It’s incredible how noisy the job market to hire frontend engineers is right now. Maybe it’s LinkedIn. Posted a job ad and 160 applicants applied in less than 2 hours to a hybrid job in Raleigh, NC. Less than 10% were in NC. 80% answered the applicant questions with the same ChatGPT response. The quickest first 15 didn’t even answer the questions even though they were required. The kicker is that not one person mentioned the very obvious Easter Egg 80% of the way into the job ad. 🤯