• thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I don’t believe you are in a bubble. My experience matches with your initial assertion. We just recently hired for 3 SRE roles.

      Hundreds of applicants in a 24 hour window.

      We had people using some kind of LLM tool during interviews, obviously so. Others were sharing the same resume with only slight modifications, and plenty of folks who couldn’t pass the screening call or a very simple tech interview.

      We also had wildly unprofessional candidates who were no-shows, or had profane/NSFW desktops or couldn’t even use a terminal - for an SRE role.

      So no, you’re not alone. The great candidates get hired, headhunted even.

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        1 year ago

        That’s my experience too. Just absolutely to brag, but I wasn’t actively applying in the last 10 years, I was always headhunted.
        I mean not personally as if everybody knows in the industry that Golem is the shit, but as in when I get bored after 2-3 years at my current job and I want a nicer salary bump, I start to answer some of the more interesting LinkedIn messages and usually in about a month I land something new.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve been wondering about this. Is it reasonable to ask those recruiters through the linkedin chat about salary before wasting time on the phone with anyone? I’ve been thinking about answering some of those messages lately like you mentioned you did.

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            1 year ago

            Absolutely fine to politely ask for a salary range, in my experience. I’ve never found they hide it, but the ranges can be broad.

        • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Name was different, resume exactly the same. It was probably a scam or the folks applying were scammed in someway. Someone on our team told us stories of scummy “we’ll get you a tech job” services in their country and this “copied resume” phenomenon was par for the course.