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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.
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2025 11:35 |
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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.
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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
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They're just following the industry standard and making sure only insufferable pricks fill architect roles.
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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.
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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.
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?
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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.
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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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# ¿ Feb 11, 2025 11:35 |
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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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