Noodleface
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Unfortunately for us interviewing we'll never know. At least at big companies like mine. All I know is the quality I'm seeing is super low.
IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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Khane
Got something right about marriage
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No, you do know. What I was mildly lampooning is 100% how it has worked for... 10+ years.
And now it's being exacerbated by AI and outsourced recruiters and HR reps who are invested in only showing outsourced "talent" and being encouraged to do so.
And now it's being exacerbated by AI and outsourced recruiters and HR reps who are invested in only showing outsourced "talent" and being encouraged to do so.
Noodleface
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Sorry I mean yes we "know", but HR will never admit that.
The closest I got was a few years ago some bozo from HR said we had to hire 50% DEI hires. I wish that was a joke
moonarchia
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Well, fuck. Just got laid off. Not a total shock. Looks like 6 people in my department total got hit this time around. 4 months severance. And supposedly will still get total bonus I would have gotten this year. Time to sell get my place listed and decide what's next.
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moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
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Dad is coming by so we can sit and talk. Just called RE agent who helped me buy, so will get this place listed ASAP. Don't know if I even want to stay in CO, so lots of stuff to look at this week. I think being laid off qualifies as a 'hardship' reason to use my 401k if it comes to that.
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TJT
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The last guy I was position involved in hiring was had those 3 CS graduates who couldn't write SQL or Python to save their lives. Despite the role being for junior data scientist where all of your coding will be those two languages in this company. I really like the hiring manager but she rejected all of those candidates and instead offshored the role to India. Which rustled me.
The hiring manager is American-Indian and she has never lived in India so I didn't think it was the usual grift. Her team previously had another American on it who quit and the remaining one was VERY inexperienced but happened to be the right kind of person to be hungry and willing to learn and apply anything so he's been great. Her reasoning is that she really didn't want to take the chance and needs someone with baseline capabilities as she has major projects and tight deadlines for them coming into 2026.
Understandable I guess but this company has always been pretty willing to take on someone who may not be perfectly suited for the role but is interested, energetic, and willing to learn. That kind of company culture has always been a major point in keeping me here.
Noodleface
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I hired an actual American to my team this week and it feels like a unicorn in this climate
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Siliconemelons
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Pajeets are super super fast to claim “you were told of X” and 99% of the time its bull and they did not - or they try bust out receipts and they are nonsensical and usually not applicable or even to the correct people. its also why many of their “this needs to be done- tell applicable resources” is their “we told you, and you didn't then decimate it properly” no mind they sent it to a random secretary.
Most people do not dare call them out esp publicly - good for you.
Now, when you get employee Indians vs contract Indians - whew! That can be entertaining. The crowd of overlapping nonononononono is lulz
