startup world.
- [How To Use LinkedIn To Land Tech Internships](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-use-linkedin-to-land-tech-internships): The LinkedIn playbook for landing internships.
- [How to Apply for Tech Jobs (and Actually Hear Back)](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-apply-for-tech-jobs-and-actually-hear-back-75019073efaf48de): The insider playbook to escape the application black hole.
- [We Heard You: The Behavioral Interview Struggle is Real (So We Literally Built a Solution)](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/we-heard-you-the-behavioral-interview-struggle-is-real-so-we-literally-built-a-solution-efedde194bd1): When "Tell me about yourself" becomes your worst nightmare.
- [How to Survive Your First Hackathon (and Actually Win Something)](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-survive-your-first-hackathon-and-actually-win-something-d07de541ae322a80): The insider guide to not embarrassing yourself at 3 AM while coding.
- [How Negotiation Help Students Get $50K+ Above Initial Offers](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/how-negotiation-help-students-get-50k-above-initial-offers-94feb802147d6864): The 3 psychological triggers that turn "no" into "$15K more."
- [Your Portfolio Sucks (And Here's How to Fix It)](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/your-portfolio-sucks-and-here-s-how-to-fix-it): Why 80% of CS students build the same boring projects, and how to join the 20% who actually get hired.
- [I Failed 12 Technical Interviews Before Learning These 5 Patterns That Actually Work](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/i-failed-12-technical-interviews-before-learning-these-5-patterns-that-actually-work): How to actually prep for tech interviews without losing your sanity.
- [How to Pass Coding Interviews with Just Vibes](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-pass-coding-interviews-with-just-vibes): Gen Z's guide to skipping the grind and still getting the job.
- [Your Internship Won't Guarantee a Job But This Will](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/your-internship-won-t-guarantee-a-job-but-this-will): From intern to insider: securing the offer that counts.
- [FAANG Internships: Why You're (Probably) Applying Wrong](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/faang-internships-why-you-re-probably-applying-wrong): Why applying to 100+ FAANG internships won't work.

## Industry & AI Commentary
- [Claude's Best Model Just Got Expensive. Here's the Skill It Handed You.](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/claude-fable-5-goes-extra-credit-the-skill-anthropic-just-taught-you): Fable 5 is extra credit starting tomorrow. The model-routing skill hiding inside the paywall and how to use it for your next interview.
- [The AI Layoff Tax](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-layoff-tax): 80% of companies that fired people to fund AI saw zero improvement in returns, per a May 2026 Gartner survey of 350 executives. The companies generating real value retrained their engineers instead. You're not competing against AI, you're competing to get into the companies that know how to use it.
- [Is Your CS Degree Getting Rug-Pulled by No-Code?](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/is-your-cs-degree-getting-rug-pulled-by-no-code): The uncomfortable truth about a future where the best developers write the least amount of code.
- [Wtf Happened to the Tech Job Market?](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/wtf-happened-to-the-tech-job-market): It's not just you. A no-BS breakdown of why the job hunt is a nightmare right now.
- [MCP: The USB-C of AI That's Changing Everything](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/mcp-the-usb-c-of-ai-that-s-changing-everything): Why every CS student needs to understand Model Context Protocol, and how to get started.
- [wtf is vibe coding?](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/wtf-is-vibe-coding): Gen Z devs are building apps they barely understand, and why that might not be a bad thing.
- [Tech Jobs vs. Potential Recession: What You Need to Know](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/tech-jobs-vs-potential-recession-what-you-need-to-know): How to recession-proof yourself.

## Real Stories & Culture
- [Soham Parekh, The Multi-Company Engineer: What We Can Learn from a Career Trainwreck](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/soham-parekh-the-multi-company-engineer-what-we-can-learn-from-a-career-trainwreck): How this guy cracked cold emails, interviews, and multiple jobs all at once, and what it actually teaches about interviewing.
- [100% of students bookmark AI courses but only 1% finish them](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/100-of-students-bookmark-ai-courses-but-only-1-finish-them-8964): A roadmap to actually finish something for once.
- [Rick Rubin Just Wrote a Coding Book (Kind Of)](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/rick-rubin-just-wrote-a-coding-book): The Way of Code, a Zen guide to flow-based programming, just dropped.
- [The Student Side Hustle That Actually Pays](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/the-student-side-hustle-that-actually-pays): I made $600 shipping a class project. Here's how.

## Optional
- [Want to Learn Vibe Coding 1-on-1? Reply "Yes!"](https://joblessnews.beehiiv.com/p/want-to-learn-vibe-coding-1-on-1-reply-yes-ff13): A free live webinar on vibe codin