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Hiring at Meta is like this. You pass the onsite interview before you even get to “team matching” which means they don’t even know they need you yet when you’ve

Hiring at Meta is like this. You pass the onsite interview before you even get to “team matching” which means they don’t even know they need you yet when you’ve passed the interviews. > applying to 60 jobs and only hearing back from two Really makes you wonder what “service” these job platforms are providing if a significant amount of their jobs are fake.

SoftTalker 2y ago
Yeah so job boards are as fake and gamed as the rest of the popular internet. Big surprise. I wonder what the other side looks like. Do people using Indeed and other services to find employees get real applicants? Or is it mostly auto-generated garbage? I'm imagining a world where nobody human actually uses these sites, it's all bots applying to scraped and auto-posted jobs.
- marcosdumay 2y ago
  Sometimes you see people with the complaints from the other side here. It looks like recruiters filter the mass of fake applications, and only send real people to the companies. From those real people almost everybody is comically unprepared, and most attempts at filling a job fail.
- doodaddy 2y ago
  Of the thousands or so resumes I've received on Indeed, I have advanced maybe a dozen into an initial screening stage. The vast majority was basically spam - applicants with backgrounds that didn't match the job at all or new grad applicants for a posting that clearly stated we were looking for experienced candidates. Then there was the terrible auto-formatting that Indeed would apply to candidates' resumes, sometimes being so jumbled as to be illegible. It made it seem as if there was no one behind the submission checking to make sure their information was being sent correctly.
  - harimau777 2y ago
    I realize this isn't exactly an earth shattering, but for the new grad applicants I think that's an understandable reaction to the way that job postings are written. Even when every listing isn't asking for the moon for an entry level positions, most job postings list so many desired skills that no one could actually be qualified.
marcosdumay 2y ago
> they need you yet when you’ve passed the interviews But they are usually open to hiring you. That's not a ghost job. (Or better, it only becomes a ghost job from a handful of weeks prior to a couple of weeks after a layoff.)
- darrylb42 2y ago
  This is worse than a ghost job. HR running the hiring process when no team has a position. Even worse for the person applying as they are wasting more time than just sending their resume and cover letter to /dev/null @ corp.

SoftTalker 2y ago

Yeah so job boards are as fake and gamed as the rest of the popular internet. Big surprise. I wonder what the other side looks like. Do people using Indeed and other services to find employees get real applicants? Or is it mostly auto-generated garbage? I'm imagining a world where nobody human actually uses these sites, it's all bots applying to scraped and auto-posted jobs.

marcosdumay 2y ago
Sometimes you see people with the complaints from the other side here. It looks like recruiters filter the mass of fake applications, and only send real people to the companies. From those real people almost everybody is comically unprepared, and most attempts at filling a job fail.
doodaddy 2y ago
Of the thousands or so resumes I've received on Indeed, I have advanced maybe a dozen into an initial screening stage. The vast majority was basically spam - applicants with backgrounds that didn't match the job at all or new grad applicants for a posting that clearly stated we were looking for experienced candidates. Then there was the terrible auto-formatting that Indeed would apply to candidates' resumes, sometimes being so jumbled as to be illegible. It made it seem as if there was no one behind the submission checking to make sure their information was being sent correctly.
- harimau777 2y ago
  I realize this isn't exactly an earth shattering, but for the new grad applicants I think that's an understandable reaction to the way that job postings are written. Even when every listing isn't asking for the moon for an entry level positions, most job postings list so many desired skills that no one could actually be qualified.

marcosdumay 2y ago

> they need you yet when you’ve passed the interviews But they are usually open to hiring you. That's not a ghost job. (Or better, it only becomes a ghost job from a handful of weeks prior to a couple of weeks after a layoff.)

darrylb42 2y ago
This is worse than a ghost job. HR running the hiring process when no team has a position. Even worse for the person applying as they are wasting more time than just sending their resume and cover letter to /dev/null @ corp.