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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There's so many other issues too, such as the fact that old job posts don't really get removed, employers/recruiters also spam multiple websites with their job posts and forget to check them, and some of the job descriptions don't even match what you go and sign up for.

No salaries mentioned on lots of posts, multi stage interviews that somehow demand your free time during work hours, so good luck interviewing for other roles while you have a job. Take home assignments that take multiple hours sometimes, sacrificing a whole evening.

Recruiters that will ask for all your information again, despite having found your phone number from your CV, and once you go through that, tell you they have nothing for you and that they'll be in touch.

Questions that mean nothing in an interview, including acronyms I haven't used or even heard of outside of interviewing for other jobs, because my job doesn't need or use them, we just do the work.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Job is listed as remote

During interview they tell you they expect you to move to bumfuck north dakota within 6 months of starting

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that is remote.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Job is listed as remote.

During the interview they tell you it only requires 2 days a week in the office. You tell them you don't have a car... they reply there are trains from where you live to where the office is located... you look it up and they're right, it's just a 2 hour commute each way. You start to think "8 hours a week, is like 1.5 hours a day for 5 days, could be worse...". Then you realize their hiring process requires 3 more on-site interviews before even getting an offer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got this with Anchorage, Alaska. How did they expect they could hoodwink somebody up to Anchorage?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, our apologies, we're in AK, you must have assumed we were in one of the other 7 Anchorages in the lower 48:

Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
New Jersey
Texas
Utah

We've never had this happen before, how strange.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Take home assignments that take multiple hours sometimes, sacrificing a whole evening.

Do NOT do this.

Taking a live proficiency test is one thing, particularly if you're applying for more senior roles, but doing actual projects for free in your spare time should be a hard pass. Full stop.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I made the mistake of doing a take home assignment once. They didn't even have the courtesy to give me feedback on it when I asked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not doing a home assignment(or work test as we call them) would mean never getting a job within the industry I work in, or at least not within the country I'm in.

And as someone that have been on both sides of this they are a great tool especially as it gives something to focus on in a technical interview. Though I would say that a requirement for this is that you always give/get actual feedback.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell industry do you work in, then?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget the tech listings that require 5 years experience in a particular programming language when the language has only even existed for the past 2 years...

Catch-22 situations, where it's impossible to meet the qualifications. 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This is part of the interview. It's to see if you can deal with project managers once you get hired.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ you just described my life for the last six months.