{"id":15650,"date":"2025-04-04T07:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T07:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T07:15:33","slug":"software-engineers-promise-10k-if-you-help-them-find-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/software-engineers-promise-10k-if-you-help-them-find-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Engineers Promise $10K If You Help Them Find Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Would you pay to land a job?<\/p>\n<p>A software engineer went viral last month after promising to pay upwards of $10,000 to anyone who can help them find a relevant six-figure job. It worked \u2014 and now it&#8217;s becoming a trend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/argenisdelarosa\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Argenis De La Rosa<\/a>, a computer science undergraduate at the Harvard Extension School, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/argenisdelarosa_softwareengineer-softwaredeveloper-programmer-activity-7297293002341769217-CnY_?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAEX6goEB2tL-TT1GOWv7IHKjJQsUAsiyhck\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">wrote in a LinkedIn post<\/a> that he would give someone the five-figure sum if they helped him land a software developer role.<\/p>\n<p>De La Rosa said that he would create a contract for both parties to sign, ensuring that whenever he started getting paid in his six-figure role, he would pay off the $10,000 debt in increments. The deal would only go through if he received an offer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/pay-off-my-debt-tiktoker-on-money-made-icarly-inspiration\/475184\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;Pay Off My Debt&#8217; TikToker Explains How Much Money He Made from His Viral Video and the Inspiration for the Trend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I get paid, you get paid,&#8221; De La Rosa wrote in a LinkedIn post with over 400 reactions. &#8220;It&#8217;s that simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7297293001809100801?collapsed=1\" title=\"Embedded post\" width=\"504\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>De La Rosa told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/software-engineer-offers-thousands-job-referral-linkedin-2025-4\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\"><i>Business Insider<\/i><\/a> that he received &#8220;nonstop&#8221; messages from interested people in the first 24 hours after he posted. The messages included mentorship or referral offers from engineers at tech companies, though some were &#8220;very sketchy&#8221; sales pitches, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He told the outlet that he quickly received three job interview offers in the month since the post went live, though he is still looking for full-time work.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Ryan Prescott, a Maine-based engineer, saw De La Rosa&#8217;s post and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/ryanpdev_softwareengineer-softwaredeveloper-programmer-activity-7299093932972359680-0lak?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAEX6goEB2tL-TT1GOWv7IHKjJQsUAsiyhck\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">made his own<\/a>. The only difference between the posts is that Prescott asked more specifically for a software developer role paying at least $120,000, not just for a six-figure salary.<\/p>\n<p>Prescott&#8217;s LinkedIn post went viral when an X user screenshotted it and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/signulll\/status\/1894036591326146583\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">posted it on X<\/a>. The post gathered 1.6 million views on Elon Musk&#8217;s app.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>i&#8217;ve never seen anything like this before\u2014this takes &#8220;open to work&#8221; to an entirely new level. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nWNGcd2yMJ\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">pic.twitter.com\/nWNGcd2yMJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 sign\u00fcll (@signulll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/signulll\/status\/1894036591326146583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After Prescott posted, a startup CEO contacted him about a senior front-end engineer role. Prescott went through multiple rounds of interviews and ultimately landed the role. Because his boss was the one who reached out, Prescott won&#8217;t be paying the $10,000. However, Prescott says that the post helped him get noticed in a crowded market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would really just encourage more people to differentiate themselves in strange and remarkable ways,&#8221; Prescott told <i>BI<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7299093932112556032?collapsed=1\" title=\"Embedded post\" width=\"504\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other LinkedIn members wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/argenisdelarosa_softwareengineer-softwaredeveloper-programmer-activity-7298128991863857152-E2RP?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAEX6goEB2tL-TT1GOWv7IHKjJQsUAsiyhck\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">similar posts<\/a> over the past month, and some even increased how much they were willing to pay for help getting a developer job.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Philippe Leb\u0153uf, a senior product engineer looking for work, wrote that he was willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7299928674277965824\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">pay $30,000<\/a> to anyone who helped him find a remote job paying at least $120,000. Ray Morrison, a software engineer, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7299963455611015168\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">he would pay $15,000<\/a> in increments of $500 per month for anyone who helped him land a role with a salary of at least $140,000.<\/p>\n<p>Tech hiring has dropped by at least 20% in August 2024 compared to August 2018, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/news\/story\/white-collar-recession-hits-tech-6250412\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">LinkedIn data<\/a>. Software engineering roles are down by 26%, IT by 27%, and project management by 25% in that time frame.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/its-taking-longer-for-unemployed-americans-to-find-work\/485175\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;Really Hard to Find a Job&#8217;: 1.7 Million Job Seekers Have Been Looking for Work for at Least 6 Months<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/software-engineers-promise-10k-if-you-help-them-find-work\/489531\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you pay to land a job? A software engineer went viral last month after promising to pay upwards of $10,000 to anyone who can help them find a relevant six-figure job. It worked \u2014 and now it&#8217;s becoming a trend. Argenis De La Rosa, a computer science undergraduate at the Harvard Extension School, wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.entrepreneur.com\/content\/3x2\/2000\/1743711262-Software-engineer-GettyImages-2027690301.jpg?format=pjeg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15652,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions\/15652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}