We expect you to be independent as soon as you come in
It's OK to ask questions, but we won't baby you through the work (aka, clearly showing all the steps. You're expected to figure out the steps on your own*)
If you have a PhD It's seen as low work experience. We expect you to get a PhD on the side (which also means no pay and you're working while doing the PhD). BTW, PhDs are counting as working employees for the purpose of getting student discounts and housing. They are given salaries.
Companies these days prefer to keep low headcounts and off-load the work onto interns and agency flexible workers
This country is a "relationship based country" so you need good social skills (and nepotism) to get a job. If you make friends during your internship it matters more than doing a good job because then your friend will recomend you to the recruiters and the recruiters won't even bother posting jobs online.

*this is genuinely what she said. I'm not exaggerating. Imagine being at an engineering company and expecting the new hires to fucking do the thing on their own and I guess fuck up whatever experimental/proprietary/institutional/tech debt/whatever tf process you have.

This is the state of capitalism here. In any socialist revolution we are 100% going to have to destroy the scrouge known as "networking" (aka corruption). All jobs should go through a common online portal that takes anonymous applications!

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was kinda having fun at networking events. Would I ever ever ever ever eeeeeveerrrrrr meet PhD candidate students, literally hoping to be rocket scientists, at my local university otherwise? No way! Am I talking about things that are useful to others while I'm doing my hobbies? Maybe passingly sometimes.

Gripping and grinning isn't my favorite thing, but it's not... le bad!

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Networking events are fun. This much I understand.

But the simple fact is that jobs are distributed on the basis of not merit or even lottery, but through how big your social circle is and how good you are at cheesing your profiles. This isn't even hidden. Everybody at career training is pretty explicitly telling me this.

I don't think jobs in a socialist economy should be distributed on such an arbitrary basis.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I feel like you might be overlooking how terrible interviews and job postings are at determining whether people are qualified, which is another big driver of this

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Oh don't get me wrong. Job interviews are also mostly terrible and personality based. The whole system needs an overhaul

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At most places of business, interviews and vetting systems are just ways to create plausible deniability; it’s not our fault the candidate we hired sucks, his resume passed the AI filter, everyone at the five interview panels he went through liked him, he aced the cognitive test we bought from that HR consulting firm that promised only the best candidates would pass.

I’m in a sort of similar boat in my job, they want to promote me into a currently open position, already interviewed me. Problem is, they can’t give it to me until two other qualified candidates apply and they interview them. HR policy is, you have to consider a range of candidates before hiring. So I’m playing the waiting game and two people will waste their time.

[–] haxboar@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Companies that made terrible interview processes, and inaccurate job postings: who-did-this