Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’

• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Blacklists are heavily overrated and exaggerated, I’d say there’s no chance you’re on a blacklist. Hell, if you interview with them 3 years later, it’s entirely possible they have no clue who you are and end up hiring you - I’ve had literally that exact scenario happen.

  The only way you’d end up on a blacklist is if you accidentally step on the owners dog or something like that.

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  • eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Being on the other side of the interviewing table for the last 20ish years and being told that we’re not going to hire people that everyone unanimously loved and we unquestionably needed more times that I want to remember makes me think that blacklists are common.

    In all of the cases I’ve experienced in the last decade or so: people who had faang and old silicon on their resumes but couldn’t do basic things like creating an ansible playbook from scratch were either an automatic addition to that list or at least the butt of a joke that pervades the company’s cool aide drinker culture for years afterwards; especially so in recruiting.

    Yes they’ll eventually forget and I think it’s proportional to how egregious or how close to home your perceived misrepresentation is to them.

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think I’ve probably only ever been blacklisted once in my entire career, and it’s because I looked up the reviews of a company and they had some very concerning stuff so I just ghosted them completely and never answered their calls.

      In my defense, they took a while to reply to my application lol

      Agreed though, eventually they will forget, it just needs enough time, and maybe you’d not even want to work there.

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