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That has not been my experience. Names: Twitter was fucking obnoxious to deal with, and I was referred by an employee. My recruiter there only responded to m
by earl 15y ago
That has not been my experience. Names:
Twitter was fucking obnoxious to deal with, and I was referred by an employee. My recruiter there only responded to messages when I harassed her or emailed my friends working there. Phone screens took forever to set up.
A9 blew off my resume, also internally referred, for two and a half weeks then wanted to rush rush rush! when they finally contacted me and I was in late stage interviews with other companies. After I dropped what I was doing and went there for a day, they didn't even have the courtesy to contact me and say, "no thanks." I'm not pissed they didn't move forwards; it's just they are assholes w/ no class for not contacting me after I wasted a day there.
Linkedin: I turned them down because after I took a day off work to interview there, they then only used four hours, conveniently in the very middle of the day so it burned a whole day of vacation time. They then wanted me to come back again for another two meetings. Um... let me think about that. NO. If I kill a day of vacation to interview somewhere, people need to do whatever the fuck it takes so that at the end of the day, they can move forwards to reference checks or say no. I'm not giving companies two days of vacation (keeping in mind that vacation is paid out when you resign, so that's $500 per day I'm paying to interview.) Note I also have a broken leg, which they were aware of, which makes driving places more than a little inconvenient.
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoWe (Gobble.com) pay for the two-day trial (the last step after phone screen and after-hours skype session) we ask candidates to partake in -- and we only have that trial as a way for both the candidate and us to try each other out before an official offer is made. I hate it when people don't reply promptly, and I endeavor to follow-up to each stage within 24 hours either way. Then again, I am a programmer directly hiring other programmers so I know what it's like. At those bigger places, you aren't interacting with the people you'd actually work with =/ We are hiring people to hack with ruby -- nerds@gobble.com
- dangrossman 15y agoThese are still "Googles and Facebooks" compared to the rest of the country. If you were willing to leave California/Washington/New York/Boston/etc. and have any kind of decent resume you'll have a job in a heartbeat.
- blumentopf 15y agoSome more negative examples: Red Hat: Resume submitted in spring, still being reviewed. (It says so on their careers website.) Mozilla: Have a non-responsive e-mail address on their careers page, advertise jobs for months even though the hiring manager has left the company, provide zero feedback in nonacceptance e-mails (just some boilerplate text + request to connect with the recruiter on LinkedIn). One hiring manager there asked me for suggestions to solve a specific big data problem, then failed to follow up to my reply for more than two weeks. After contacting him on IRC, he sent an awkward e-mail that he'd like to postpone the project until later in the year. I sent a lengthy e-mail complaining about the ridiculously unprofessional conduct and he didn't have the grace to send any kind of response. Definitely one of the most fucked-up hiring experiences in my career.