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say it with me: GET OVER IT CORPOS, MEATSPACE IS DEPRECATED.

So fucking true. I've was in an interview, 2nd round, where the recruiter joined the call mid coding exercise to explain that a different recruiter had just given the position to someone else without waiting for feedback on anyone else and therefore they had to stop all in process interviews. She was pissed and apologized. The guy giving the interview just gave me this look like "they do this shit all the time" and ended the call.

taco: YOU TOLD ME THIS BRAIN SHIP HAD NO SIDE EFFECTS WHAT THE FUCK MELON

melon: OH HOLY JESUS FUCK I TOOK TOO MUCH

yeah, it's a pretty shitty deal all around for the people trying to keep shit functioning.

I find zoom calls to be much more helpful than in person. In person I have to bring my laptop, point to things, find a place where we can both sit, and probably send you code snippets over chat anyway, not to mention literally looking over your shoulder.

meatspace is deprecated, get over it corpos.

Tech recruiters really can be this dumb. I've been on both ends several times.

I remember hiring for a test dev, writing the description for the recruiter, I included all the things I'd like to see. Python, test automation experience, open source contributions etc (this was for a public facing repo).

I get back a question a day later asking if they need Java or not. That felt really out of place so I walked over and had a conversation. Turns out they were filtering out anyone who had more than requested. Python AND Java experience? No thank you.

On the upside once we ironed that out I ended up hiring two people I've been friends with for a decade+. Sometimes the recruiters just need help.

Now the other side of things...I've definitely had recruiters screw up and lose very good candidates, but it was always for stupid shit like they forgot to send the offer letter for a week or they accidentally put them in the "no" pile.

Heh, this one time we got a recruiter ping our team out of the blue saying they had a candidate. No one knew what the hell the position was for. Turns out the recruiters had forgot about a bunch of openings we had closed like a year before, they just never took down the postings. We asked him how he found the job, and the candidate said he manual went through the thousands of open positions until he found one that fit him. He hired him after the first round and he turned out to be awesome.

I know people in charge of staffing various departments at various military bases, and they have hundreds of open positions they can't fill because the people who took the buyout are still technically in those positions.

So they're double fucked. These are critical positions like medical and mechanical.

I go turbo on emails. Oh, you want to send me a vague one line question and cc three people? Well, prepare for the full CYA Experience, complete with charts, graphs, and paragraph after paragraph of pre-written documentation explaining why my A is C'd.

I hope this email finds you even half as well prepared for this conversation as I am, your move.

Sincerely, FAFO

has anyone ever collected all of these?

Absolutely false. Everyone I know with ecc ram would sell their shoes for more if they could.