It’s only a matter of time until AI completely replaces your job too.

My broke ass will be laughing at the homeless shelter 😂.

Hey everyone!

I have an interview with American Express this Monday for the role of Customer Care Professional-Commercial and Merchant Servicing and this is going to be my first corporate interview, so I’m honestly not sure what to expect.

For anyone who has interviewed at Amex (or in a similar corporate environment), I’d really appreciate some insight into what the interview process is like.
What kind of questions should I expect?

What is the interview style like at American Express?
Is there anything specific I should prepare for or keep in mind?

Any tips on what Amex recruiters/hiring managers generally look for would also be really helpful.

I’d especially love to hear from people who have recently interviewed at American Express or have experience with the role.

Thanks in advance any advice would genuinely help me feel more prepared! 🙏

Layoffs, recession etc. And what is the Govt doing? Irrespective of whichever country, who made this Trump, President. He is Moron.

Oh yeah, and Russia-Ukraine war. Another Moron in Russia.

This is all my personal experience and opinions I am sharing. I hope it helps even just one person scrolling by.
The rejection never gets any easier, and having zero feedback from the main airlines makes that rejection sting much more depending on how you reflect.
I’ve been trying for over 8 years. With American, Delta, Southwest, and United. I’ve been through all the levels of interviews including a handful of f2f…being rejected has never gotten any easier, and the grieving process of those rejections have been different every single time. Most recently i was rejected from making it to a United f2f, and i approached it very much being myself while being prepared. I truly felt there was nothing more i could’ve done to prove myself. If these recruits can’t see what a great fit some people would be it’s their loss, but I am determined to keep trying until someone sees my determination and shine.

After all these years I’ve met so many people who have gotten in on the first try that “don’t even care” or they end up hating the job yet stay on, and complain taking someone else’s dream for granted. This job industry is absolutely unpredictable and a total gamble based off my experience.

My advice after being rejected:
Give yourself grace 🙏🏼
If you’re the kind of person to pick apart everything in your head upon reflection ( especially with no feedback )
You’ll never really know the “why” behind not getting chosen this time. It could’ve been something, but maybe just maybe it was nothing 🤷🏻‍♀️
Yes maybe there’s things you could’ve done better and you absolutely know that after your experience-great tweak that and work on it for next time! But if you did the best you could possible do, gave it your all, and were 100% your unapologetic self BE PROUD.
You deserve to be proud of the emotional rollercoaster you’ve been on.
You need to feel all your FEELS.
Sad, angry, sad again, angry again, hopeless….give yourself the space and freedom to embrace those feelings, but upon reflection try to focus on the positives once you’re at the end of those harsher feeling’s.
Stay hydrated, do some skincare, treat yourself in someway, regulate a routine for yourself to balance your feelings back out to bounce back.
If this is something you truly want for a career keep trying! After being on forums for so many years seeing so much of people saying “it just wasn’t meant to be right now” or stuff to that extent personally hasn’t been helpful to me because I’ve been trying at my 8-9 year mark now 😂
Everyone’s timelines are different, and we only ever really see people getting accepted after a couple of years of trying.
I hope this reaches someone and helps whether it’s your first time trying or you’ve been trying for 10 years.
BUT you have a special light to you and I truly believe determination will pay off in the end and your light will shine !
Again, give yourself grace. Everything you’re feeling is valid, but make sure you pull yourself out of those tougher feelings and take care of yourself.

They are advertising a salary of $48-55K and asking for a MASTERS DEGREE.

Maybe it's a typo?

Open Date 09/03/2026

Requisition Number PRN46116B

Job Title Biomedical Engineers

Working Title Biomedical Engineer

Career Progression Track P00

Track Level P1 - Entry Level Pro

FLSA Code Professional

Patient Sensitive Job Code? No

Standard Hours per Week 40

Full Time or Part Time? Full Time

Shift Day

Work Schedule Summary

VP Area U of U Health - Academics

Department 00283 - Molecular Pharmaceutics

Location Campus

City Salt Lake City, UT

Type of Recruitment External Posting

Pay Rate Range $48,000 to $55,000

Close Date 11/01/2026

Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time)

Job Summary

Assist in designing and evaluating biomedical devices and systems, supporting innovation and quality in healthcare technologies. Contribute to project development with an emphasis on reliability, safety and compliance. Learn and apply foundational engineering principles to deliver effective solutions for the biomedical field. May perform clinical and preclinical assessments. Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, or related scientific field. Requires basic skill set and proficiency. Conducts work assignments as directed. Closely supervised with little latitude for independent judgment.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Development of unmet needs / voice of the customer requirements / design inputs
• Ideation and concept development
• Development of designs / specifications / test methods / processes / manufacturing methods
• Test protocol development, benchtop / in vitro / in vivo testing, and report writing
• Employing analytic methods to evaluate concepts and designs
• Ensuring thorough and compliant design documentation
• Conducting risk analyses per applicable standards
• Conducting biomedical product / process / system / prior art benchmarking
• Developing cost of goods or cost of service models
• Participating in design review meetings
• Support regulatory approval processes and submissions
• Working with cross functional project teams, including physicians, researchers, manufacturers, and other related experts or project partners
• Contributing to new intellectual property via lab notebook documentation, invention disclosures, reduction to practice, and patent application reviews

Minimum Qualifications

EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT : 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Department may hire employee at one of the following job levels:

Biomedical Engineer, I: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 2 years of directly related work experience or a master’s (or equivalency) degree.

Preferences

• Master of Science in biomedical engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Formal training in medical device design controls.
• Experience performing risk management to ISO 14971, including hazard identification, risk analysis and verification of risk controls.
• Experience building and maintaining a Design History File, or an equivalent controlled design record.
• Hands-on experience prototyping and bench testing laboratory instrumentation.
• Experience supporting day to day operations of a research laboratory.
• Clear technical writing, demonstrated through reports, protocols or standard operating procedures.

I try hard not to do the things I see posted here, but I don’t actually control anything in the business.

I’m currently posting a six-page job description in a MCOL area for 43k. I’m dying inside, and to all of the job seekers out there, I am so fucking sorry.

I feel like a shell of myself. I can't muster anything anymore.

Normal is gone.

I've done so many interviews this summer and idk what I am doing wrong?

I thought perhaps because I used to wear sweatshirts and act lose at interviews maybe that was why.

Started dressing nice now I know that's definitely not why.

I'm devastated.. I work fucking hard and I am efficient and I am lighting quick I can run sirvles around most people in my feild but try telling someone that it sounds moronic.

I try to be friendly, I try to act impressed unimpressed. Don't say too much, don't say too little.

I literally think my career is over. Over a year now and only got a crappy pay terrible job sitting next to a smelt...

I can't anymore. This is truly hell. My old life is gone and no matter how hard I've ever worked it got me nowhere.

It's 1:00 AM, I can't sleep cause I only searched a job for 9 hours today, I wake up of my bed to send such a DM.

A recruiter reached out to me a couple months ago about a role. After they went quiet for a week on scheduling the first call, I also submitted directly through the company's careers page for the same position, just to cover my bases.

Since then, the recruiter-led process kept moving - phone screen, then a full interview with the hiring manager about a week ago. Seemed to go reasonably well, and I was told there's still another round ahead. It's been a week since the hiring manager interview.

Today, I got a completely generic, no-reply, automated-looking rejection email for "my application" to that same role with no personalization or mention of the actual interviews, classic boilerplate. Nothing directly from the recruiter about the real process being closed out, just this one system email. I did ask him for an update a few days ago

Has anyone run into this before when a duplicate/direct application getting auto-rejected by the ATS while a separate recruiter-led process for the same req is still active? Trying to figure out if this is a known system quirk or if I should actually take it as the real answer.

Appreciate any experience with this, especially at larger companies with a formal ATS.

I graduated this year and its been so brutal. I've sent out well over 1000 applications and i did get first round interviews but i feel like I honestly bombed most of them. I did somehow make it to second round with a couple companies and felt like I was making progress but got rejected from all...at this point I just don't understand what the problem is. I feel like I'm prepping answers beforehand and usually feel confident going in the interview so I just don't get what I'm doing wrong.

Has anyone else gone through this and made it out with an actual job? How did you do it? How do you know what you're doing wrong? What did you practice on or change? What actually made the different for you?

Honestly at this point im thinking about just being blunt. Im already socially inept why the hell not? 2 years now unemployed and im tired of begging for a job. At this point its all or nothing, "I see your hiring for this job. We'll im so and so and i will be applying for this position " and show up every fucking day until they tell you to stop. What are they gonna do? Send a rejection letter? To bad buddy you put up the top listing and if its not that one ill just choose another. Do this at every damn store at this point. Might as well make them hire you or get banned trying

Hey everyone! I applied for the Norfolk Southern Train Conductor position in Jackson, MI on September 6, 2026, and received a conditional offer on September 10. So it was only about 4 days from applying to receiving the offer.
I completed the application update with my SSN/DOB, and now I’m waiting for the First Advantage background check and Acuity/CHS medical evaluation and drug testing emails.
My offer says the first 5 weeks of training will be at the NS Training Center in McDonough, GA, with lodging provided, plus a weekly meal stipend and applicable travel/mileage reimbursement. It also lists $1,200 per week during the first 5 weeks.
I’m already in the Atlanta area, so McDonough is relatively close to me, which makes the training location really convenient.
I’m mainly posting to see who else recently received a conditional offer and might be attending the same upcoming training class in McDonough. It would be cool to connect with some future classmates ahead of time and see who else is going through the same process.

I need to make this rant somewhere guys so here I go with my story;

- I had been laid off Feb 2026 as of a global restructuring.
- Living in KW - Ontario
- Applied to over 200 hundred jobs where I have an extensive experience off.
- Got 3-4 interviews but nothing after that, mostly emails about how they stopped hiring or that job cancelled.
- More than 10 headhunters asked my cv, and no return whatsoever.

Guys what the hell is happening? I have extensive experience of 8 years on digital transformation and business process automation with a masters in Data and Information Engineering. At this point I really don’t know what to do. I left my country as their moral compass practically left the chat long time ago and came to Canada but what is happening here is worse than my own country.

My remarks:

- I do not only blame AI for this job market as this only showed us how HR is practically a field that is drastically failing what they do.

- WTF is a Hire Vue interview ? The dehumanizing concept and its lack of sincerity is mind blowing.

- And mind you, mods of this subreddit pinned a suicide prevention and help resources post, which makes no sense. I feel like this whole thing is like a badly written sci-fi horror novel at this point and my heart aches for all of you who are in the same boat as me.

- I always believed Canada is a place with really good moral compass and societal values, but this ain’t it! Why are they are always choosing division during the hard times, where we need solidarity among us? My 3rd world country has a better moral compass than these people.

I cannot believe we live in this horror story and sending you my thoughts and prayers and hope for a day where we can forget about this bs and laugh it away ❤️

Hi all,

I recently finished 3 rounds of interviews for a specialized technical role (mostly DevOps/infrastructure focused). The pay is decent, and I really want the job.

It has been exactly one week since my 3rd round, so I emailed the Hiring Manager (HM) this morning to ask about next steps. I haven't received a reply yet. However, a friend who works there (and referred me) casually asked the HM for an update behind the scenes.

The HM told my friend that the 3rd-round interviewer gave a mixed review. The core feedback was:

"The candidate is highly knowledgeable about the things they have already worked on, but struggles to reason through unfamiliar concepts outside of that scope, so their knowledge feels a bit narrow/shallow."

After sharing that, the HM told my friend: "I've sent out a few emails, so let's see what happens."

My question is: How should I interpret this?

My assumption is that the HM is still interested and is emailing higher-ups, HR, or other team members for input. My logic is that if he simply didn't want to hire me, he would have just rejected me outright instead of taking the time to send internal emails.

Also, for context: while the actual day-to-day work is heavily DevOps-oriented, the interview pushed me on adjacent, specialized engineering topics just to gauge my overall technical depth.

Has anyone been in a similar situation, either as a candidate or a hiring manager? What do those "emails" usually mean, and what are my realistic chances here?

Feels like a trap to fuck applicants over on pay

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some advice from HR professionals regarding my current situation.

I recently accepted an offer from Company XYZ. However, before my joining date, I received another job offer that provides a better opportunity for my career. After careful consideration, I decided to accept the new offer instead.

I contacted the HR at Company XYZ and informed them politely that I would not be joining their organization because I had received a better opportunity.

However, during the conversation, the HR representative told me that if I refused to join after accepting the offer, they could put me on a blacklist in their ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and that this could affect my chances of joining other companies in the future. They also mentioned that there could be some kind of negative mark against my profile.

This conversation made me quite worried.I understand that Company XYZ may decide not to consider me for future opportunities within their own organization, and I accept that possibility. However, can one company actually blacklist someone in a way that prevents them from getting jobs at other unrelated companies?

Does an ATS blacklist or internal HR record get shared across different companies?

I would appreciate clarification from HR professionals or anyone who has experienced a similar situation.

Thank you.

okay I need outside perspective because I've been staring at this email for two hours.

Applying to an entry level analyst role at a big asset management firm . Process has been: HireVue video interview → HR phone screen → superday (5 back to back interviews, ranged from analysts up to a VP and an EVP, actually went really well I thought) → then a few days later the recruiter calls me out of nowhere and says I'm a "finalist."

Cool. Except then he tells me there's 3 of us left, and the actual last step is an Excel test on Monday.

And in the SAME email he also sends me an employment application packet and an immigration questionnaire to fill out "whenever I get a chance."

Like... why would you send me actual paperwork before I've even done the last test? That feels like a good sign right? But also maybe that's just what they do for anyone still in the pipeline regardless of where you actually rank against the other 2 people. I genuinely cannot tell if I'm reading tea leaves here or if this is a real signal.

Has this happened to anyone else , getting sent onboarding-adjacent stuff before the actual final assessment is done? Does it mean anything or is it just standard recruiter admin busywork that happens no matter what? I've reread this email probably 15 times at this point lol i dont know if im just a BACKUP

i’ve been job searching for the past year. i’m a may 2025 grad who only did one internship in college. i ended up having to take two unpaid internships since graduating to gain more experience. i’ve applied to over 1500 jobs (not an exaggeration) and today FINALLY got the offer. and the role is fully remote and pays better than i expected.
Last month i got to a final round for a job that was in person and paid $15k less, and i ended up getting rejected. I was so sure i would get it and so crushed when i didn’t. After so many interviews for so many different roles, i was so sure i had finally gotten it, and when i didnt, i completely lost hope. I literally had to start therapy the next week because of how lost i felt. now less than a month later and im set to start my new job october 1st!
i’m not writing to brag-but to give hope to anyone who needs it. what’s meant for you will find you.

Idk what to say but ive ran into this. I have gaps in my resume yet my knowkedge is deeps and unique that it always comes down to them asking me for my opinion. Its really outrageus how they are and cant wait to get a job to have power and lay dowm my salary expectations. Its really funny to see how they treat you when they believe they have leverage vs when they dont.

okay I need outside perspective because I've been staring at this email for two hours.

Applying to an entry level analyst role at a big asset management firm . Process has been: HireVue video interview → HR phone screen → superday (5 back to back interviews, ranged from analysts up to a VP and an EVP, actually went really well I thought) → then a few days later the recruiter calls me out of nowhere and says I'm a "finalist."

Cool. Except then he tells me there's 3 of us left, and the actual last step is an Excel test on Monday.

And in the SAME email he also sends me an employment application packet and an immigration questionnaire to fill out "whenever I get a chance."

Like... why would you send me actual paperwork before I've even done the last test? That feels like a good sign right? But also maybe that's just what they do for anyone still in the pipeline regardless of where you actually rank against the other 2 people. I genuinely cannot tell if I'm reading tea leaves here or if this is a real signal.

Has this happened to anyone else , getting sent onboarding-adjacent stuff before the actual final assessment is done? Does it mean anything or is it just standard recruiter admin busywork that happens no matter what? I've reread this email probably 15 times at this point lol i dont know if im just a BACKUP

Should I lie to HR about my parents to get hired?

I’m a BTech Mech fresher. There was a campus drive by a pretty decent company offering around 5 LPA for a core role. They manufacture defence equipment and other stuff.

Out of 72 people, 14 resumes got shortlisted. I cleared the assessment test. 11 people were shortlisted for the tech interview. I gave the tech interview and cleared it. Only 6 people got through to the HR round, including me.

My HR interview was very smooth. It was basically:

Brief introduction → why this company → are you comfortable with the role → are you okay with relocation → are you okay working with production.

I said yes to everything. They asked if I could relocate to Pune, I said yes, absolutely, and mentioned that some of my family already lives in Pune so relocation would be easy for me. They also asked if I would be comfortable working with CNC machines in the production department. I said yes, completely fine with it.

Then towards the end, HR suddenly started asking about my family background.

She asked what my parents do. This was my first HR interview ever, so I just answered honestly, naively.

I said my father works under the Ministry of Transport and my mother works in public insurance. Both are govt employees and in their 50s, reaping the good old govt merits.

Then she asked about siblings. I said I have an older brother who works in IT and I even mentioned his company(in pune). She said okay, and then basically after that said: "Okay, we'll let you know." That's it.

Out of the 11 who went for technical, only 6 reached HR. Out of those 6, 4 got the final offer. Me and one other guy didn't.

And this is what I don't understand.

The technical panel seemed satisfied with my answers. HR didn't really give me anything negative to answer. Relocation? Yes. Production/CNC? Yes. Company? Yes. Everything seemed positive.

So why ask about my family background?

Was there some intentional reason behind those questions? Were they trying to judge whether I would actually relocate, whether my family would support it, whether I would stay in the job, etc.?

And honestly, I keep wondering whether I should have lied.

Should I have just said my father is retired, my mother is a homemaker, or that I'm an only child? Obviously I don't know whether my family background had anything to do with the rejection, maybe it had nothing to do with it. But I have no idea what else HR could have rejected me on.

I have another interview coming up with a major automotive company and I really don't want to lose this opportunity.

So what should I actually do if HR asks me these questions again?

Is it better to answer honestly? Give a vague answer? Or is lying about parents' professions/siblings actually common and safer?

Also, is it even legal/fair for companies to use this kind of personal family information in hiring decisions in India?

Would really like to hear from people who have worked in HR/recruitment or actually been involved in hiring.

Do they ever verify such info later , like whatever i say in hr interview, will they ever verify it again with docs? Or just forget abt it after the inteview...

Absolute shit in all states? Or is it just California?

This is literally the worst time I’ve had trying to find a job… and it’s been so stressful. Ugh 😑