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484 points OuterVale | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 08:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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ramon156 ◴[08 Dec 25 11:51 UTC] No.46191220[source]▶
Can I change the topic to the current hiring process?

Decline mails feel like an even bigger fuck you. Sometimes you don't get a proper reason and it leaves you confused.

There's this one company I applied to, I already knew someone there (not close or anything) and from his tone it seemed like I could help them out a lot. They simply needed more manpower, and I already worked with that stack.

I got declined via mail within an hour. How am I supposed to interpret this as "hmm, they checked my resume, had a long thought and decided it wasn't worth it to invite me for a quick 1:1"? It just screams "we either automate everything or don't even bother looking at our options".

They also finished with a "please subscribe to our newsletter".

How am I supposed to take these applications seriously if they basically tell me to fuck off?

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1. Nextgrid ◴[08 Dec 25 11:58 UTC] No.46191248[source]▶
The flipside of hiring nowadays is that any job will get thousands of spam entries from third-world countries from people who can't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag even with LLM assistance.

So yes in your case it's likely the application got automatically filtered out for a myriad of reasons it is not in their best interests to disclose, lest the monkeys adapt their spam to match.

What we need is a serious hiring marketplace where both sides put down a huge deposit they lose in case of misbehavior; whether it's lying on resumes or unfair rejections.