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My biggest complaints about trying to find a job today are: * Recruiters ghosting/not following up. * Companies post dozens of job openings, I apply, nobody f
by eek2121 3y ago
My biggest complaints about trying to find a job today are:
* Recruiters ghosting/not following up.
* Companies post dozens of job openings, I apply, nobody follows up (even with a rejection) but keeps posting new positions (looking at you Aha!)
The pay issue hasn’t come up except twice. One company wanted a senior engineer, but only wanted to pay 60k/year tops and you would be on call.
Another company wanted a “volunteer”.
There are other issues for sure. For some companies I do suspect age
discrimination, especially with startups.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoThe non responses are really demoralizing. I can take a form rejection letter. You can even lie to me and say the position is closed. Just do not leave me hanging with some scrap of hope.
- wyclif 3y agoThere's a startup in the latest HN "Who's Hiring" that flat-out asked for recent grads (past 2 years) or not-yet grads. Ageism is probably the last frontier of job discrimination.
- LtWorf 3y agoYou don't want experienced people who won't work loads of pointless overtime for free after all…
- SupremumLimit 3y agoAha! advertises as far as New Zealand and I also never heard back when I applied. The excuse they supply (at least they do that much…) is that they receive too many applications to respond to everyone. But then why advertise all over the world? A scummy tactic when I think about it.