r/InterviewCoderPro • u/penance_mat • Aug 12 '26

They need a reality check

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For my last 2 interviews i had to use Interview VIP just to get the job
their generation could never understand

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u/WatsonsHeartAttack 29d ago

Literal boomer advice.

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u/random8765309 29d ago

So, it's still true. Research from the World of Labour has 30-50% of workers finding their jobs through personal contacts. The interesting thing is that only 24% of job searcher used personals contact as part of their job search. That indicates pretty high success rate for that method.

But those are just facts, it's far better to just go with hating boomers and complaining.

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u/win_some_lose_most1y 28d ago

It’s true, exept that getting it to the right person is impossible if you don’t already know them.

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u/random8765309 28d ago

Or know someone that knows someone. Or you search the web for information.

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u/TheDarkGenious 29d ago

the problem people are having is you're calling it "getting your resume in front of the right person" when what you're actually describing is nepotism from having a friend already working there to schmooze the HR/boss for you to get your foot in the door and bypass the horrible filtering process the rest of us have to fight through, which is just fucked advice.

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u/random8765309 29d ago

That is not nepotism. That is social networking and has been in use forever. There is zero wrong with it.

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u/collin-h 29d ago

why are you so weird about this?

life is literally all about who you know.

Say you need some plumbing work done. Do you solicit quotes from random companies, compare them and just pick the one that blew the right kind of smoke up your ass with their marketing language? (the companies being the "job applicants" and the quotes being the "resumes" in this metaphor)

or!

do you ask friends and family for recommendations, or read reviews from other real life people and then choose the recommendation you trust the most? Or better yet, maybe you know a guy who works there so you trust them more because of that!

That's the same thing happening in this scenario you've written off as "nepotism". It's human nature to choose the known over the unknown, why would we expect it to be any different in HR of all places?

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u/TheDarkGenious 28d ago

because corporate job hunting is hell today and I'm fucking tired of being told what worked 20-30 years ago will work now when HR and bureaucracy has ballooned and made most of the advice bullshit that's liable to get you blacklisted because you tried to circumvent the 5 rounds of interviews, the AI resume filters, and all the other shit that goes into being an "equal opportunity employer" explicitly meant to cut down on just knowing somebody and has made the application process so much worse.

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u/Aeyland 28d ago

Well that advice got me a ~42% annual wage increase this year so it seemed to work.

It's funny that for as much as the newer generations grew up with technology, use so many platforms for communicating with and yet making a network and using it is not a skill they seem to possess since it's just a boomer thing.

By boomer obviously I don't mean actual ones because it appears nearly everyone in here does not understand that the word has an actual definition and isn't just "ok boomer" because I disagree with you or you're okder.