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I once had 8 interviews and presumably lost on the last one because the interviewer was wrong on the technical interview. I tried explaining confidently and in a friendly way how my answer was correct but they weren't having it.

It was a fairly basic sophomore in college topic in my field. They basically applied a rule of thumb rather than thinking about the specifics of their question.

The process is... questionable. Big part of why they want a big reserve army of labor. That wouldn't fly if they were hard up for labor.

I remember applying for a kitchen position and getting an interview on my birthday. Had to request off of work. Walked in and dozens of other people waiting. Get called back and talk to the hiring manager who sees that it's my birthday and seems surprised, and I guess has pity on me and tells me that they aren't actually hiring, they're just trying to see how many people are interested. Just straight up wasting all of these desperate people's time.

Had another interview for a back of house position at a place that told me to show up between 2-2:15. When I got there at 1:45 the place was locked and no one was there. Kept trying for another 30-45 minutes until I gave up. No one answered the phone, no cars there, nothing. Got in touch with the hiring manager later on who told me he forgot he scheduled my interview and to try again. I couldn't afford to take off work again for another interview.

Years later when I got into the tech field, got an interview for a position for some kind of web developer for a hospital/healthcare agency based out of Arizona. It was a group interview with about 6 other people. At the beginning of the interview the hiring manager stated that "I already know who I'm probably hiring. Mike was recommended by my manager so he's probably got the job but since you're all here I'll go ahead with the interview".

I think I've worked every shit job this dystopian country has to offer. My only options as a kid were the military or overdosing, and I somehow made it out and actually have a decent job today.

I came of age during the worst of a recession, not the COVID one, and even fast food jobs were only taking applicants with prior experience. To this day, I've been unable to get a job that requires an interview, despite having what I consider adequate interpersonal skills and a college education. At this point, even trying to update my resume gives me panic attacks, I can literally feel my respiration increasing writing this. My only job that wasn't gig work or sharing someone else's identity to cowork a remote job was tutoring at a community college and I loved it! But I got it by sitting next to a person at a wedding, it was a hour commute so I had to crash on a friends couch for my 3 work days (cause I only got 20 hours a week), and it paid minimum wage for me to teach calculus (among other subjects).

America delenda est.

I feel you I'm lucky enough to get an interview, it's just ghosting or rejection emails. Posting on LinkedIn is an exercise in humiliation but it's supposed to get eyes on me.

I just went through 3 rounds of interviews with a company over the last month, for what was a very promising position. They told me they decided not to hire anybody for it. I’ve only had 1 successful job interview since graduating university, where I still work, but I’ve sent out literally thousands of applications, never slowing down. I have credentials, I have experience, I have personal projects; doesn’t matter. I swear half of these tech interviews are to get you to debug some real problem they have for free under the guise of a technical interview, and the other half just want to torture us for fun.

unfortunately that's been job hunting for decades

I looked it up on Google Maps and that store didn't even exist

I wouldn't rely on that. The map is not the land. This was a truism even before google became a bullshitting machine.

Try not to take it personally. Rejection stings (I was in that boat for months before last week) but it’s not as though someone is actually evaluating you personally and then rejecting you.

It is hell

I've been desperately trying to find another data annotation/AI training remote job after being booted from the project I was working on at Outlier. Shit sucks.

I dunno if it is a still a thing but I heard some videos where people were talking about how companies are just flying jobs to make work and possibly try tonget obscure tax benefits about it.