Once I received a call from a recruiter who was asking for "UI at backend" skill. I tried to correct her but she was very adamant and instead said that I may have not heard of the skill because I had only few years of experience in industry 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Software Engineer

Software Test - QA

I've never got good profiles from recruiters. Had to do it myself.

Brand Marketing Manager

Honestly speaking.   While speaking to tech folks.  I usually do my thorough research with my hiring manager before coming up with any questions....and always try to be well versed and upto date  with my knowledge . 
 One of the worst things u can do is ask a ridiculous question to an engineer and make a fool of urself 🫣🫣🫣

Consultant

Analyst

The worst part about applying for a job is the process of impressing the dumb recruiter so that she sets up your interview. It is funny when a recruiter who has zero technical skills and has not wr...

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The worst part about applying for a job is the process of impressing the dumb recruiter so that she sets up your interview. It is funny when a recruiter who has zero technical skills and has not written a single line of code in her life cross questions me about my engineering projects in past organisations.

How can companies change the hiring process so one does not have to deal with these annoying recruiters?

or are dumb recruiters just a necessary evil?

Are recruiters (headhunters) just glorified gatekeepers?

Are recruiters (headhunters) just glorified gatekeepers?- Grapevine

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How common is it for recruiters to ghost you after multiple rounds of interviews and assessments (over months) by blocking your email so you can't even send follow up emails?

The way I see it - they don't lose much since they have thousands to choose from an applicant pool, but it certainly undermines the effort made my candidates to a huge degree. 

Or is that common courtesy, acknowledgement and in general being decent human seem rathee utopian concepts in this day and age?

Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Recruiters ghosting/blocking you - the new norm

Program Manager

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So recently I interviewed in many companies including google, Microsoft, Amazon I have seen common pattern that HR not being transparent with candidates. They keep hanging candidates in between and not reply to text, email, messages, calls. Even if candidate is rejected why can’t they email or call to give feedback. Is this job really hard ?
“If I will get a chance to snap out one profession from earth I will snap out all hrs, recruiters out there.”

Ps:- Google ppl was very transparent throughout process one of best experiences for me .

What is wrong with HRs/Recruiters

Now it has become clearly evident that there are telegram groups for off campus placements. Almost all students cheat when it comes to OAs. Also asking easy level problems in interview many times help the cheaters get selected on any interview.

The real question is what are recruiters doing? Do they not care much about these? Now in my college the culture has become such like everyone knows if they don't cheat they won't be selected in OA. It is disheartening to see that this thing is not always checked during interview and many underserving people seep in the company because of poor interview process( they ask leetcode hard/codeforces 1600 level questions in OA and will ask to reverse a linked list in interview). Is this system ever going to change?

Current scenario on OA

Need answer to just one thing. 

Do you guys intentionally ghost candidates or do you guys intentionally ghost candidates? 🙂

Dear HRs - Answer Me.

Profession dominated by women - typical passive agressive behaviour. Avoidance

Founder

I got call from hr that I have passed coding round and they need to schedule interview round

15th may was the date decided, I started studying for interview and took 1-2 leaves from my office of that now I didn't get any mail,

I asked again for interview confirmation, he said he has requested for interview to 16 may timeslot, I will get mail by EOD

Now I haven't got any mail for timing, why they can't simply clarify things and keep us waiting

now neither I am focusing on studying nor I am focusing on my current company work 😕

Why hr doesn't clarify things properly

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Why is that? Do they choose sending rejections via email as an easy way out - cause of the volume? Is hiding behind emails WAYYYYY easier? 
Is the basic mindset that .. anyways X is/ are rejected, why waste time there?
Isn't that mindset toxic and weird at the same time.

I mean - if you can pick up the phone to string a potential hire along, push them through the process, you can sure as hell pick up the phone to be honest. 
Isn't that a valid expectation from the other party? 

Your convenience is a proxy for avoiding hard conversation. 
Cowardice at its best. Ignorant at its core. 

No wonder 9/10 Recruiters don't get Recruitment - no matter what you say. 
Cause you (recruiters) default to transactions.
And if you (recruiters/ anyone in the org) are wondering - but no one complained about it? 
Sad truth is - They (candidates/ job seekers) screamed their lungs out, but you never listened. And now most of them have accepted this as a norm.

This is what is killing Recruitment.
Candidates deserve better. But they stopped asking.
You can do better. But you stopped trying.

IMHO The best you can do is - give them a closure. Not an automated email. 
Oh! before I forget .. To all those Hiring Managers who say - HR/TA will get back to you. You ain't any better. Period. 

Effort without honesty is just a facade - Recruitment needs both to regain its integrity.

Ever wonder why recruiters have no problem calling you to say "Congratulations, you're shortlisted" and then talk about next steps but would rarely call back when you are rejected. They would rather send an email.

Human Resource

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So i approached a PM at klub, a revenue based financing firm & asked him about open positions. He forwarded my cv to the hr.

Couple of days later, the hr called me & we had an initial discussion. Then he scheduled an intro round with a PM.

I had the PM round which was completely behavioral. It seemed like he was not much interested in the interview & took it just for the sake of it. Questions like tell me about yourself, why klub, why PM were asked.

2 weeks later i called the hr(yes, there were no responses from them) & asked him whats the status to which he replied, we have proceeded with another candidate.

*Here comes the interesting part*

I asked him to provide me a reason because i didnt get any feedback from the PM. This is the conversation which happened
He: we are looking for pm with experience in api integrations only
Me: okay so why was that not mentioned in the JD
He: the requirement was changed later & also you dont have the experience required(1-3 yrs)
Me: so why did you contact me in the 1st place if you thought i didnt have enough experience? Also, there are 2 guys who are working at klub who are from consulting background & have no experience whatsoever but they're apm
He: but you need to understand that they are from tier 1 college, bits pilani & iit madras
Me: how does that make a difference in product experience? I have worked on & built real products even if its for 10 months, all they have are hypothetical case studies, its not like they have been entrepreneur at past
He: no we have specific requirements & the hiring manager didn't see yours as a fit

Hr will hire people with no experience but from a premium college than people with experience but from a not so known college

The mindset of some recruiters nowadays

Product Manager

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P.S. Not GenZ, but relate to vibe as a concept

I've interviewed with multiple companies, and I'm starting to notice a pattern. 

Interviewers who:
- Have their cameras off
- Show up in old t-shirts, looking like they haven't washed their face or combed their hair
- Roll their eyes when the answer isn't what they wanted to hear
- Fidget around when you are speaking
- Look anywhere but at the camera
- Give in to itches all over the body 👀 
among many others 

If we as interviewees are expected to be presentable and excited, the least interviewers could do is put in a little effort to appear decent and engaged.

Is Interviewer vibe a thing?

I was talking to one of the Navi recruiters and she became uninterested once I told her I was recently impacted by the layoff and can join within a few weeks.
I mean it's funny how they don't want to interview immediate joiners who are impacted by the restructuring.
I'm surprised as other company recruiter eyes lit up knowing I can join immediately but navi finds it disgusting.

Funny incident with navi

Had a similar experience with udaan in 2022. Later the recruiter itself got laid off 💀

Business Analyst

Zomato laid off most of the talent Acquisition people

Everything is a rat race for Indians

Software Developer

PIP on the raise at Swiggy, saw couple of post with good fellas leaving. can someone confirm or deny this fact that PIP is used a weapon to downsize the teams in order to show profit for upcoming IPO next year?

swiggy continues to silently layoff

Lawyer

What's up with the HR-Tech folks? 
Anything cooking in this industry

Recruitment is a 200 yr+ old industry
- Why are only a few B2B startups in this space? (Zoho, GreytHR.. 
- Can this industry get rid of Agencies?
- What USP can help in this space?

Anyone who can help get insights?

Is Recruitment-Tech dead?

Am I the only one who finds it disgusting ?? And I really wonder how they are okay with such a small sample size to even start.

Hiring biases

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I have been ghosted more by recruiters than being ghosted by my dates. Why can’t recruiters be respectful to us and stop ghosting us? Software engineers are human beings and have feelings too.

Why do recruiters ghost?

I got myself referred to a position of Senior Data Engineer in Publicis Sapient, later got a test link to complete coding assessment before being considered for interviews. The test was about UI development using javascript and node.js. This is nothing to do with data engineering neither to with the job description. Indian IT HR’s are the rarest species of the planet.

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