I took an interview like this before. I checked the vast majority of the boxes of technologies used, and experience in a specific type of processing models prior to deployment. Thought it was bagged and tagged mine. 4 rounds of interviews, two technical rounds and a system design.
Asked me some hyper-specific question about X and wanted a hyper-specific implementation of Z technology to solve the problem. The way I solved it would have worked, but it wasnāt the X they were looking for.
Turns out the guy interviewing me at the second tech interview round was the manager of the guy he wanted in the roleāand the guy working for him already was the founder of the startup that commercialized X, and they just needed to check a box for corporate saying theyād done their diligence looking for a relevant senior engineer.
That fucking company put me through the wringer for that bullshit. 4 rounds of interviews.
Never again.
Norin@lemmy.world āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
We are deeply honored to have received your application (which we did not bother to read).
Weāre sorry we didnāt hire you, but also never contact us again.
Signed,
Someone in HR who has nothing to do with this process.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
At my old company I offered to help with the hiring. I said we should make job postings and just see if a great candidate applies.
My CEO told me āoh, we already have some postings. Let me give you the credentialsā.
I log in to (BreezyHR). Thereās over 2,000 applicants in the last 6 months. Tailored resumes, cover letters, everything. All the effort people put in to applying. Never even read. Nobody in the company even logged in to the platform where they would be read. Reading the cover letters from people saying it would be such a great fit was kind of sad.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
Iāve stopped tailoring resumes and doing cover letters. As someone who has been on the hiring end, they make maybe a small difference but the amount of time spent isnāt worth the potential upside.
Keep in mind that the people doing the hiring donāt want to be reading resumes either. Thatās why networking is still the best way to land a new job.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social āØ11ā© āØhoursā© ago
Oh, and also, all the information in your CV that you also painstakingly rewrote into our forms, is going to be spread around to other companies who will use it to send you spam and phishing messages.
Good luck with your future endeavours of staying sane with others trying to get money out of you, that you donāt have.