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TJT

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A recruiter reached out to me about a position at this company. I did the first interview out of curiosity.


The recruiter had this laundry list of things to do in advance. Read this white paper, watch this video, have all this stuff prepared to ask him. I watched the video and read about the product on the site. An "AI sleep system for biohackers" yeah okay. I did not read the paper and did not take it very seriously.

Get on the call and say hi the dude immediately starts grilling me with these really strange questions. Just radiated Bay Area Startup vibes. Then had me grill him about the company because he honestly thought I would have read a 10 page white paper on their bed system before a 30 minute call just to see what was up with the position.

But their product really? A $4000 fucking bed that you have to pay a Netflix type subscription on? Puke. That product seems like a crock of shit for a startup if I ever saw one.
 
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TJT said:
A recruiter reached out to me about a position at this company. I did the first interview out of curiosity.


The recruiter had this laundry list of things to do in advance. Read this white paper, watch this video, have all this stuff prepared to ask him. I watched the video and read about the product on the site. An "AI sleep system for biohackers" yeah okay. I did not read the paper and did not take it very seriously.

Get on the call and say hi the dude immediately starts grilling me with these really strange questions. Just radiated Bay Area Startup vibes. Then had me grill him about the company because he honestly thought I would have read a 10 page white paper on their bed system before a 30 minute call just to see what was up with the position.

But their product really? A $4000 fucking bed that you have to pay a Netflix type subscription on? Puke. That product seems like a crock of shit for a startup if I ever saw one.
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They’re throwing a ton of ad money around.
 
Haus

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So , interesting quasi-update on my possible job changing offers.

The internal role at my current company which would move me into a "Mentor and develop young engineering talent" role that I'm interviewing for... I check in with the guy I would be reporting to to see if there are any next steps we need to get moving and he says they're working on the next round of people I need to talk to. And he lets me know he also needs to input all the AI analytics of the previous interviews into an AI which is guiding the hiring committee...

I'm so screwed.... If that AI is decent it's going to go over me and spit this back out....
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Noodleface

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I've been complaining that I need more engineers for a couple years now. The fact I've launched some products has always come down to last minute crunch and literally barely getting it out in time. Well... Friday was our code freeze for our biggest launch in years... And we missed it

Just completely burnt out, overworked, way overstressed and there was no way it was happening. I dunno what they're gonna do but come Monday it ain't gonna be good
 
Kithani

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Noodleface said:
I've been complaining that I need more engineers for a couple years now. The fact I've launched some products has always come down to last minute crunch and literally barely getting it out in time. Well... Friday was our code freeze for our biggest launch in years... And we missed it

Just completely burnt out, overworked, way overstressed and there was no way it was happening. I dunno what they're gonna do but come Monday it ain't gonna be good
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Just show up and answer every question like this IMO
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