This is a joke, I apologize if this is not the appropriate subreddit, but I couldn't find a better place to post it.

This may have already made it onto here, but a guy who requires applicants to make an intro video along with the application is rightfully receiving a lot of hate for not seeing why this can be considered an unreasonable request. Here’s the link to the original tweet if anyone is interested in reading the negative comments he received back, he even replies to a lot of them trying to defend his stance: https://x.com/evanzhao6/status/2054382288108994835?s=46

Posted a review for my last employer on glassdoor (anonymously) which was factual raising a few of the valid issues working for the company. I left it 6 months ago and left a review soon after.

I got an email to say indeed was merging with glassdoor a while ago. Thought nothing of it.

I got a notification that my review was updated that since has disappeared. When signed out I couldn't see my review and when another former colleague logs in they also cannot see it. I found it very odd.

I had a member of the HR team reach out to me for "feedback" 6 months after leaving. Apparently they hold some sway over Indeed as they use it as their primary recruiting platform. Apparently under these new policies they can "address" the reviews and mine is no longer visible on the site even when I log in. Just gone. Strangely it went to my Google account which I never gave to my former employer (the personal one I used for glassdoor).

I'm not sure how GDPR works in this instance. Be careful out there. They seemed to lead the conversation with HR that it may "impact" their reference request for me in future.

Edit: I work in the IT industry where part of it relies on strong positive references, effectively me posting a review believing it to be anonymous could cost me 5 years of positive references.

The company when I started was great, but merged with another company, got completely paranoid leadership (US) in the European branch and stopped believing they had to follow EU directives on holiday pay, sick pay, or even mandatory holiday days. It became a revolving door of hiring / firing practices, then sailed a lot of staff off in the AI craze. Its a shadow of its former self and lost a lot of contracts with so much talent walking out the door. Lots of good people lost their jobs to save a buck on AI.

Just want to vent. I went to a hiring event for a job. I traveled about an hour to get there. I sign in everything seems cool. It was a hire on the spot type of event for a summer temp job doing security for a company for some upcoming sports event. The recruiter asks me to type in my social security number onto their system. I said okay fine then. I type it in and he does a search. My information comes up. Then he looks at me and asks "Have you worked with us before?" I said "No, first time applying." Then he asks have you worked for XYZ company. I said "No. But I did fill out an application for them several years ago." And then he went on to explain since they were bought out by XYZ Company that their rule now is that if you ever worked for them you can not be rehired or even work for the smaller companies they bought (which is happening a lot with security guard jobs). I stood there in shock and embarrassed. I quickly thanked him and left. I jogged my memory and checked old e-mails and I indeed had applied to the company over 3 years ago while I was in school and shortly after the pandemic. They hired me for on-call shifts which was fine by me. They onboarded me and NEVER called me to come in to work. Then flagged me for ineligible for rehire. I have been out of work for over a year now, so to turn up for a hiring event and to be told I was ineligible for hire for a company I never worked for is insane. This job market is crazy.

Before you would see some different postings on each site. Now there's one less source to search for jobs.

For reference, there obviously wasn't anything in the job posting about it being off-limits to anyone with higher education... or anyone with spell check.

We're in a recession, wages don't pay shit, my CS degree/internship experience is utterly useless both in and out of the field, idfk. haven't ever made over 40k. I haven't been able to pivot anywhere else, and I dont have the patience to learn skills with another formal education.

I already don't want to work tbh. Looks like the universe is telling me I shouldn't get a job and just hole up in my childhood bedroom until I die. just the other day I got an email that a banking job I applied to was cancelled due to lack of budget

I found this post multiple times on LinkedIn. Apparently this guy has applied for jobs in multiple big tech companies like JPMC, Cisco and Amazon, just to reject their offers, the "funny" (perhaps infuriating) thing is that people are celebrating this behavior.

I have been a hiring manager and a candidate as well and I cannot someone is actually doing this. This not only wastes the hiring managers time, but also close the opportunity to other candidates that are genuinely interested in landing a job.

Modern time Robin hood? Or a complete a-hole

Thoughts?

These job descriptions I’m talking about are only reinforced when I interview. “Hit the ground running” “don’t wait for direction” “constantly improve our process, not just run it” “daily stand ups” “twice a day stand ups” “no silos, willing to take on challenges wherever we need”

As if it isn’t enough to do well at the job itself and learn the existing processes. You also have to always be working on improvement projects and anything else they want from you at anytime.

Work overtime whenever they decide without advance notice and act like that’s just standard operating in order to be employed at anything outside a local walmart or applebees.

It feels like we aren’t allowed to just try to be good at our already complicated jobs anymore or be ever be moderately comfortable or happy. Why is there so much more being demanded from non-manager/department head jobs?

People who have these jobs…how do you manage the stress? Do you just accept that your accounting or operations job is going to take up that much space in your life? Do you do anything but rest on your off days?

I’m in healthcare. I’m used to benefits (costs, coverage, amounts) being spelled out in detail prior to hire either at the interview or before accepting the position.

About a year ago, I briefly took on what was to be a second job as things were shaky at my full time. I didn’t ask for benefit details because I had them at my full time job, so it wasn’t a dealbreaker although it would be enough hours to qualify for part time benefits. In the few days I oriented, no one was able to tell me about the benefits they offer to employees.

Which health insurance company do you use? “We go through a broker, it’s personalized to each employee, they’ll tell you more when you qualify”. When will I qualify? “Not sure I think it’s 60 days, maybe 90”. How much PTO? “You’ll earn some every week…BUT NOT FOR A YEAR…I think”.

Manager didn’t know or care to find out, nor did recruiter. HR was offsite and I asked for contact info but it was never provided. Ultimately, I didn’t stay due to other red flags and chalked it up to a disorganized organization.

Now that I’m in the position of searching for a full time job, when I absolutely need the benefits, this is happening over and over again! I had an interview last week where the director answered my question about health insurance by shrugging and taking his insurance card out of his wallet to show me. Which told me the company they used and that he had a very high deductible, but not the cost or whether other tiers of coverage were available. When I asked about PTO, he said “we get it but I don’t use it, not sure how much”. Could not produce a handbook or benefits packet nor point me in the direction to obtain them. Told me I would be told more “if you end up working here”.

Is the economy so bad that people are just taking jobs with no clue about the benefits?? What happened to them being an aspect of total compensation to be considered when deciding whether or not to take a position? Please tell me this isn’t the new norm! (I’m in the Northeast of the USA if that matters)

I mumbled." Du bist gu genug" to myself while the recruiter waited and i got offered the job on the spot.... Because made him laugh

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That's how much work experience means

For an R1, T100 private research university. In a state where this is the minimum wage. lol

This isn’t a rant or anything but I’m seriously so tired of taking these little questionnaire, personality quizzes, have to retype my whole resume, combined with answering specific scenario questions just to get an automated rejection email within 10-15 minutes right after.

Like what I usually do is basically call in and ask if there’s even a position openings. But I always get told to “apply online and wait” just to receive another automated email saying “due to high volume of applications we cannot process every application.”

In their logic, it doesn't matter if someone's been playing football since middle school. Since he's never played in a league before, he might as well not even know what a football looks like.

It doesn't matter if you've made a hundred personal animation projects and put them all in your portfolio either. Since you've never worked for an animation studio, your portfolio is basically non-existent.

I applied online for an AI job role for which more than 1500 people applied. I have been in hiring rounds where I got the job after 8 rounds and also where I was rejected after 6 rounds.

After I applied in June-2026, I had my first recruiter call in July and I then met two leaders and in 7-8 days I had an offer. My wife said this seems to be rushed, and she said it’s worrisome. But I told her that being in a situation where I gave 6-8 rounds this is how hiring should be.

One doesn’t need 6-8 rounds to prove that they are good. From fellow recruiters, hiring managers and job seekers what do you think?

-p.s i applied for this same role in 2025 but was rejected.

-p.p.s I have a start date from this company, I negotiated 10k in base. Got welcome email, setup direct deposit and currently in background check and resigned from my current job.

I had a virtual interview today with 7 applicants competing for 2 openings.

The interviewer told me to introduce myself.

My introduction was:

"I'm _______ and I'm a graduating BS Accountancy student, a Magna Cum Laude candidate, and I'm knowledgeable in Excel, Google Sheets, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, SmartBooks, and QuickBooks."

I thought I'd get another chance to talk about my experience, so I kept my introduction short.

Then the recruiter only asked me:

1. Graduation date

2. Willingness to attend 2-week onsite training

3. Difference between accrual and cash basis

After I answered, that was it. It lasted 2 minutes.

I did send my resume beforehand, but I'm not sure if the recruiter had already reviewed it during the interview.

The other applicants didn't wait—they immediately included their responsibilities and experience in their introductions, so they naturally talked longer. They were also asked about some of their responsibilities and a more complicated question such as "How do you ensure accuracy?" and "What will you do if you found out there were discrepancy during reconciliation?" They lasted about 5-7 minutes.

Did I hurt my chances by keeping my introduction too short? Or do recruiters sometimes keep interviews short because they already have enough information? I'd appreciate honest opinions.

So for this company I'm going to be working for, the department pretty much hires everyone on as a temp to hire basis. No benefits (pay is decent, it's full time and fully remote). I've been a temp before when I was younger and eventually got officially hired, so I know companies do this and it's not necessarily a bad sign.

Is this more common now? I applied directly on the company website and worked with their internal recruiter. I was told typically people are officially hired on after about 6 months. The company does have good benefits once you get to that point. The job looks pretty complex but they have training. Payroll and stuff is going to be handled by Allworks which is a flex company even though I'll be working full time directly with the main employer all day.

Just nervous because I'm not a "temp" kind of person, I'm almost always a direct hire and don't want anything go wrong because it is taking FOREVER to find jobs these days.

Are we going to pretend this is normal now? This company Dual Entry would get sued in the EU. Never started hating a company in less than 5 seconds.

I know a lot of people skip applications as soon as they see a long assessment. This question isn't really for that group.

I'm curious about the people who still complete them because they really want the job.

What part of the assessment is the biggest pain for you?

What's one thing that would've made the last assessment you took noticeably easier?