A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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Had an interview at a company. They asked me to do a coding challenge. Solve it without AI. The task was written in AI and requirements all over the place. Took me 6hrs+. I sent it and they wanted to see me in person. Took half a day off to make to the interview. Meeting went well. They call me and tell me my assignment was not what they expected.
There should be a hefty fine for this behavoiur.
What did they mean by not what they expected? Like they didn't expect you to solve it, or didn't expect the AI to give you an assignment?
Maybe after the second round?
This sounds viable until you consider what the application process will devolve into.
The initial screening process will become even more annoying which will cause more bot applications and in return it will get even more annoying.
We have a massive government mandate that requires that you apply for a large number of jobs in order to qualify for unemployment benefits.
We have job agencies who are incentivised to place candidates, any candidates, with no penalties for incorrect placement.
We have unpaid internships that normalise free work for hire in the most susceptible population, job entrants.
We have automated processes run by HR to weed out unsuitable applicants before the actual employer sees anything.
We have technically unqualified HR departments demanding qualifications for things that don't exist without any controls by the actual employer.
This idea won't address any of this, and I think it will make things worse.
E: spelling
Love it.
Unfortunately, then there would be professional candidates who just never accept a job.
There’s no way that would be a viable career.
Your argument sounds similar to anti-welfare arguments. Sure, some people may abuse the system, but it wouldn’t pay that well, and the positives to society would greatly outweigh any abuse.
I agree with all of that actually. I'm just used to trying to find the failure mode of anything that sounds good lately.
Yeah if it could be enforced I think it might be viable.
Exactly, for every one person who abuses the rule to get 10 hours of labor paid to them in exchange for doing no work, you'll have 999 people that are actually using the system as intended.
Are you really the kind of person that'll fuck over 999 people just to make sure that one person doesn't get ahead in a sneaky way?
Not to mention, some companies right now are abusing interview candidates to get free work with "trial project" type assignments, or "How would you fix this problem, if you were hired?" type of free consultations. If some candidates abused the companies in return, I'd call that fair play.
But think of the shareholders. Who's helping them out?
Then there would be professional candidates who ~~just never accept a job~~ start getting blacklisted really quickly from a means of income that's vastly more difficult, less fulfilling, less stable, and less efficient than just having a stable job.*
FTFY
Ah, so you are thinking there would be a centralized system to track applicants* (perhaps the same one that handles payment) - this sounds feasible, the infrastructure mostly already exists (in the US) in state unemployment departments.
*(without it centralized, each company only sees a person once and doesn't know if they accepted another offer or whatnot)
The rest of your points are also good, I don't actually think it would be a big issue, I just had the knee jerk reaction to think about how any good idea would fail these days.
You could probably do a professional interviewer job for something like restaurant work in a major metropolitan area (but restaurants probably won’t do this and would just start hiring through referral or from resumes instead), but most industries are small enough that companies would talk. I haven’t worked in my previous field for five years, but checking now, I still know people at all of the major companies for it. If I were to apply at any of them, someone would see that I’d worked at companies X and Y, then they’d ask all of the people at their company who’d previously worked at company X or Y, to see if anyone knew me. If I were to try to be a vocational applicant like this, I’d develop a reputation pretty quickly.
Companies would just get even more suspicious about long resume gaps or people trying out a new field.
Ok, the money goes to a local college, using companies inability to find candidate to fund producing better candidates seems fitting.
Maybe calculated as 1.5 days labor for the posted salary or median compensation for that job, whichever is greater.
It should be outlawed to have more than two interview round. Just fuck off with that dehumanizing ratrace bullshit
Companies will hire internally
That's not a bad result either. But if they have any growth they will need to hire externally
Ok? They do that anyway. Sometimes people leave and they have to hire externally.
Thats not really a bad thing unless I'm missing something. My experience is that companies would rather never promote existing employees which has lead to people having to job hop to get ahead.
My older family members are so confused and judgemental about me working for 4+ companies in my 7 year career but I'd still be paid as if I was "entry level" if I stuck around at them
The main downside is they often do that so they don't have to pay as much as they would to attract an external candidate.
I made it from customer service rep to senior admin level IT in my first stop on my career, and I was getting paid 60% less than market average. Good thing I was treating it like an internship.
As someone who's gotten rejected after multiple technical rounds. Yeah there definitely should be some compensation for anything close to real work. BUT as someone who has both been hiring and looking lately the far bigger issue ATM is application volume. There's currently no real way to solve the massive bot problem
i used to be an assistant in corporate hr in the mid 1990s.. we had locations in several dozen states plus mexico, but all of hr was in the main office. we'd fly candidates in, put 'em up in a hotel, provide transportation to and from airports and interviews, as well as a generous per diem for meals. they 'made' more in a day off that (even factoring-in a reasonable meal budget) than i made in a week.
Maybe as a compromise, the first interview (up to 1 hour) can be free, but if the interview goes for more than 1 hour or if there's more than one interview, it has to be paid.