alt Hacker NewsCan I change the topic to the current hiring process?
Decline mails feel like an even bigger fuck you. Sometimes you don't get a proper reason and it leaves you confused.
There's this one company I applied to, I already knew someone there (not close or anything) and from his tone it seemed like I could help them out a lot. They simply needed more manpower, and I already worked with that stack.
I got declined via mail within an hour. How am I supposed to interpret this as "hmm, they checked my resume, had a long thought and decided it wasn't worth it to invite me for a quick 1:1"? It just screams "we either automate everything or don't even bother looking at our options".
They also finished with a "please subscribe to our newsletter".
How am I supposed to take these applications seriously if they basically tell me to fuck off?
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The flipside of hiring nowadays is that any job will get thousands of spam entries from third-world countries from people who can't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag even with LLM assistance.
So yes in your case it's likely the application got automatically filtered out for a myriad of reasons it is not in their best interests to disclose, lest the monkeys adapt their spam to match.
What we need is a serious hiring marketplace where both sides put down a huge deposit they lose in case of misbehavior; whether it's lying on resumes or unfair rejections.
Getting a decline email looks like high class service compared to all the ghosting that goes on.
I doubt that anyone saw your resume, let alone glanced at it. It's more likely that your resume didn't make it past their applicant filter for some reason.
There is an ATS (applicant tracking system) that companies use, it rhymes with 'trash be', and I always get auto-reject emails within a day when applying to positions managed through their system. A while back I submitted a request for them to send me a copy of the private information they had on me. What they sent back was far, far off from anything on my resume, so I had them delete it.
Based on that, I have zero confidence that any application on that system is accurately represented. I expect other ATS' are similar.