So i had a call/kinda interview with a founder of a startup, but i missed the the call, because of current job and there was n other things going, I didn’t hear back from him, we connected over twi...

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So i had a call/kinda interview with a founder of a startup, but i missed the the call, because of current job and there was n other things going, I didn’t hear back from him, we connected over twitter. Now I don’t know if he has joined the call or not or what should i say to schedule another call?

Missed an interview, what should i do?

Category Manager

Missed an interview, what should i do?- Grapevine

Hey everyone! 
Sorry for the title. 

I had applied for a company, based out of Hyderabad. A startup, hiring for its founding full-stack engineer. 
The founder had sent their calendly link to schedule the meeting. 
I scheduled once, joined and waited long enough to receive an email saying that he got caught up in another meeting. The email explicitly said how sorry they were. 
Scheduled again, cancelled 5 mins prior because of a conflicting meeting. 
They apologized again, sent the calendly link, I rescheduled. I had an personal emergency because of which I couldn't attend so I sent an email, 5 MINS BEFORE THE MEETING STARTED, asking to reschedule. 
They shared the link, I rescheduled and they completely ghosted me. 

They think they belong to the top of the world or something, because of a fricking startup? Although it's YC funded but that doesn't give them horns! 
So I'm going to name and shame the company. 

LANDEED
Founder - CJ Lin

Egotistical Founder - Such a prick!

Software Engineer

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

Last week, I had an interview scheduled with Microsoft, but I was on vacation at the time. I requested them to reschedule, and they initially agreed. However, they haven’t responded to my follow-up emails since then. What are your thoughts? Do you think there’s still a chance?

Microsoft reschedule interview

Founding Engineer

I give interview round for confluent way back in March 2023 after that the position was put on hold now. I’m trying to get in touch with the Recruiter and they are not replying to my mail or phone what to do?

Confluent

The company haven’t paid us 3-6months of salary saying that there’s a delay in raising VC funds. They also didn’t pay TDS and gave us Form 16 for ITR. 

I reached out to our client company where I worked briefly and they were happy to offer me a job there. I’m dangerously out of money in savings and it’s still uncertain in my current company about any funds. So I have given a early date to him because I really need their salary and joining bonus to survive actually. I thought I can immediately relieve from my current company as I don’t have finished projects and haven’t involve in new. But they are not responding to my calls and mail requesting for immediate resignation. 


What should I do now ?

My company is delaying acceptance to my resignation

Acceptance of resignation has no value, the day you resigned is considered for notice period start date.

Product Manager

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There I said it. It sucks.

The start is a joke - cause here's the plan - If you spend too much time on intros, and you wasting the so called "interview" time. And then you think I should save it for later, lets focus on the interview.

so we move to the stinky middle - the interview part - a web of questions with the obvious non relevant ones in there - and for a fact you will still give a green light to folks by a measure of retention of knowledge, not by knowledge application - cause you give hints to solve the problem sparingly. Here's the fact about your measure of potential - Take away Google and ChatGPT from these managers, and more than half your team would crumble. Wouldn't they use it on everyday job? If yes, then why are you depriving them of it in the interview. 
You will ego battle them - Not answering most of their questions - cause you are not interviewing - you are an interviewer - and they are the interviewee.. or you will conveniently park the questions for later, until a hiring decision is formally made - so you save your time - I mean cmon! thats your game plan. 

And the closing: it’s usually a weak handshake or a sign off and a 'We’ll be in touch' OR 'HR will get back to you'
CLASSIC. And yet.. you expect the job seekers to buy into their 'mission and vision' and become dedicated team member to "your" team. 
Seriously? 

CONVERSATION has a CON in it and you are doing it.
+ you cant hold it, even if your life depended on it.

The only reason the job seeker turned up, and thanked you for your time after the interview - is cause they need a job and were polite. NOTHING ELSE.
In a rare case - you really did a good job, and hence the "thank you"

Podcast here - https://lnkd.in/gMe6v9hV

Most hiring managers can't handle the start, close or even manage the middle of an interview - even if their life depended on it.

Human Resource

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Which company did you have the worst interview experience with?

Interview experiences

Founder

Around a month ago, HR called to ask if I was interested in the APM role. After following up multiple times for the interview, they said the hiring manager didn't like your profile. After 2-3 weeks, different HR reached out, saying they want to conduct round - 1 for the same team. The interview happened, and I reached out to HR after 3-4 days for the next steps, but she kept cutting my calls and completely ghosted me. I reached out to another HR, and she said the feedback on the portal was that "experience is not enough."

I was pretty disappointed as while conducting interviews, HRs reached out to me so many times, but they couldn't even send an automated email for feedback. 

But it didn't end there. The HR who ghosted me called again after a couple of weeks to schedule round 1 with another team. The interview went well, and the interviewer asked me about my availability for round 2 and when I could join them, etc., saying we would try to conduct the next round soon. When I reached out for feedback, HR kept saying I'll call you later. I'm busy right now, and then they ghosted me. After following up multiple times, she said the feedback wasn't positive. 

I hoped for round 2 here since the interviewer seemed convinced and contented with my profile. Now, just because I reached out 10s of times, they told me that I have been rejected! 

How much time does it take to send an automated email? :/

Cars24 APM Interview - Worst experience

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I recently started interviewing after a period of about 5 years and I am very surprised about the change in the way interviews are conducted these days. I have now interviewed for few companies like Sitetracker, Avance Clinical, Iron Mountain and expedite commerce and each organisation had their first round as a fit check round which i’m unable to clear. Can you guys share some tips around it.

Need help regarding Fit check round of interview

Salesforce Developer

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I'm freaking out rn. I had an interview with at 2 today and no interviewer had  joined the call for 30+mins. Followed up with the recruiter and scheduler over email and WhatsApp messages him too.

Not sure what else I can do? I'm sleep deprived as I work the night shift and I hate where I'm working. This is the worst. I really thought I had a chance even though it was so off my reach;-;

Interviewer no show

Account Manager

Is it ok to call back to the company about my interview results ? It’s been 15 days they asked for all the certificates and haven’t received my joining order yet

Interview calls

Design Engineer

I have attended an Interview round from Accenture for application developer role (react) 

I have received a mail from some ID from Accenture domain

Like "*****.support@accenture.com"
Consider ***** as some keyword like recruitment

They asked me to send Pancard and 3 months Payslips and to mention CID Number

Does it mean I cleared the interview? And will there be HR round after this? 

Also the email was not person specific as you see above.

Do I reply to the very same EMAIL or shall I contact someone who contacted me earlier for interview?

Accenture hiring process

Software Developer

This began in June 2023 when I received an opportunity to interview with Eventbrite. I received the online assessment link and submitted it. However, after that, I was ghosted by HR. In February 2024, I applied again, and HR called me to discuss the opportunity. HR asked me to call him the next day if I was interested further in the process. When I called him the next day, he didn't pick up, and after 2 minutes, I received a rejection email. HR could have picked up and just told me the reason for rejection.

Hiring at Eventbrite is broken

Backend Engineer

Folks who are giving interviews these days, which companies are you interviewing for ?

Also what is the method of getting the interview ? Did recruiter reach out to you on LinkedIn, or you applied on a company portal and got the call or did you ask for a referral ?

Which companies are hiring

A few 100% remote jobs 
 Source - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarun-khandagare 
  
 1. Quest Software - https://lnkd.in/gqaB5RTN 
 2. Upstart - https://lnkd.in/g3sXD8DZ 
 3. Celigo - https://lnkd.in/gKhSMxNY (US & India) 
 4. Cengage Group - https://lnkd.in/gGkT6jRZ 
 5. Docker, Inc - https://lnkd.in/gfX5-pQG 
 6. hims & hers - https://lnkd.in/gr_SdVdE 
 7. UserGems 💎 Interviews - https://lnkd.in/gXi3mNf6 
 8. Abnormal Security - https://lnkd.in/gn5M4VDF 
 9. Cash App - https://lnkd.in/gdp8yUm8 
 10. LogicGate - https://lnkd.in/gjgX27Bc 
 11. Faire - https://lnkd.in/gYRNr9VM 
 12. Renaissance Learning - https://lnkd.in/gesiM_Dw 
 13. Rec Room - https://lnkd.in/gErDuTNa 
 14. VGS (Very Good Security) - https://lnkd.in/g7Ajb77F 
 15. VAST Data - https://lnkd.in/gMUFt4y9 
 16. Sorcero - https://lnkd.in/gpmDTnH7 
 17. McGraw Hill - https://lnkd.in/g59pzFf4 
 18. Patreon - https://lnkd.in/gzQptMcQ (NY/San Francisco) 
 19. Beekeeper - https://lnkd.in/gxd7rs7Q (Senior PMM) 
 20. Upwork - https://lnkd.in/gt4HYmd6 
 21. DocuSign - https://lnkd.in/ggfUncZf 
 22. DealHub.io - https://lnkd.in/gyNED4yp 
 23. Census - https://lnkd.in/gAq7PGzc 
 24. Intrado - https://lnkd.in/gH3wuNWZ 
 25. Cloudflare - https://lnkd.in/g9JPXp2F 
 26. Funded.club - https://lnkd.in/gpH4FazA 
 27. Workiva - https://lnkd.in/g-FUYYdR 
 28. MissionWired - https://lnkd.in/gMA6AVdG 
 29. Workera - https://lnkd.in/g2YzZu-H 
 30. Jenius Bank - https://lnkd.in/gxGqHGkH

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Quick background: A seniorish middle management guy here

Got the last 2 jobs via my network, didn't apply for it. 

Some lessons learnt:
1. Get into that high iq, mafia type companies, where the bar is really high 
2. If you end up doing good then you'll get calls from your circles to work on something exciting
3. Lastly, work on your personal branding, write that blog down, tell how you did it, it should attract niche audience in your circle

Good luck 🤞🏻

I like this hot take

Yep, my last two jobs were 
 - inbound from a hiring manager who read some medium posts 
 - direct referral from ex colleague at a company from 4 years back

Is it possible to get call from google
And they ask you for interview date and send you link for applying and then they stop replying to your linkedin and mails? Even if recruiter had told you that you can contact them in non working hours as well.

Got call for scheduling interview from google but got ghosted after

I cleared all the interview rounds for a role at GE Healthcare but the HR is ghosting me since 2 weeks after we agreed upon the offer verbally. Every day I keep following up for updates but the response I get is that approval has to be provided by global team. Has anyone faced such issues at other companies or is this something that is common.

HR ghosting me

So I interviewed for a local startup kind of and they gave me task which I completed in around like 2 weeks and now they are starting my stipend but I feel like after accepting the offer that company wouldn't be beneficial for me since it is local startup not from metro city and the technologies they are using are also kind of old is what I belive, so what should I do and since I have been jobless for long time because I was unsure of what to do next so I don't want to let go of this opportunity please help!!!

Dilemma of joining

A company called loop health started allowing remote work and hiring in early 2022 soon after receiving $25 million dollars investment. 
Founders are a great pair in the initial but as soon after investment of series A , difference broke out and one of the co-founders left the company in the name of sabbatical from backdoor out. He was visionary and had great product sense which the CEO got jealous of and stopped him at all the cost of investors recognising him. Anyway now the real unhealthy thing is not this story but due to this product the scope got messed up and customers started complaining and renewals badly hit to 60-80%. The competitor got them easily , one of the sales people said on call at a loop that loop company customers are easy to catch for competitors.
Now the real story is, the CEO wanted only the Pune office to survive and all remote employees to leave so he did a little magic ✨. Instead of laying off people, strategically not compensating anyone started layoff from the beginning of the 2023 this year by asking each outsider to resign and leave. The strategy was simple, 
Find weakness and make them accept simple mistakes as well and ask them to resign. At the same time, hire contractors at Pune to join and work. If any employee is strong or doesn't want to leave then make them contract employees and expect work in the same way.
This is not at all acceptable and the CEO is not alone on this. CEO, CTO , CPO involved plan. 
The problem with this approach is unfair practices, if someone makes a mistake they won't give any PIP plan. They just fire them in easy  ways to resign. CEO proudly says he wants great tennis 🎾 team but infact ceo is just a ball boy.

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