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Do you? I’m curious to see how many people reply “never”.

If you do get AI cover letters, how does that affect the applicant?

I started to timidly poke my nose in the job market, anticipating a ship jumping within the next year or so. It strikes me that there’s a staggering amount of crypto jobs. Blockchain, NFT, instant messaging, payment, you name it.

Is the crypto space experiencing such a high growth on all fronts that so many crypto startups pop up everywhere or are these just YOLO’ing their way forward until they run out of cash? And by the way, who is funding them? Are investors actually convinced that any random crypto project can become the next unicorn?

It all seems like a giant scam to me, and I’m very wary of applying to these companies. Am I being overly conservative?

I’m seeing an increasing trend of job applicants who ghost the company after the first contact. For our latest job opening we received north of 300 applications of which a solid 15-20% have been contacted back. Not a single applicant has ever replied thereafter. Some have replied to schedule a first meeting and simply didn’t show up.

If it happened to my company only, I’d start questioning our HR procedure and the approach, or language, of our recruiter. However several of my friends and peers reported the same kind of story.

Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man but... is this the new normal in recruitment? Is it a collective revenge against companies that ghost candidates?

I recently spoke with a Googler friend (not an engineer) who told me that Go adoption within Google itself is quite limited.

Is that actually the case? Beside the very team that maintains the language, what other teams/products do use Go as their main programming language?