It’s bad. Very bad.
I spent the past month or so looking for my first job out or school. And so many places make you jump through hoops or have humiliation session interviews.
The place I accepted the offer from called me once for screening. Then set up a technical interview.
The technical interview was half of it talking about who I am. What I like to do. What I want to work on etc. and the other half them explaining what the job is, why it’s a great opportunity etc.
Next day I got the offer. Simplest process ever and not humiliating at all. Felt like the exception. There are decent people out there still.
And often, the places with all the hoops are terrible places to work. Because guess what, they make you jump through hoops to do your job, and everything else.
So your technical interview was a regular interview and not a technical one?
Pretty much.
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Why is Anne Hathaway looking at me like she’s my kid brother and mom just said it’s his turn to use the computer?
Ugh I got an email like that just a few days ago. “Make a 3min video explaining why you want to work for us and what you bring to the table”. I sway back and forth between refusing to be their stupid dancing monkey and being desperate enough for a new job to consider it. The company itself seems like a shitshow (an AI startup that works with insurance companies) but the job posting itself is in exactly the niche I like with the exactly the technologies I specialize in and the pay is extremely competitive. Honestly idk if I’m gonna go for it or if I have any ounce of self-respect.
Please enter all the lines of your résumé separately in our form.
.mov or. mov 👁️👄👁️
Also please complete this live brief that’s not actually a test, we just want the work doing for free.
I only decided to agree to an automated interview once and it wasn’t worth it. First there was just knowledge test in form of quiz, which after completing with decent result they invited me to second stage and it required me to read a question in 10s and then record my response from webcam in 30s. It was cringe af and I hated it, but decided to just swallow it at that point. Then they invited me to 3rd stage. When I learned that it’s also automated and involves webcam I said thank you. No more. If it was just the initial quiz I’d think they’re smart to filter out people who lie in resume, but 3 stages and I can’t still talk to a human - no thanks.
Hey this happened to me ! In retrospect, shouldn’t have continued the application at that point
Down for a round 2? I don’t have a job but i’d certainly love to see you begging
I’ll need financial compensation
Brb, starting a gofundme. We’re both jobless bums.
Me: I renewed my license this year.
Them: how does a $50k sign-on bonus sound?
Me: extremely suspicious.
I don’t this one. Is this an adobe thing i’m too FOSS to understand?
My favorite was, upload you resume after spending 45 minutes filling out the exact same shit. You know no one is looking at your resume at all.
.mov? What is this? The dark ages?
All video recorded on an iDevice defaults to HEVC h.265 .mov. QuickTime is dead (at least to the public) but the codecs are an industry standard.
why do they need all three formats of video
Grok, generate a CV, cover letter, and video so I get the job. Make it so good that they double the offered payment.
