Career experts debate whether bringing iced coffee to job interviews signals unprofessionalism and lack of focus, with a recruiter's viral TikTok sparking widespread discussion. While some hiring professionals view it as casual and dismissive, others argue it's a reasonable part of a busy day, with etiquette experts recommending caution given varying workplace cultures.
The Unhired Index tracks nine major software companies and finds they employed roughly 185,000 fewer workers in 2025 than their pre-2020 hiring patterns would predict, with this gap opening in 2023 and widening annually. The analysis uses historical revenue-to-headcount relationships from before 2020 as a baseline, holding those ratios fixed to see how many workers companies would have hired given their actual revenues.
A satirical joke from 2013 comparing absurd job interview questions for carpenters to unrealistic technical hiring practices for software developers, illustrating how interviewers often fixate on specific tools and technologies rather than evaluating core skills.