No scams, few rejections/non-responses, no AI, no take home test, no real shenanigans. Just recruiters reaching out with job specs asking if interested.
Maybe it's because I'm in a fairly niche area that has "small world" vibes so everyone behaves to protect their rep
Of the jobs I interviewed for, all of them were similar. Three companies were seriously interested, and I got one reject, and two offers (plus 2-5 interviews that didn't go anywhere).
It seemed that only SV companies had these interviewing headaches, and I suspect it's currently better than ever. Keep in mind that companies have asked about the shape of manholes and the north pole, circa the 90s and early millennium.
As always, your mileage will vary.
Because I consider the interview process to be me determining the suitability of the potential employer as much as the potential employer determining the suitability of me, the couple of exception I mentioned resulted in me bailing out of the process.
If that's how a company is for the hiring process, I can only surmise that working there would be full of the same sort of nonsense.
In Berlin there's a famous club that doesn't let anyone in. Okay, so they aren't that exclusive, but they turn away a ton of people, even if they purchased tickets...
... now every club in Germany has door policy and is trying to channel their energy.
Recently my phone-screen -> actual interview percentage has gone WAY down. It feels shady, like the recruiters _are_ now just fishing for information and not actually looking to hire.
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That doesn't sound like a huge deal, but when you have an active day job that is potentially not close to your house and doing RTO, it can be very hard to find a good place to take these interviews. Especially now that 5 interviews is considered normal, and since they're "online" people seem to expect that they can schedule them "whenever."
For some people, it's easier to take 1 day off work to go do a series of interviews than to fit 5 different one-hour interviews at different times over the course of a week.
If the company scheduled the zoom calls all in one block, then ya, zoom would still be more convenient than in person.
Otherwise, people seem to like virtual interviews, esp whiteboards. Less stress.
Smaller companies and startups tend to have much faster hiring processes
And in the end all I did was make slide decks. And then I progressed onto how to tell people how to make slide decks. Not a thing mentioned in the interviews was necessary in my day to day work. It was one of the worst working experiences in my life.
It's been a struggle. I have more luck securing work cold calling businesses within my field. Online applications are a joke from my experience.
this is over the line if true. Without pay that work isnt theirs, and shouldnt be allowed to display it without his permission
> Even legitimate companies are posting “ghost jobs” that they don’t actually ever fill. Employers post ghost jobs to get a pool of candidates that they may use someday, to give the impression that their company is growing, and to keep current employees motivated
learn2code was the beginning of the end.
It's been such a pain just getting to talk to the first actual person.
