alt Hacker NewsWe really need a regulation on job openings being real. Each interview costs the candidate roughly one PTO day.
Mandating something like a minimum of 40:1 interviews to extended offers should correct for at least the worst offenses.
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That will never happen. We've got employers making employees sign ridiculous Non-compete, non-disclosure, non-disparagement, agreements. Do you really think this will ever happen? We've collectively decided that corporations are people and people have freedom of speech. We've spent years doing the H1B dance. (I'm not anti-immigration. I'd love to simply give them citizenship. I've met some amazing people on H1Bs. The system is exploitive to US workers AND the H1B recipients). Face it, as someone who is actually doing the work of IT, you lost a long time ago.
Then I'm not posting job openings at all, and I'm working my personal network extra hard to get a pipeline of actual candidates setup.
And it's not just the ATS doing this -- oooodles of goobers who are nowhere near qualified are using AI and slamming the hiring pipelines. I'm already leaning on the personal networks because of that, anyway, but Parent Poster's idea just means I push for that explicitly instead of informally.
See also: layoffs.fyi -- the market is just SATURATED with quality talent