36 Different Types of Programmers Meme

Authoritarian

VR Chat Dev

Has a PhD

Actively targets CS majors

victim of MKULTRA

Masters Student

All their friends are employed

Rogrets pursuing higher education

Hasn’t been outside since March 2020

CCP Cybersecurity

Engineer

Independent

Game Developer

Proudly steals

games for $4.99 on Steam, sells 3 copies total per month

on behalf of the CCP

Legacy Codebase

Programmer

Maintains a codebase

Only person in the

company

Linux Kernel

Engineer

Has a git alias

The CS Professor

knows crery data structure, can’t center a div in CSS

commands

Doesn’t even own a computer.

all Homework is done on paper

Devops

Hasn’t slept for 72 hours

On call 24/7

Can’t get another job because all

Fixes critical bugs,

Unemployed

Asp.Net Dev

Graduate

Only knows Ce and SQL,

thinks every new language is a passing

Has a decent GPA, can’t write a resume

fad Will not touch a computer outside of work

Applied to 200 jobs,

Laid Off Engineer

replaced by a new graduate anyway

Linkedin profile updated

Open To Work”

Minecraft Modder

Will literally only program for

Minecraft

All-Women Startup

1.7M followers on Linkedin, dilligently posting about toxic male culture in STEM

“Disrupting”

Has an office in an upcoming

Nashville

Carbon Developer

Language released 2 weeks ago, somehow already an expert

Vill fervently defend Carbon on slll forms of social media

177.3K points on Stack Overflow

Knows deep down

athan will he

abandoned by Googl anyway

Open-Source

Developer

Started coding after they watched the Matrix

AAA Game Dev

Worked 98 hours this week

Tries to interact with gamers on witter, gets targed for chameters

in their game

JavaScript Dev Never went to college, started programming at age 7

Lives off

Knows

17 IS

rameworks

Burnt out by age 25

Developed entire Cr

has $10 in their

Investment Firm

Developer

One of 3 devs in the whole company

Misde S66k in bonuses

Government

Contractor

Makes below-average salary

Projeot ended 6 months ago, gets paid

Browses Reddit all day

FAANG Engineer

Has solved every Leetcode program

Makes $300k/year, doesn’t spend it

Will code after

work

L

Severe Aspergers

no rol

Data Science

Engineer

Doneer moo

Statistics degree

Works for an

Eastern European

Developer

Makes $15k/year

Will accept any GitLab ticket, doesn’t argue

Empornium Admin

Expert in peer-to-peer data transfer

Website UI hasn’t changed since

Growing collection

Libertarian

Lockheed Martin

Rocket Telemetry

Engineer

Top-secret clearance

Devout patriot

Siste monuts

The Fed

Hunts child predators on the deep web

Active member of 27 extremist Discord

went to school on

GI Bill benefits

Engineer on

HR-mandated

Paid Leave

ample evidence of sexual harasament on Microsoft Teams logs

Will get fired in 2 weeks

Electrical Engineer

Took one programming class in college 70% of their job now is writing code

Spent countless hours learning MatLab, will never use it in their career

NSA cybersecurity asset

Will be assassinated by the government vis remote car hack after they’ve completed their

00019

The Saudi

Exchange Student

Went to an American university

Returned to

The Job Hopper

Will switch jobs every 12 months, set:

Knows not to talk

Contributes bare

spends all day on 4Chan

John McAfee

Wanted by federal authorities had a chance to cush out carly,

1462

Dies under questionable

circumstances

Python Developer

Will never use another language

Spends 5 hours automating 5 minute

Defense Contractor

Contributes to development of autonomous weapons

“Someone will do it anyway”

Schizophrenic

Developer

Developed Tempicos

Has a

documentary by Nexpo and Wendigoon

Silk Road Admin

Wanted by the FBI

Only uses public WiFI and Tails