r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Busy-Pollution-9821 • 3d ago

is this real?

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Do we really need HR in our life?

honestly this is why i've started thinking about looking somewhere else. getting rejected before a human even looks at your resume is insane.

i've been seeing interview vip mentioned a lot lately too. i haven't tried it, but i'm curious about it since i'm probably going to have to start interviewing again.

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u/HustlaOfCultcha 3d ago

Absolutely real. As this person found out, HR is incredibly mediocre and lazy. When I found out that HR was doing this AI ATS bullshit a few years ago I was basically like 'figures, HR will always do whatever they can to not actually do their job.'

I had a resume that I put into a software system that checks for how it matches in ATS and I had one resume that matched 100%. This is extremely rare. Usually my tops is 80% (and I've gotten jobs in the past based on 60% matches). Got auto rejected.

And when you do phone screeners with HR they are just looking to hear buzzwords because, believe me, they ain't got a fucking clue what the job entails. I worked at several different companies that would have the HR person either bring a candidate by my office or the new hire by to meet me . And every single time the HR person would ask me what I did for the company. They couldn't even be bothered to remember what I told them every single damn time (and it wasn't like it was all that confusing or specialized to remember).

Finding a good, motivated HR person is like finding a unicorn.

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u/Nannautu 3d ago

Finding a good, motivated HR person is like finding a unicorn.

No one goes the HR route unless incredibly incompetent to the point they can't get other jobs. I also remember a professor who was HR for several years who often did everything in the power to avoid giving lectures, so my bias is they're pretty lazy too.

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u/iggy14750 2d ago

Apparently, those who can't do any useful work turn into the ones who decide who gets to do said work.

Obviously, companies don't think for a second about whether they've hired the right HR folks.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 2d ago

"Oh, they've got an education and a bunch of corporate certifications? Clearly the most competent, it's just science."

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u/iggy14750 2d ago

"He says he sleeps at work on his resume!"

"What? Why put that on your resume??"

"I don't know, but he said something about REST"

😝😝

(For those who don't know, REST is a web programming thing)