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I saw a post on X a few days ago from a hiring manager. She had recently filled a job posting for a senior engineer, and had received almost 650 applications. I
by danielvaughn 2y ago
I saw a post on X a few days ago from a hiring manager. She had recently filled a job posting for a senior engineer, and had received almost 650 applications. I asked her how many of them were juniors, and she said only about 120.
That's 500 senior engineers to compete with, and in this kind of market you're going to see more and more of these unfair hiring practices. If you need 10 interviews to assess a candidate, something is wrong with you.
- literallycancer 2y agoWhy do you think she's qualified to determine who's a senior and who's junior?
- danielvaughn 2y agoBecause that was her job as hiring manager and she personally reviewed them (she made that clear in the post)
- giantg2 2y agoUsually the managers rely on the TL's opinions when it comes to technical abilities, in my experience.
- giantg2 2y agoThe purpose is to make sure you have a desperate person you can force worse conditions on.
- alecco 2y agoThat sounds like most juniors are pimping out their CVs with ChatGPT.
- danielvaughn 2y agoYou’re probably right. Though I’ve applied for 70+ jobs in the last 6 months with a carefully written resume/cv sans gpt, and I haven’t had so much as a screen. It’s a depressing time.