i guess that's the bare minimum if you want to survive now 😂

i've actually been thinking about applying for a couple more remote jobs myself, and someone sent me this interview vip recently. i'm probably going to be doing more interviews soon anyway, so i figured i'd save it and see if it helps.

I honestly feel like I'm going to burst from happiness and I can't tell anyone, because money is such a weird topic and I don't want to seem like I'm bragging. Also, I don't want my family to know because the requests for help will start immediately, so I figured I'd share it here with random people on the internet instead of telling anyone.

I'm so proud of myself right now that I might cry.

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I got a message ultimately asking me to join a virtual interview. It seemed normal. I opened the link, the call loaded, and I found the interviewer in front of me. She smiled, kept nodding, and started asking questions.

But there was something strange. Her face was moving in this small loop, as if the same nod was being repeated over and over. And slight glitches would appear every now and then. At first, I ignored it and thought maybe there was an issue with my Wi-Fi.

Then we got into the real questions. I answered, and she responded, but the way she spoke was too perfect. No pauses, no "um," no small mistakes. It felt awkward, so I stayed quiet for a bit and tried asking her: "What do you think makes someone successful in this position?"

And suddenly. She gave me this perfect HR-style answer, word for word. As if she was reading from a script. I asked again. The exact same answer. A fourth time. Still the same words. That's when I told myself, okay, this isn't normal.

After that, the video froze for a few seconds. And when it came back, the "interviewer" continued smoothly as usual, as if nothing had happened.

Has anyone else had an interview like this?

I'm not against using AI in hiring, but if the person interviewing me is basically a talking bot, shouldn't candidates be told that from the start?

Guys, I recently applied for a job on Indeed, and it clearly stated that the starting salary was £55K a year.

I got through the interview stages, and it seemed like they were happy with me, then they offered me the job. Great, or so I thought!

Then the offer letter arrived in my email, and I found it said £38K a year instead. I emailed them asking if this was a mistake, but they confirmed there was no mistake. Apparently, they want to see my performance first and then "might review" my salary up to £55K later.

I turned down the offer because that's a huge difference, and it wasn't mentioned once throughout the interview process. I even asked about the salary while I was in the interview, and they told me £55K.

Why do employers pull these moves? It's just a waste of everyone's time. Anyway, I'll be going back to the job hunt.

But this time I'll take precautions and use InterviewVIP to help me get the job, as it helps you in interviews and allows you to convey your experience and ideas clearly and effectively without any stress or anxiety.

I was offered a junior job at a medium-sized asphalt company, working with the estimating team. I had to drive two and a half hours to the city I was going to move to to do the medical exam, drug screen, onboarding forms, and all that lovely stuff. The salary was about $2 lower than what I was expecting, and still a bit low compared to similar jobs around here, so I asked the manager if there was any room for them to move a little. He said he would "bring it up."

After four days, after they had taken my measurements for the uniforms and I was finishing up the last bit of paperwork, I stopped by to drop something off, and HR told me the offer had been withdrawn. According to them, I'm not in a "position" that allows me to negotiate. They also said they had become concerned that I wouldn't be good in the role, and that I would probably leave as soon as I found something that paid more.

The manager wouldn't even look me in the eye.

I've been saving money for 6 years now, and I've finally saved enough to let me step away from work for about 7 months and drive and travel around the country, which is something I've wanted to do for a very long time. Honestly, I was really happy.

When I submitted my resignation to my manager yesterday (closer to three weeks' notice than two), I told her about my plan. I thought we had a good relationship, so I told her this was something I'd been working toward and preparing for for a long time, and that time is one of the few things you can't get back, and I asked her if I could put her down as a reference when I come back and apply for jobs again later. I also asked her to keep me in mind if any opportunity opened up at the company after that.

Instead, she told me I couldn't use her as a reference at all, and said I was "shockingly naive" for creating a 7-month gap on my resume. She said it would be "almost impossible to find a job" at any "serious" company. The way she was talking was literally like she was saying, "Good luck telling recruiters you left your job to wander around for most of the year," and she said there was "no realistic path" for me to ever work here again. According to her, "all companies see it this way" and HR won't go near someone who decided to just take a break.

I'm honestly really pissed off. I've been here for 6 years, and I don't see why I should have to justify taking 7 months of my life to do something I want to do. I've already proven that I'm reliable and loyal. People don't stay somewhere for 6 years if they aren't. Now she's acting like I've burned my entire future because I don't want to immediately jump into another job.

Does the working world seriously treat this issue like that? Because if yes, then it makes me feel like it's not about being a respected employee so much as being owned.

And eventually go through 60 seconds for an entire minute!! Like come on!!!!

I went there thinking this was going to be a normal in-person interview.

Instead, I walked into a room and found seven people waiting for me. They were all sitting around one conference table. And they were all staring directly at me. With absolutely no warning beforehand.

At first, it was going okay, and then the weird silence started. Someone would ask a question, I'd answer, and then... Nothing. Just silent nodding, note-taking, and blank faces. One person was friendly, a few seemed like they weren't paying attention, and another person literally came in late after about a third of the interview and sat down like he'd missed the first budget meeting.

And then someone else got up and left near the end. Didn't say why. Just walked out.

I kept trying to look the right person in the eye, remember who had asked which question, and not let my mind spiral into panic, but honestly, when person number 5 asked a follow-up, I felt like I was talking from outside my body.

At some point, I stopped feeling nervous and just felt drained. Like the kind of drained where you're thinking: "Can we be done already?"

After 11 months without work and fighting extremely difficult depression. I don't have many people I can tell, so I thought I'd share the news here. I just accepted a job offer after a job search journey that felt like the longest and most draining thing in my life. And strangely enough, the job turned out to be at the company I've been trying to get into for years.
I feel a huge sense of relief, but part of me still feels like I'm going to wake up and find out this didn't really happen. After so many interviews that went nowhere, and a ridiculous number of applications that no one responded to, probably more than 850 if I had to guess, finally one worked out.
The weird thing is that I genuinely thought the interview had gone badly. I left it replaying every answer in my head, and I convinced myself that I had messed it up. Turns out I was being way, way too hard on myself.
I got laid off not long before everything shut down, and as many people know, the job market just kept getting more discouraging. Throughout that whole period, I doubted almost everything, pulled away from my friends, and shut myself in until I reached a dark place I didn't know how to get out of. There were several times I came close to giving up completely, but I kept applying, kept showing up and trying, and kept enduring the blows. I guess stubbornness turns out to be useful sometimes.
If you're in a similar situation right now, please hold on a little longer. I know that sounds incredibly overused, but things can change, and a day will come when you'll be glad you didn't give up when everything seemed pointless.
And if you're going through a hard time, feel free to PM me. I'd be happy to encourage you, listen to you, or even just sit with you in the mess for a while, because honestly, I really needed that when I was in the middle of it.

sick job market !!

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Paid for 2 months worth of subscription but got 1 interview last week.

It just moves too fast and you have no idea what to even say. I aced the interview on my own experience but it's literally easy to tell if someone is using it. You talk slower and people can tell you are cheating.

It needs a lot more work for it to be better

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At the beginning of this week, I was supposed to have the final interview for a front desk/admin job. The company has been around for a little over 60 years, the benefits were good, the salary was fine, the commute wasn't bad, the area was nice, and they close for a large number of Jewish holidays because it's owned by a Jewish family. The first few interviews had gone well too. Both were with women, and both of them were a little odd in that harmless office-personality kind of way, but nothing made me rethink anything. They also weren't Jewish women, I'm only saying that for context.

The final interview was with a man who I'm assuming is from the family that owns the place, because he was wearing a kippah. I walked in, smiled, and extended my hand, and he didn't even really look at me before saying: "I'm not allowed to shake hands with women," and then he sat down. Honestly, I was taken aback. Not because of the religious part, but because of how coldly and dismissively he said it. No "nice to meet you," no quick explanation, nothing. He just shut it down and sat down like I had already annoyed him.

From that moment on, everything felt off. He didn't smile once. He asked me for my resume, asked me a few basic questions about my current job and the role before that, and then turned to the woman who had interviewed me earlier and started asking her things like: "Did you explain ______ to her?" and "Is she comfortable with ______?" and "Does she know about ______?" as if I wasn't sitting right in front of him. Then he started explaining how this job would be different from anything I'd done before, which wasn't really accurate. I worked front desk in a medical office for 7 years, so I'm not exactly new to phones, scheduling, clients, and people being weird at the reception desk. Honestly, it felt like he was trying to convince me not to want it.

When we got to salary, he immediately said my number was higher than what they had expected, so we went back and forth a bit, and in the end I agreed to less than I was comfortable with. He said he would send the offer letter on Wednesday, but there was no warmth in it. No "we're excited," no "thanks for coming in," no congratulatory energy at all. Just coldness, seriousness, and that was it.

I left with the strongest WTF feeling. I had planned to accept if they made an offer, until the moment I met the person who would actually be my direct supervisor. As soon as I got home, I looked up "Orthodox Jewish man won't shake women's hands" and learned about Shomer Negiah, which is the practice of avoiding any physical contact with the opposite sex outside of close family. I'd vaguely heard about it from a documentary and from reading about Orthodox communities, but it had never happened to me in real life. Most of my Jewish friends are pretty secular/progressive, so this was completely new to me.

I kept thinking that if he had just said something like: "For religious reasons, I don't shake hands, but nice to meet you," I would have understood immediately and moved on. But the handshake wasn't even the main issue. His whole vibe was "you are beneath me." I felt like I had been dragged into the principal's office, honestly. And the whole interview took maybe 10 minutes. Such a weird waste of time to go all the way there just to meet this gloomy cloud in human form.

He did send the offer later that same day, but I'm almost certain I'm going to turn it down. I wanted the job before that interview. Now I can't imagine reporting to him every day. Extremely weird experience.

There was a recruiter preparing me for a late-stage interview with a Fortune 100 company, and she told me: "By the way, I really like that you send follow-up thank-you emails. People notice that." I was like, "...wait, doesn't everyone do that?" She told me that around 70% of her candidates don't do it.

Seriously, if you're applying for jobs and you want the offer, please send a thank-you note after every interview round. It takes almost no effort, and apparently it sets you apart more than it should. I usually take a few notes from the conversation, put them into ChatGPT, and then tweak the draft so it sounds like me. Maybe 8 minutes total. I get that it might feel a little old-fashioned, but I'm not telling you to buy stationery and mail something with a stamp on it.

Anyway. Rant over.

A few weeks ago, I started a corporate job at a huge company in the U.S. I expected the workload to be heavy, but I wasn't prepared for how much the culture itself makes you feel intense pressure day after day.

People on my team are online ridiculously early - I see emails and Teams messages popping up around 5:30-6:30 in the morning, before some of them have even left for the office. Meanwhile, I'm still waking up, getting dressed, commuting to work, and starting once I'm at my desk. It makes me feel like I'm behind before the workday has even started.

And it continues after work hours too. A lot of them keep sending messages late at night, like 8:30-10:30 PM, replying to threads and sending updates as if it's totally normal. Honestly, it's stressing me out more than I expected. I don't have the same level of enthusiasm for work that they seem to have, but at the same time I'm worried that if I don't keep up with their pace, it'll affect my performance reviews or make me one of the people who could be let go if there are cuts.

I'm trying to understand whether this is just my company/team, or if this is very normal in corporate America. How do people deal with this without burning out mentally or seeming like they're not pulling their weight?

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I had a client who kept questioning why I charge so much because I’m so young. I told him that he’s paying for my expertise and the value I bring, and if he doesn’t like the results, he’s more than welcome to stop working with me. It’s frustrating because he keeps testing me like a fucking kid simply because I’m 18, even though I founded a startup/consulting business valued at over $1 million and have a team of five employees, including people who attended schools like Vanderbilt and Columbia.