I'm getting a lot of recruiter spam lately, but a lot of it is low effort and AI driven. A local unicorn reached out recently on LinkedIn with what looked like

I'm getting a lot of recruiter spam lately, but a lot of it is low effort and AI driven. A local unicorn reached out recently on LinkedIn with what looked like an organic message, so I gave them a chance. The interviewer was stand-offish and bitter. I then checked out their LinkedIn page and they had laid off 10% of their workforce in the previous 6 months. I am not a big fan of interviewing, but I have noticed a corporatization trend among small companies, where they tell you things like "it's up to the hiring manager" which means they are not actually hiring anybody, or you are making enough money that you are out of their league, etc. One of the things I miss the most about the 2020-2022 period is how honest those companies used to be, and how smoothly money was flowing even for the average Joe.