I don’t think I’ve ever used a cv
More like
- Send 157 CV’s
- Somehow pass the AI gauntlet to get an HR screener
- Interview with someone else in HR that knows about development, lightly
- Interview with the hiring manager
- Interview again with the hiring manager, and their manager
- Interview again with an actual developer on the team / technical interview
- Get automated rejection email 2 months later
- Be me.
- Apply for job listing that requires Python experience.
- /home/tootsweet/python_projects/python_genius.py
- Called and invited to team interview.
- Arrive dressed like perfect corporate cog, leather binder in hand.
- “Do you know C#?”
- Listing never mentioned C#.
- Me: “No.”
- “We’re switching from Python to C#.”
- Didn’t get the job.
Later worked with former employees of
$aforementioned_employer. They have a terrible habit of hiring in droves, only to lay off half their workforce every few years.I guess OP never applied for a job outside of software engineering? Other people have their own chain of pointless assessment centers and interviews with everyone to get that sweet rejection at the end.
I had a little brother that applied to Aldi’s. Like as a cashier and/or stocker. 3 interviews then rejection
Don’t know if it’s still a thing in hiring for minimum wage jobs - what I remember were all the meyers briggs and similar test. When someone tells me their personality type from one of those test, I instantly start thinking that they never had a retail hell job stage of their working life
IDK how common this is, but there are stories of companies that make you work on real production code in the interview. Basically suckering you into free work before they give the position to the boss’s cousin or something.
I’ve heard about this kind of shit, but never seen it myself.
I dont even get rejection, there is just no reply from the other side. Where am I in this meme?
No feedback email either. Possibly just ghosted.
if you want feedback, don’t bother doing any of the coding challenges/tests and they’ll send you a “we’re disappointed” email. lol
I have interviewed people for a long long time, and unless they were egregiously bad (obviously cheating, or failed every part of the technical) I have always written them a paragraph of feedback.
Every single candidate. It’s not hard, takes 5 minutes
you’re a unicorn! lol
It’s just basic respect.
one that’s no longer extended and i’m glad to hear you do it.
Sometimes hiring managers aren’t allowed to provide any feedback because it can create legal liability.
But usually they just don’t want to.
How does it create liability to say “I’d like to have more advanced Python skills, specifically the using object oriented code to structure a solution to the problem”
I feel like society has gone insane. Don’t do anything, it might upset someone, or you could step on someone’s emotional support ant, and we’ll get sued!
It doesn’t, but someone could write something that did. Like referring to an incorrect answer that the candidate then wants to prove in court was actually correct, and so they were unfairly rejected.
So either you screen every piece feedback by the legal team, which would be very expensive, or you just don’t give feedback as a rule.
I’m not saying this makes sense - it doesn’t - just saying that’s the rationale that leads to it.
yeah most companies don’t even bother with the courtesy email anymore
