Technology

The moment you realize a company is only a machine concerned with turning a profit and not an actual person you interact with and expect politeness and humanity out of, you'll stop feeling offended by companies ghosting you.

When a company sends you a letter to tell you your application has been rejected, it's only a courtesy extended to you by a HUMAN HR person who actually cares about behaving decently, not by the company. So enjoy the gesture when it happens, but simply ignore it when it doesn't.

There’s no reason in these days of automated systems why they can’t send out a “thanks, but not this time” email, text or whatever.

Friends and i have been sharing the same excel doc for years now. It has all the companies we have all applied to and thier respective process. Its helped weed out bad companies in our area for years.

Wr have been talking qbout making an app for years...but its easier to just do a control f or sort. And its been close to 20 years ish. Now its a libre office sheet. Its beem through many iterations.

Sometime ago I had the opportunity to interview and hire 4 interns for our team. We are a very small company and had like 300 applicants. It's brutal on both sides. I got things to do and deadlines to meet. I can only do so much. So I started replying to of the candidates that didn't make it. For us it's very technical and specific what we are looking for, but it's still hard to say sorry but you didn't make it. But regardless of what I feel, HR stepped in ...two HR people.... and they told me to stop sending closure emails. They AI crafted a single reply email and mass mailed it to the remaining people. I think with my heart as if I was the candidate. They think with whatever the fuck makes you think of people as "resources". It's probably something to do with not bankrupting the company by bringing the wrong people in and pissing off everyone else.

Some of that is true. One of our candidates turned out to be a nice guy but extremely lazy and entitled. It's hard to work with someone like that in your small team. Not only do you have to do the hard work that 20 people used to do before the pandemic lay offs but now you also gotta put up with some shit from captain know it all but only after you tech them 39 times what to know and when to know it.

Tried to submit one and it didn't seem to go through.

My hypothetical is a lot of recruiters are kind of bad at their job, but there's so many desperate candidates that they don't need to do much to get passable results.

That's why I like applying to government positions because they have like a tracker and shows you every step, and you get a response when the position closed and updates after interviews so you know your status

I have MULTIPLE spreadsheets I've kept from every job search just for this day LMAO

It would be awesome if you could localize the results. Knowing that Microsoft is one of the worst offenders helps me very little, because I live in bumfuck nowhere. However, I bet I’d find some useful stuff at https://bumfucknowhere.didtheyghostyou.com/

1. Every company does this. So this will be great if you want a database of companies that exist.

2. When you get a job, do you go back and notify all the companies that you interviewed with? Because I don't.

My advice: get as many interviews as you can. When you're done, forget about them and move on to the next one.