On the other hand, who wants to fucking work for Microsoft?

Yesterday I had my first job interview with an AI chatbot and it has me absolutely terrified

Interviews right now in software:

• Apply to job
• 1.5 months later receive email to take an AI-"proctored" code interview where you have to show your ID, share screen, cam, mic like some Orwellian njghtmare
• Maybe get a soft-interview with employees where they are just asking you about local weather while seemingly personable, but actually just trying to find out if you live where you say you live
• Possible technical interview with humans where it's "pair programming" but actually just a human-proctored coding puzzle irrelevant to the job description and the "interviewer" is looking at another monitor surfing reddit
• Contemplate if homelessness isn't that bad versus all this bullshit
• Maybe retail? Construction? Farming?
• Work at CostCo?

All to get a job to be a condom between Claude and source control as that other recent lemmy post shared.

Didn’t think this image could possibly get any more absurd while still being accurate and yet now you can just replace the lady with automatic emails. Capitalism truly breeds innovation

And with a typo in the last one: "databas"

"... recruiting databas."

Sounds like they did you a favor.

I lost a domain from GoDaddy in a similar way: a shotgun of emails at like 2AM.

That escalated quickly.

I worked for a company 20 years ago that happens to share a title with a major software package that is specific to a completely different industry.

I'll routinely get recruiters reaching out to me about entry level positions using the software package and they'll send two or three follow up emails without ever checking if their minimum effort keyword search result is actually an appropriate fit.

Hearing that they're dropping interest on the third email would be an improvement over what I get to deal with.

ETA - Didn't even notice the time stamps. I'd take a dozen of these over the LinkedIn drones I hear from

If they want you that much they can put an offer in

They have ED-209 doing HR.

Join our talent network. You have 20 seconds to comply.

My email is FirstnameLastname@gmail.com

I regularly get reachouts asking me to come be an anesthesiologist for the. I am not a doctor.

It's called high speed hiring, works similar to high-speed trading.

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