“Junior Staff Platform Engineer”
SomeBank++ · “Remote-first” (but onsite 3x/week)
- “15+ years Kubernetes” (launched 2014)
- On-call “every weekend”
- “Growth opportunity” ???
- Salary: “competitive” (translation: vibes)
🚀 Private beta starts Q2 2026
Crowd-check job ads. Roast the nonsense.
JobGoblin is a community-powered reality check for tech hiring. We help engineers:
- Break down job ads with impossible asks and fantasy requirements.
- Spot AI-written listings, ghost jobs, and broken apply flows.
- Track interview marathons, unpaid homework, and endless stages.
- Verify salary claims against real-world receipts.
- Hold recruiters and companies accountable, publicly.
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Three real-world classics (the kind you’ll find on the Wall of No)
Receipts in, red flags out. Clickable tags later become your drill-down filters.
“SRE / React Native / Hardware Integrations”
AeroX Mobility · Hamburg · On-site
- Requires FAA certs for a mobile role
- “99.9999% uptime” + “5 prod releases/week”
- "Do you know where can we by cheap NVIDIA?"
- Apply button redirects to a 404
“Founding Engineer (solo)”
Stealth Startup · Hybrid · “Fast-paced” (2 months)
- Homework: “3 days” (unpaid) in round 2
- AI screen + AI interview + “culture bot”
- Delivery in a month, we have an empty repo
- “Start tomorrow”, but decision in ~8 weeks
The "Wall of No"
We track the red flags so you don’t have to apply. Check companies before they waste your time. Together, we’re building the “Rotten Tomatoes” of tech hiring: community scores based on verified job listings and real user reports.
Don't waste your time
Our AI analyzes listing age, repost history, and crowd reports to flag “Zombie Jobs”, roles that never hire, endlessly repost, or drag you through 8+ interview rounds before ghosting you anyway.
Legacy Trap Warnings
Promised cutting-edge tech? Users report what they actually found: legacy codebases, outdated frameworks, deprecated libraries, and “temporary” systems older than your career.
Salary Verification
Upload anonymous interview receipts, salary offers, and job descriptions. We compare real offers against the “competitive salary” promised in the job ad, and show the gap.
Frequently Asked Questions
General
What is TEDNE?
TEDNE (This Engineer Does Not Exist) is a community-driven platform that acts as the “Rotten Tomatoes” of tech hiring. We collect, analyze, and contextualize job listings to expose impossible requirements, broken hiring flows, and misleading practices.
Who is JobGoblin?
JobGoblin is our savage AI persona that roasts job ads for realism. He calculates the Bullshit Score and calls out listings that demand seniority levels higher than the age of the technology itself.
Why are you doing this?
Recruiting is broken. Between ghost jobs, unrealistic expectations, and opaque interview processes, candidates are burning out. TEDNE exists to bring radical transparency back into hiring, using data, humor, and community signal.
For Candidates & Engineers
Is my submission anonymous?
Yes. Privacy is a core principle. Anonymous submissions are supported, and all screenshots pass through a de-identification pipeline that blurs names, photos, and personal contact details before publication.
What should I submit?
Any job ad that made you stop scrolling. Unrealistic stacks, “entry-level” roles asking for 5+ years, broken application flows, ghost postings, or anything that smells off.
How do you calculate the Crowd Score?
The Crowd Score is a Rotten-Tomatoes-style metric derived from community reactions (🤡 🧟‍♂️ 🔥), votes, and reports. It reflects whether a job is seen as realistic, or pure fantasy.
For Recruiters & Companies
My company was roasted. Can I fix it?
Yes. While we don’t remove legitimate roasts, we offer JD Validator Pro, a B2B tool to audit, rewrite, and sanity-check job ads so they’re market-realistic and JobGoblin-proof before posting.
Is this legal?
Yes. TEDNE operates under satire, fair use, and commentary principles. We analyze publicly available job listings to promote transparency and better hiring practices.
How do I get my company’s “Reality Scorecard”?
Companies can subscribe to the Employer Reality Scorecard API, which lets them embed a verified transparency score on their own career pages, signaling fair and honest hiring to candidates.
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