Unholy/Syn(ACK) :facepalm: on Nostr: What it's like trying to find a job in the tech industry these days: <li>Wade through ...
What it's like trying to find a job in the tech industry these days: <li>Wade through hundreds or thousands of nearly identical job descriptions to find the ones where you have the majority or all of the "required" experience.</li><li>Spend 20 minutes filling out the application (which are all the same but never carry over from one corpo to the next)</li><li>Wait days or weeks to get a response (which is 9 times out of 10 negative, or maybe 9.9 times out of 10)</li><li>If the response is positive, begin another cycle of 4-6 interviews with multiple people at each stage (roughly around 10 - 12 people total)</li><li>do multiple coding problems, design problems, and b.s. assessment tests during the process</li><li>stick with the process for the weeks (or months) it takes to get all the cats herded</li><li>finally get bounced out of the process somewhere in the latter stages after all that work with a nebulous and generic "thanks but no thanks" with no good explanation as to why</li>
Just those first 3 steps are exhausting and then, if you can even get your foot in the door, you've still got months to go before you get an offer, which you're not likely to get even after all that effort.
And these corpos wonder why they "can't find qualified workers" or workers "that want to work for them". Talk about tone-deaf.
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