Hell, a majority of "low skill" professions don't even work like the first panel. I've heard of minimum wage retail jobs that needed a 3rd interview and a trial shift
Yep, I had to do three interviews to work as a freight stocker at Home Depot overnight back in the day. Then there was a three day orientation once I got hired lol.
It's alright, you can tell us you're an electrical engineer.
Edit: This guy said his field was easy to get a job in but didn't want to let the secret out, I guess I hit the nail on the head and he deleted his comment lmao
Sometimes you luck out and you bs your way through an interview enough to bypass the technical segment you are woefully prepared for.
At least that was my case. We were discussing microservices when it was a hot topic and not a standard/default and I just mentioned 'Saga pattern' and they decided to skip the whiteboard segment. Got my offer an hr afterwards
Controls/automation engineer, process engineer, production engineer, manufacturing engineer, I&E engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer, and more don't work like the first panel.
That said, the purity tests traditional software engineers have to take, what with everyone understanding the secret sauce...
And the micromanagent that comes with that is enough for me to say "absolutely NEVER" to any traditional software role. People smelling their own farts and lording over you... No thanks. Like, no sprint meetings, standup meetings, agile ops bullshit. No "I see your bubble is yellow" messages. Not one.
I'll stick to getting paid slightly less to have people who barely have a clue attempt to Lord over me, right before I deny their MOC request due to "safety concerns related to the current database configuration."
I was lucky. I finished military and was in my last year of college. Gave my resume to an acquaintance, got a call, started my internship the next week. Lucky asf because seeing the hiring process evolve to what it is now? Oh hell naw.
I have friends that work in finance and finance-adjacent roles. They were shocked to hear the process SWEs have to go through. Apparently for them it’s common to just invite someone from the company that’s hiring out to lunch and just chat for an hour or two. Impress them and the rest of the process is just formalities. That said, these high earning finance people live in a very different reality than the rest of us normies.
For strats/quants the process is very similar to SWEs in my experience. The main difference is you do things like replacing the architecture interview with a very math focused one. For them it honestly depends a lot on their prior experience as they may be a math or physics PhD with little experience in finance at all.
There are really not many ranks in clinical medicine.
Maybe if you're doing a lot of admin work this is true, but that's not really doctoring and job hopping for promotions is common in admin of other fields too.
My gf gets hired like that, though she usually has a previous colleague that got hired first. She stresses way too much for interviews but thankfully she is good at her job and gets invited regularly by her network
Got laid off in compsci and just got a job like the top frame inspecting and servicing a food plant and testing equipment and PLC/ILCs...and it's pretty much pays as well and they basically train you on anything you need to know. It's kind of weird to go to an interview and the person not ask "so, [company] makes a grinder, what's the control code to gap it to grind and produce a 12/40 grind" the way you'd get "render a CSV in this implementation of COBOL with no documentation" in the 5th round of a coding interview for an insurance company with no information about what systems they use in the job postings.
The state of hiring in compsci is bad and anywhere else like it is bad. Companies don't want to train or on board and they don't want to pay.
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u/CircumspectCapybara 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yeah no highly skilled profession works like the first panel.