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As someone currently job searching it hasn’t changed much, besides companies adding DO NOT USE AI warnings before every section. Even Anthropic forces you to wr

by vrosas 2y ago

As someone currently job searching it hasn’t changed much, besides companies adding DO NOT USE AI warnings before every section. Even Anthropic forces you to write a little “why do you want to work here DO NOT USE AI” paragraph. The irony.

Pooge 2y ago
They will very happily use AI to evaluate your profile, though :)
- pizzalife 2y ago
  Applying at Anthropic was a bad experience for me. I was invited to do a timed set of leetcode exercises on some website. I didn't feel like doing that, and focused on my other applications. Then they emailed me a month later after my "invitation" expired. It looked like it was written by a human: "Hey, we're really interested in your profile, here's a new invite link, please complete this automated pre-screen thingie". So I swallowed my pride and went through with that humiliating exercise. Ended up spending two hours doing algorithmic leetcode problems. This was for a product security position. Maybe we could have talked about vulnerabilities that I have found instead. I was too slow to solve them and received some canned response.
- x0x0 2y ago
  fyi, that's because (from experience) the last job req I publicly posted generated almost 450 responses, and (quite generously) over a third were simply not relevant. It was for a full-stack rails eng. Here, I'm not even including people whose experience was django or even React; I mean people with no web experience at all, or were not in the time zone requested. Another 20% or so were nowhere near the experience level (senior) requested either. The price of people bulk applying with no thought is I have to bulk filter.
  - Pooge 2y ago
    So you allow yourself to use AI in order to save time, but we have to put up with the shit[1] companies make up? That's good, it's for the best if I don't work for a company that thinks so lowly of its potential candidates. [1]: Including but not limited to: having to manually fill a web form because the system couldn't correctly parse a CV; take-home coding challenges; studying for LeetCode interviews; sending a perfectly worded, boot-licking cover letter.

by vrosas 2y ago

Pooge 2y ago

They will very happily use AI to evaluate your profile, though :)

pizzalife 2y ago
Applying at Anthropic was a bad experience for me. I was invited to do a timed set of leetcode exercises on some website. I didn't feel like doing that, and focused on my other applications. Then they emailed me a month later after my "invitation" expired. It looked like it was written by a human: "Hey, we're really interested in your profile, here's a new invite link, please complete this automated pre-screen thingie". So I swallowed my pride and went through with that humiliating exercise. Ended up spending two hours doing algorithmic leetcode problems. This was for a product security position. Maybe we could have talked about vulnerabilities that I have found instead. I was too slow to solve them and received some canned response.
x0x0 2y ago
fyi, that's because (from experience) the last job req I publicly posted generated almost 450 responses, and (quite generously) over a third were simply not relevant. It was for a full-stack rails eng. Here, I'm not even including people whose experience was django or even React; I mean people with no web experience at all, or were not in the time zone requested. Another 20% or so were nowhere near the experience level (senior) requested either. The price of people bulk applying with no thought is I have to bulk filter.
- Pooge 2y ago
  So you allow yourself to use AI in order to save time, but we have to put up with the shit[1] companies make up? That's good, it's for the best if I don't work for a company that thinks so lowly of its potential candidates. [1]: Including but not limited to: having to manually fill a web form because the system couldn't correctly parse a CV; take-home coding challenges; studying for LeetCode interviews; sending a perfectly worded, boot-licking cover letter.