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An additional data point (read: anecdote): I applied for a job at Hashicorp in early July of this year. I have yet to receive any reply, including a "thanks but

An additional data point (read: anecdote): I applied for a job at Hashicorp in early July of this year. I have yet to receive any reply, including a "thanks but no thanks" For reference, I also have a friend who applied there in late 2019; he apparently _did_ get a "thanks but no thanks" email about a month later. Perhaps all of the company is short-staffed, rather than just engineering.

whimsicalism 5y ago
I've applied to plenty of much larger and established companies without getting a thanks but no thanks. Twitter has the audacity to email a year after my application to let me know that I was "still under consideration." Google ended my hiring loop by having my emails to my recruiter bounce. So this is not just a shaky company problem.
- secfirstmd 5y ago
  My Twitter experience: Applied, rejected within a day, got an email from a hiring manager four weeks later asking me to re-apply, very sorry etc etc, bad screener he had to look over everything again. I re-apply, two interviews, asked to do a presentation and then a video on strategic threats to the org, spent two days of my holiday doing it (tight schedule from Twitter), sent, no reply for two weeks, get an email back saying they wanted it to be more tactical. I pointed out what they said (it needs to be strategic), they come back two weeks later, very sorry etc, they would love to move me to next stage, one week later hiring manager doesn't turn up for interview, two days later apologises, asks me to meet with his senior manager in two weeks. I agree. Recruiter then turns around and says, sorry not what they are looking for. No other explanation. Next day emails me asking would I apply for another position. I say, "Hmmm not so sure. Perhaps. What's the comp?" He says "Great, I think you will fit well. I will go check it." Then ghosted... Was a cool role. But still. I'm in a position were I am also interviewing the people on the other side of the table. I'd love to have helped build something they needed about that fusion and analysis. But sorry, in that context, just not good enough. That's my first dealing with your company. Why should I trust anything else will be better?
  - aliswe 5y ago
    contact their head of hr/recruitment.
    - secfirstmd 5y ago
      I took an offer elsewhere. Twitter would have been fun as Mudge was invoked with that team.
  - softwarebeware 5y ago
    Hahaha Twitter in Seattle at least is infamous for experiences like this from my acquaintances and friends. I somehow got into an on-site there once only to find that the team I’m interviewing for doesn’t unit test anything or write any Scala, they’re not familiar with consistent hashing, and a bunch of other curious things that contradict what I had been told about the job and the company.
NetOpWibby 5y ago
Seems like they’ve never improved their process. I was put through an interview gauntlet and then ignored. The experience prompted lively discussion three years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127697 New HN entry for the updated blog post link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29116611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29116611

whimsicalism 5y ago

I've applied to plenty of much larger and established companies without getting a thanks but no thanks. Twitter has the audacity to email a year after my application to let me know that I was "still under consideration." Google ended my hiring loop by having my emails to my recruiter bounce. So this is not just a shaky company problem.

secfirstmd 5y ago
My Twitter experience: Applied, rejected within a day, got an email from a hiring manager four weeks later asking me to re-apply, very sorry etc etc, bad screener he had to look over everything again. I re-apply, two interviews, asked to do a presentation and then a video on strategic threats to the org, spent two days of my holiday doing it (tight schedule from Twitter), sent, no reply for two weeks, get an email back saying they wanted it to be more tactical. I pointed out what they said (it needs to be strategic), they come back two weeks later, very sorry etc, they would love to move me to next stage, one week later hiring manager doesn't turn up for interview, two days later apologises, asks me to meet with his senior manager in two weeks. I agree. Recruiter then turns around and says, sorry not what they are looking for. No other explanation. Next day emails me asking would I apply for another position. I say, "Hmmm not so sure. Perhaps. What's the comp?" He says "Great, I think you will fit well. I will go check it." Then ghosted... Was a cool role. But still. I'm in a position were I am also interviewing the people on the other side of the table. I'd love to have helped build something they needed about that fusion and analysis. But sorry, in that context, just not good enough. That's my first dealing with your company. Why should I trust anything else will be better?
- aliswe 5y ago
  contact their head of hr/recruitment.
  - secfirstmd 5y ago
    I took an offer elsewhere. Twitter would have been fun as Mudge was invoked with that team.
- softwarebeware 5y ago
  Hahaha Twitter in Seattle at least is infamous for experiences like this from my acquaintances and friends. I somehow got into an on-site there once only to find that the team I’m interviewing for doesn’t unit test anything or write any Scala, they’re not familiar with consistent hashing, and a bunch of other curious things that contradict what I had been told about the job and the company.

NetOpWibby 5y ago

Seems like they’ve never improved their process. I was put through an interview gauntlet and then ignored. The experience prompted lively discussion three years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127697 New HN entry for the updated blog post link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29116611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29116611