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A business novel by Jimmy Willis

The Irresistible Tech Candidate

12/18/26

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The Irresistible Tech Candidate

On the verge of succumbing to a life of unemployment, a timid QA engineer discovers that the job market is rigged and sets off to reverse-engineer the system; but when the playbook he's built finally starts working, he must learn to overcome his fear of being seen before the worst job market of all time shuts him out forever.

12/18/26

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Jimmy Willis

Jimmy Willis

Jimmy Willis, a Senior Manager of Data Engineering, spent two years interviewing recruiters, hiring managers, and rejected candidates at some of the world's most competitive tech companies, from Google and JP Morgan to Deloitte, to figure out one thing: why qualified people keep getting passed over.

The stories he heard were too good to boil down into bullet points, so he turned them into one. The Irresistible Tech Candidate follows Alejandro through every trap those people fell into, and shows you how to navigate one of the most competitive tech job markets of all time.

40+Insider interviews
5Top companies
4Systems exposed

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The email he wasn't meant to read.

Alejandro Ortega had sent 287 applications and heard nothing back. Then a hiring committee CC'd him by mistake.

He stopped asking why the system wasn't working and started documenting how it does.

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