Spent four years in college, went $60k in debt for it, and I still have to take fucking personality tests as part of the interview process for the one fucking interview I get for every 50+ jobs I apply to. Not to mention that entry level jobs are basically nonexistant and professional workplaces only care to get employees that already have experience from God knows where. So that leaves us starting out in our careers with the strategy of “fake it till you make it”, which creates further scrutiny during the interview processes. But no, apparently the problem is that people are too lazy. Fuck everything about the hiring process these days.
Friends would get mad at me for how much I’d lie in interviews. Now, they see why I did. Interview questions like “why u wanna work here” or “where u see yourself in the next x years” dumbass shut up it’s a warehouse you pay me to pick things up and put them down. Now I work in places that pay more because I specialized in some areas but the idea is the same. Interviewers don’t even care if you do your job, they just care that everything is running smooth and their boss is happy by whatever metric they use to judge “smooth”. Learning that distinction saved me a lot of headache.
I’ve been a software engineer for 30 years. The only thing that’s changed in this process is they no longer have to even have humans involved in the hiring process until after 98% of the applicants have been shit-canned.
It’s up to us to figure out their criteria, of course, and they will always lowball the pay.
Spent four years in college, went $60k in debt for it, and I still have to take fucking personality tests as part of the interview process for the one fucking interview I get for every 50+ jobs I apply to. Not to mention that entry level jobs are basically nonexistant and professional workplaces only care to get employees that already have experience from God knows where. So that leaves us starting out in our careers with the strategy of “fake it till you make it”, which creates further scrutiny during the interview processes. But no, apparently the problem is that people are too lazy. Fuck everything about the hiring process these days.
Friends would get mad at me for how much I’d lie in interviews. Now, they see why I did. Interview questions like “why u wanna work here” or “where u see yourself in the next x years” dumbass shut up it’s a warehouse you pay me to pick things up and put them down. Now I work in places that pay more because I specialized in some areas but the idea is the same. Interviewers don’t even care if you do your job, they just care that everything is running smooth and their boss is happy by whatever metric they use to judge “smooth”. Learning that distinction saved me a lot of headache.
I’ve been a software engineer for 30 years. The only thing that’s changed in this process is they no longer have to even have humans involved in the hiring process until after 98% of the applicants have been shit-canned.
It’s up to us to figure out their criteria, of course, and they will always lowball the pay.