The saddest part is that they largely suck. Various degrees of suck but it’s mind blowing what people some firms are willing to inflict on their clients and who

The saddest part is that they largely suck. Various degrees of suck but it’s mind blowing what people some firms are willing to inflict on their clients and who some companies are willing to employ. People that are a net-drain on the company with no end in sight, You can’t help feeling bad for the situation they’re in. Totally lost and no one signed on to mentor someone who’s greener than a fresh intern but ostensibly was supposed to “hit the ground running”. The other part of this insanity that I have much less sympathy for is cheating. When I heard about Amazon’s remote interview process that involved taking over your computer and requiring specific camera angles I thought it was outrageous however I started to see why they did that after a few interviews where the person that showed up wasn’t the person we interviewed. They were of course the same people but upon arrival they had a completely different mind and (much less) knowledge. It was eerie. The only theory I can come up is that they had others listening in and either typing or speaking answers to them. While I don’t approve of that the reality is that exploitive companies put up with it, something they’d never do with market rate employees. There are some that know their shit but in my experience the ones that do don’t usually take a lower salary because they don’t need to. They’re not really part of this terrible equation.