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Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
In the past I've had some pretty terrible interview/recruiter experiences but would like to post about my latest (very positive) one that resulted in switching from contracting back to employee, the whole process took like one business week. It was three business days from first interview to accepted written offer.
  • Day 1: Contacted by in-house recruiter I had talked to on a previous occassion. I'd been recommended by a former collegue. Replied that I might be interested as contract at current place would be ending soon.
  • Day 2: Received full details of role, tech stack, processes etc. Confirmed interest.
  • Day 3: Recruiter passed on cv, received first interview invite.
  • Day 4: First remote interview, received technical test after.
  • Day 5: Submitted technical test, second remote interview.
  • Day 6: Third remote interview, verbal offer, request for legal docs. Then later that evening, received and accepted written offer

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Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
I would rather lick a fat nerds sweaty ball sack every day for the rest of my life than go back to level 1 support.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
beep boop these human emotions don't compute, why don't you just turn up and turn time into money, any other feelings are irrelevant, paying attention to the other humans or their work is irrelevant

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
They're just following the industry standard and making sure only insufferable pricks fill architect roles.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
I think a challenge like that would tip me over the edge. If it came from a org directly I would probably take the rep hit and actually tell them to get hosed. If it's a recruiter I care about maintaining a relationship with then I guess say it in a slightly less aggressive way.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
I'm not acitively looking for a new job since I'm quite happy where I am, but I always reply to recruiters that contact me on linkedin just in case they have something real good on offer. Also to be polite, never know when I could be unemployed and need them etc. But today I had a dumb interaction.

  • Recruiter sends through a message saying they have roles avaliable with no other info and just "let me know if you're interested and I'll share more details"
  • I reply saying I'll have a look if you they send through some details, role description, a bit about the company etc
  • They say they don't have a position description but asks for my number to call for a "confidential discussion"
  • Replied with a polite "I'll pass, thanks"

I've never interacted with a recruiter trying to fill dev roles that just flat out refuse to send out some sort of initial "hook" to get attention. What is the point here? Is it just data/CV harvesting or what?

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum

echinopsis posted:

I dread work almost every single day and spend chunks of it suicidal at times. is this really as good as I can hope for?

There are many reasons to get into tech. It dependes on the role but it's usually challenging in interesting ways, plenty of job security, cash money, it's not manual labour... In general I recommend it, but I've literally never heard of someone who was depressed, moving into a tech job and having it solve their depression.

You should find a better job but also get professional help.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
things you probably shouldn't put on your cover letter:

"I have a sexual assault conviction but it doesn't affect my work"

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Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
a recruiter messaged me on linkedin and opened with "I recently helped your colleague [name here] find a new role are you open to new roles?" without any sort of prompting or previous relevant conversation.

that person hasn't handed in their notice yet and as far as I know hasn't told anyone at our org yet, some recruiters are just loving dicks

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