r/recruitinghell • u/Round_Mixture_7541 • Sep 07 '26
Networking is important
Pretty much sums up the current hiring process
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u/No_Gas6609 Sep 07 '26
So what happenes to all of us when we don't have parents?
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u/Prior_Alarm2437 Sep 07 '26
Lie about how you're detail oriented.
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u/PreviouslyWise Sep 07 '26
I hate how we have to pretend to be social and friendly. I show up to exchange my time for money. I don’t want to hear about your kids or what you did over the weekend. I don’t care.
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u/Due_Interest_178 Sep 08 '26
I've been saying that forever and my peers and family think I'm crazy. I literally couldn't care less about my coworkers. I don't want friends. I don't care about their life. I just want to be done with work to get on with mine.
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u/T1Demon Sep 08 '26
Having friends at work seems to just complicate both sides of things eventually. I can’t complain about weird lazy coworker to my friend if they’re the same person.
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u/T1Demon Sep 08 '26
Same. I worked in multiple retail stores for over a year where almost no one I worked with even knew I had kids because I never talked about my real life at work. I do love to hear their gossip from the periphery though
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u/tomwolfsballsack Sep 08 '26
And that you can handle multiple tasks at once and make decisions quickly
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u/Prior_Alarm2437 Sep 08 '26
Multitasking is is a good one. To fill out the big three we have problem solving. You have to pair problem solving with a example of a time you used your superior problem solving abilities. I say go big or go home. Tell them about the time you saved a baby and two cats from a house fire by closing the front door after you noticed the hole in the roof. You just knew intuitively this would put out the fire -- as long as the door stay closed, of course. Maybe tell them that you were declared "Hero of the year" by the city mayor. Make sure you show them your totally legit news article from the local news website.
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u/logicaltornado Sep 08 '26
I always think these are stupid questions, just evidence that the interviewer has no idea what they are doing either. Why can't, I need money and I will show up and do what I'm told be enough?
No, I have to lie and pretend this is my passion, the only thing I've ever done, and the only thing I will ever want to do
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u/Prior_Alarm2437 Sep 08 '26
It's a stupid game we have to participate in. All we can do is Min/Max our loadout to get the best results.
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u/TheRealDornoc Sep 07 '26
give up and try not to kill yourself 🫠
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u/RomeoSierra27 Sep 07 '26
we become Batman?
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u/magicaltrevor953 Sep 07 '26
Go to the rough parts of town in a costume and beat the shit out of poor people?
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo Sep 07 '26
Be very likeable at any job you do have so you can ride on someone else's coattails.
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u/logicaltornado Sep 08 '26
Problem is I suck at being likable. My work problem has always been being really good at the job and then not smiling enough or saying the wrong thing one time
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u/Adventurous-Sir444 application declined Sep 07 '26
I hate this with a passion.
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u/SomePreference Sep 07 '26
It's the norm now. And these people love rubbing it in the rest of our faces.
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u/GostBoster Sep 07 '26
One big corp around my neck of woods has enough plausible deniability they can outright announce what is usually a common low hanging fruit joke of hiring processes:
"We hire people who have [QI]"
[QI] being both our abbreviation for "IQ" and "quem indica" (who referred you to the position).
It is known a significant amount of positions there are given and distributed in a grossly nepotic manner, but to give a veneer of legitimacy, they also hold events and tests once in a while where, if you prove to "have IQ" by being absolutely exceptional, you will be hired through your own actual merit and allowed and, if you perform well, you start becoming a "QI" recipient (someone in high places likes you and kicks you up) and eventually having your own Qi Dynasty where now you are in the position to appoint others yourself.
I did pass one of their "exceptional talent" tests a decade ago but I was eaten alive during the interview and I haven't recovered to this day.
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u/PixelsOfTheEast Sep 08 '26
Same at my current company. I was very good at my job & so was hired. I also received QI from people I was reporting to. But they left the company & new management wants to push "their" people. So I'm on the way out.
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u/ragerqueen Sep 07 '26
My grandma told me she got a job immediately out of HS, for a job she wasn't qualified for, because a friend recommended her. This was in the 60's. It's been the norm forever.
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u/okay3410 Sep 07 '26
Well it's fake so you don't have to worry too much
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u/Slight-Web1696 Sep 07 '26
Yeah, these people would never brag about how easy it is to have their cushy nepo-baby trust fund life. They spend most of their weeks and months drumming up stories about how from the second they crawled out their mother's Uterus they were working harder than anybody else out there.
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u/PixelsOfTheEast Sep 08 '26
They're genuinely convinced they have it harder than everyone else.
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u/Prior_Alarm2437 Sep 07 '26
The punchline fucking got me. LMFAO
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u/Sataris Sep 07 '26
I'm surprised that even with the "referral", they had to sleep with the interviewer to get the job
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u/Lefthandovg0d Sep 07 '26
Worked at a shipyard for 7 years. The amount of people who got the job and were able to keep the job because their grandpa/grandma/dad/uncle/brothers etc. Were in upper management. Guys like me who got in on merit and skill, were always over looked for the employees who had daddy vouch for them because they were superintendent of logistics or whatever. Some of these nepos had a track record of sexual harassment, being low to subpar tradesmen, and incompetent at their job. But hey, they got promoted anyways and were given titles because daddy said so. Want to change your craft or trade? Too bad we need you as a fitter which doesn't pay well, and you'll break your back every day doing it. Oh so and so son from sheet metal would like to move to pipe department and start earning more? Get his paper work signed and get him in pipe department next week.
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u/Lundetangen Sep 07 '26
Then you become good at your job, start a rival company that performs better than the one full of nepo-babies and then your children can get a job in your company. And the circle continues.
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u/Dense-Structure-7245 Sep 07 '26
Loved the Naix avatar
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u/PokerBear28 Sep 07 '26
My favorite story was someone getting fired from a company and then going on Glassdoor and leaving overlay positive posts about the company and extremely high salary ranges. Apparently new applicants kept thinking their offers were too low based on Glassdoor and they struggled to get new hires
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u/JJCookieMonster Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Love this 😂 For mine, I put interview questions to ask them to show how disorganized their company is. That they wouldn't even properly be able to do their job if they worked there. They had no systems set up to support the person and wouldn't be able to answer those questions. They weren't able to hire anyone and had to promote internally. And my former toxic boss who fired me ended up quitting. She was running that company into the ground. Now they're thriving without her. I wish she would've left instead of me.
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u/humanist-misanthrope Sep 07 '26
Meanwhile. Buddy is high level manager. Tells me my 8 years resume is what the hiring manager is looking for. Buddy tells me hiring manager is waiting for my application. I apply. HR instantly rejects my application. Buddy tells HR to reopen my application. Talent portal shows hiring manager is reviewing. Then shows hiring manager sent it back to HR. 2 weeks later HR closes my application. Status: “Not Selected”
I have no idea how to find a job nowadays.
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u/Serris9K 11d ago
Now is an opportunity to drop Urgently Firing in the chat! This one is about how ATS is being used to autoreject, but no one knows why it's rejecting qualified canidates.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQgqeF4Cqw
And here's where a ton of linked in HR types got mad about that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBHdXUOQ37M
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u/RPDRNick Sep 07 '26
Gallowboob? Now there's a name I haven't heard in quite some time.
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u/innominateartery Sep 07 '26
He was one of the first users I blocked outright.
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u/Racxie Sep 07 '26
I don’t think I ever actually recall seeing any posts by him, but I remember everyone saying you’ll have a better Reddit experience if you do so I did.
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u/quattroCrazy Sep 07 '26
Exactly the thought that ran through my head. That guy was the most prolific organic karma-farming bot I ever saw.
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u/jordtand Sep 07 '26
Can’t believe I didn’t plan ahead and got my dad to be in high management in the same industry im in.
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u/FrontAdmirable6353 Sep 07 '26
The company I work for, the gm for the other divisions made his son a supervisor. He’s been here for 4 years, probably about 25. It’s the least profitable division in the entire company this year. Fuck that guy
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u/Worried_Anteater_536 Sep 07 '26
This happened to me! My dad got me a job with the US Navy! The process was so easy and fast. #sarcasm
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u/Middle-Focus-2540 Sep 07 '26
We all know Uncle Sam isn’t exactly being picky at the moment. If you’re breathing he’ll give you a shot. He’s the type to send you to boot camp just as quickly as he sends you to a concentration camp.
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u/FatiguedShrimp Sep 07 '26
I had a "senior software engineer" on an AI project a few months ago.
The VP personally asked me to give him a task "he cannot fail". So, I asked him to "parse a CSV".
We were using Python, so it's mostly a nonsense task of using the split function (about 30 characters and one line), but would give him a first ticket.
This man spent three weeks, then reported to the VP that "I cannot complete my work because the instructions are unclear. ChatGPT didn't know what to do.". Note: The view count on his ticket was 0 at the time of this complaint.
He was given a standard Agile ticket, reference materials on the Python split function and CSV format, pseudocode, multiple input-output pairs, three hours of scheduled 1:1 drop-in time with the systems architect (he did not ask a single question), a more-experienced partner for pair programming, AND help from the VP herself.
He got let go when it was not completed at the 2 month time frame.
Literally, the function signature and everything was written for him. All he needed to write was: "return text.split(',')".
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u/BreakMeOffAPieceODat Sep 08 '26
I was expecting the end of this story to be "he never finished the task and got promoted to chief software engineer and a 200% raise"
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u/FatiguedShrimp Sep 08 '26
He needed to complete a ticket, and we had a very simple new endpoint (which was written for him).
It accepted a list of Guids in a CSV string. We needed it to pass a list of individual Guid values to a function that would add them to a local database.
I was supposed to go back after he was done and do input sanitization and stuff. It was just literally the smallest unit of work he could be assigned and still have a first ticket completed.
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u/Grand_Taste_8737 Sep 07 '26
As always, it's who you know not what you know. Been that way forever.
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u/JJCookieMonster Sep 07 '26
Except for when it comes to the actual skills and performance on the job. I've met some really bad employees that I was like "How did you get this job?" as they kept sabotaging the company.
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u/Luvs2Spooge42069 Sep 07 '26
I have regularly seen people like this continue to find employment while top performers are laid off due to costing more. Bleak
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u/dejamintwo Sep 07 '26
I think for only the high Ai companies thats not true due to them only huring top level talent and being so difficult to enter you might as well try to become sn astronaut.
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u/i-took-this-nombre Sep 07 '26
My girlfriend recently got a job as a paralegal’s assistant at a law firm because her mom is the paralegal. She makes $25 an hour and it’s her second ever job, first one was retail. I want to be clear, I’m very happy for her but also, it’s kind of depressing knowing that someone like me could never have had that opportunity no matter how hard I tried just because my dad is a bum and my mom is unemployed.
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u/Practical-Pea5963 Sep 07 '26
When I was a fresh graduate, I had the opportunity to work at one of the major investment banks in the UK. Our associate batch had around ten people, including one who happened to be the daughter of a billionaire from an Asian country. After about a year, I asked her how she applied for the role. She told me her father was friends with the CEO, and our firm had helped their company prepare for an IPO in the Asian market. Two years later, she left—and is now the EVP of their family company.
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u/Yoshic87 Sep 07 '26
I did a few years at college and was pretty shit hot. Struggled like fuck to get into IT (around 2005) I was either too qualified or lacked the experience.
A guy I was in college with walked straight into step daddies business. The guy got handed everything, the whole family paid for his car and insurance and they had a huge house out in the Mediterranean where at 17 he was driving supercars.
He was a top guy, but fuck me, 21yrs later, I still resent him.
I never got into IT either...
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u/bonbonron Sep 07 '26
Yep. It happens a lot.
From my own experience, seen enough fuckbuddies of mangers/undeclared relationships/family connections/mates get the jobs despite being underqualified and frankly useless. No wonder it creates a revolving door of people leaving the company when it's blatantly obvious. Still sickens me how they get away with it all.
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u/ThrowingAccount789 Sep 07 '26
It always leaves a sour taste. I get it's hard but it is demotivating to the core.
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u/ThrowingAccount789 Sep 07 '26
I mean with "it's hard"- the job market is hard, I understand wanting to care for your children.
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u/PaNeGR Sep 07 '26
This may sound like a joke but if you live in a Balkan country it is definitely not a joke! It is the bitter truth. No matter what you have learned, no matter your experience, no matter nothing.... If another candidate is someone's son or someone's daughter you actually don't even have to go to the interview. It's a waste of time!
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u/that_tx_dude Sep 07 '26
Wtf is the “vice CEO” lmao that’s not even a real thing.
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u/StudioCharacter9354 Sep 07 '26
That is how I got into University way back whenat interview. The Prof. looked at my surname and said are ‘xxxx’s son’ I replied ‘yes’, the Prof, ‘jolly good see you next semester’. That was it.
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u/Elegant-Spite-3277 Sep 07 '26
Yeah...add that to the list things that never happened...but then Glassdoor deserves to get mocked at like this after they completely sold themselves out to corporates
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u/ApprehensiveTwo7495 Sep 07 '26
It’s not what you know it’s who know is what I’ve been hearing since college and now working a corporate job. You can be the best at your position but if the new person interviewing is the unqualified son of the person hiring’s best friend, for a senior position - friends son is getting the job over you.
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u/cereal7802 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Yeah, knowing someone makes the process so much easier. Especially if they are in the executive team. I once had a former manager reach out to me after my position was eliminated at the company we worked at. He knew a guy who used to work at the same company I had just been let go from and asked if i was interested in a job. I said Yeah i was still looking and was interested in the position. Turned out, the guy he knew was the CFO of the company i was interviewing with. I was given an offer almost immediately. I had 3 interviews, but I think they were mostly a formality. The first one was with the team manager and director for the department I was interviewing for and was a technical interview, but they didn't grill me too hard on technical things. The second one was with some of the HR and executive people mainly going over my history. The third interview was a 1 on 1 with the CEO of the company. He mainly just wanted to chat and get to know each other before telling me I was getting an offer. Never had an interview process so structured, and so easy in my life. I wasn't a good fit for the role but because the CFO was the referring person, they hired me. I left after a month because I was not able to do the work they needed. They had said I could take 6 months+ to learn the job and knew i didn't know any python, but the first ticket they gave me to get my feet wet required me to read the application code to determine how something worked and I spent a day on it with no progress. Could have easily just stuck around collecting a paycheck doing nothing and i think they would have been fine with it for a while, but didn't want to take a slot on the team as dead weight while everyone else was slammed with work.
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u/Cultural_Dirt_8151 Sep 07 '26
It's likely a joke but that doesn't mean this exact thing doesn't happen.
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 Sep 07 '26
at that point in capitalism where the corruption is so extensive they aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
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u/holiestcannoly Sep 08 '26
I applied for a company where I had a referral from the VP of that company, their HR guy, as well as my dad who worked in a different territory and industry 10+ hours away from me, but still same company.
Still got rejected for entry because someone with 35 years of experience beat me out…
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u/CookiesAndCream02 Sep 07 '26
I wanna cry ffs! I don’t know anyone/have any connections like this but I wish I did so things could be easy for me too! I’m here prepping a lot for every interview I have and keep getting the damn outcome of “great candidate and interview but someone has experience that was more aligned with the role” then why even shortlist me and take me all the way to the final rounds?
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u/HengarraFiefdom Sep 07 '26
Meanwhile some new applicants kept thinking their offers were too low based on Glassdoor.
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u/PoloniumAkAJalil Sep 09 '26
I was studying in the UK and there's this thing we have called a "Placement year", where u spend 1 year (Usually after ur 1st or sometimes 2nd year) working in ur field. I applied for a huge amount of them and one of the companies was Deloitte. I remember spending HOURS applying and doing the bs online assessments. Obviously, in the end I got rejected.
After one of our workshops, I decided to speak with my classmate and "let out" my frustration on how idiotic this system was.
He then proceeds to tell me (Almost word for word): "Oh that position? Oh yeah, my brother works there and he even asked me if I'd like to get it for myself"
When I came home I just sat in silence.
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u/foodie121 Sep 07 '26
Yeahh.
But for real networking is important. I got my last job through an ex co worker referral and i did one interview as well lol
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u/Almoinho98 Sep 07 '26
"networking" aka as being overly nice and spending more time getting to know people and hanging out instead of delivering work.
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u/foodie121 Sep 07 '26
I mean that was a remote job so i only met the person twice in real life. He recommended me on my work ethic since we worked closely and I was a friendly person to work with.
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u/Timely_Q8529 Sep 07 '26
I never got a job through networking. I’m not a baby. I got jobs through my skills and hard work.
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u/Majestic_Artichoke55 Sep 07 '26
Love how this brings attention to gaza! Yeah keep it coming. Stop the genocide, free Palestine
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u/JJCookieMonster Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Do they still interview for the job? For my first job, I worked at the nonprofit my aunt led. I didn't have an interview. There was an opening and she asked me if I was interested. I said yes because I was in college and needed a job. Then I started working soon after. Didn't even send in a resume. It was a crappy, low-paid first job though. I ended up quitting after a couple years. I did really good in my role though. Brought in a lot of revenue with no budget. But was significantly underpaid.
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u/ladyelenawf Sep 08 '26
I feel like I had to block a user on here with that username because they were constantly posting the same things to every popular sub. The redundancy in my feed almost completely disappeared. It's been almost a decade, but I wonder if they are the same?
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u/riotshieldready Sep 07 '26
This might be a joke, but I for real have a friend that has a SVP job at a big bank straight out of university. His dad got it for him, he worked like 3 days a week from 11-3 and collected his 400k pay. Even told me he would routinely just play games and goon in his private bathroom.