Economy for IT workers TRACKER

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

An account executive who some of us have worked with landed at another spot. Think it was less than a month of being out. I'm very happy for the person.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

An online gambling place passed on a colleague of ours who is the best worker I've ever worked with. It was a stupid decision on their part. They are also using Java and Selenium, instead of JavaScript and Playwright, so their stack is stupid. What a stupid place, to pass on a person like that.

Another colleague got feedback that I will try to share at some point. Some of the feedback was really bad - we are using Cypress, not Playwright and we made the decision to bring him in, but let's mention that he hasn't used Cypress three times! Some of it was good, in terms of going more in depth about things. I do think that is a common mistake people make in interviews. Never use the word "we", it's tough because most people are humble, but nobody wants to know what the team did, they want to hear about what you specifically did.

A third colleague is the last guy standing for a 20-person remote company, I guess there was one last round and hopefully he gets it.

It seems like jobs are out there, more than a year ago. It seems like interviewing is just as broken and stupid and moronic as it ever was. Why can't AI help with that?

[Casual Observer]

It seems like jobs are out there, more than a year ago. It seems like interviewing is just as broken and stupid and moronic as it ever was. Why can't AI help with that?

If anything its making it worse, I guess people are getting interviewed by AI now, I would never submit to that. ATS systems have been automatically rejecting people using AI for years apparently. Apparently these days the only way to get a job is by knowing someone.

[Da King]

It seems like interviewing is just as broken and stupid and moronic as it ever was. Why can't AI help with that?

Ha! So fun story here.

Shawn had his final interview with Wegmans today (38 years to the week after his old man... brings a tear to my eye). The guy that he was interviewing with... I think it was the prepared foods area manager... says, "I dont know why I have to ask you this, but here it is", and proceeds to ask him some asinine, ultra-confusing question that neither of them understood. Shawn was like, "I dont even know what that means". The guy said "Me neither. Thats good enough for me."

Unreal.

Wegmans supposedly had 350k applicants for 10k jobs last year. Thats insane. Thank god I was able to make some connections to get him a legit interview!!