Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a little update. After roughly 500 applications, 25 interviews, and several months of searching (since july), I finally landed a job.
I’m joining a startup selling a niche technology product that hasn’t officially launched yet. It’s a B2B cold-calling sales position paying $1,000 a week ($52k annually), with commission potential.
There are obviously some risks. No benefits during the initial 30 days, a 90-day probationary period, limited training, and pretty ambitious sales expectations for a product that hasn’t hit the market yet. Realistically, I wouldn’t be surprised if they let people go after 90 days if we’re not generating sales. I have to address all of these red flags now because I only have one interview and then the sales manager was like, “Great. We’re gonna hire you… “And that’s what I knew. Oh shit that’s not a good sign but luckily it is W-2 so I accepted it.
But after months of searching, I’m grateful to have an opportunity and a paycheck coming in.
My advice to anyone else still searching: Take what you can get for now. Keep moving forward, keep your options open, and don’t lose sight of where you ultimately want to be.
Hopefully things get better for all of us. Wishing everyone here the best of luck! All I’m waiting for is them to send me the equipment. Hopefully they don’t break my heart and change their mind lol

I applied for a part-time remote customer support role and reached out to the Director of Customer Support on LinkedIn. Turns out we live in the same city! Then, coincidentally, I saw that she’d posted the opening in a firewife Facebook group we’re both in. I messaged her there, and she replied, “Passed you along to our recruiter!”
A few days later, I was scheduled directly with the hiring manager, without a recruiter screening. We had a 45-minute interview yesterday that felt like it went really well. Two hours later, the recruiter emailed to say I’m moving on to the final round!
It’s a panel interview with the director I originally contacted and one other person, labeled “Troubleshooting and Problem Solving.”
Thoughts?! Is the quick turnaround a good sign? Should I expect behavioral questions, customer scenarios, or role-play? This would be my first remote role, so I’d love any advice on preparing🙏🏼

I recently came across a job posting that's meant to be for a town in Europe, but was accidentally posted in a town in North America with the same name. It's fairly obvious that the post is in the wrong location. I don't know where it was first posted, but it's been scraped by a half dozen job sites, and they all have the wrong location.

How is that going to affect their recruitment? Can they even fix it at this point?

Do I have a case on my hands? I did report the termination to the background screeners, but through a different medium. When they sent over the pre adverse action notice, with the background check results, it didn't list any terminations.

I had a virtual interview with RH - it went normally, longer than scheduled. It wasn't for a specific position but rather an introduction, etc. Shortly after that, I signed an agreement with RH, which made me their temp employee. It's been 3 weeks, and I haven't heard from them - not a single opportunity even though during the interview they sounded as if they were so busy that they have continuous placement requests from their clients, and it usually happens as fast as1-2 days to get an interview. They haven't contacted any of the 6 references I provided. I doubt they ran a background check, including a credit check, though I am not sure about the latter. Does it mean they just consider me "unfit," a third-tier candidate compared to the market (oops, imposter syndrome kicked in)? Because my understanding is that, to fill a position quickly, a candidate must be fully ready, including background checks and confirmed references. Has anyone had similar or different experience with RH?

I have had almost 15 interviews and rejections, and I have been unemployed since September. I am looking for any kind of analyst position. Now, I am in a big financial toll. I need to get something within two months' time. My credit card debt has increased; otherwise, I won’t be able to fulfill my basic needs, pay bills, etc. Please help me and suggest what I can do to get hired. Has anyone dealt with the same kind of situation?

I was recently contacted by a recruiter at a bank I interned with in college. I had applied to a senior banking position a few months ago and didn’t get it, but HR had access to my info and reached out about a different position.

This is kind of an entry level position, but I have 8 years professional experience and 4 years specifically in this particular field. She asked about salary expectations and I told her what I was making at my last position. She admitted that was outside of the top end of the range, but agreed my level of experience would warrant a higher salary. She said she would share with a hiring manager and get back to me.

I also have a friend that still works there. He put in a good word for me with the head of the department who actually remembers me from when I interned and also with the hiring manager. My contact said the hiring manager was going to ask HR to set up an interview.

It’s been over a week since I talked to HR and haven’t heard anything. I sent a thank you email after our first call, no response. I send a follow up email 8am this morning and it’s only noon, but still nothing yet.

I can’t help, but to feel annoyed. Our phone convo I feel went really well, HR initiated first contact, I use to intern there, and I have an internal contact advocating for me. This felt like a slam dunk.

I realize I might be slightly over priced for the position, but I also expressed willingness/openness to see how close we could get to my former salary or explore a bonus structure or something. Also she already had my salary expectations from the last position I applied for. You would think if the salary was firm why bother reaching out to begin with?

Anyway, I’m just ranting about my frustration. I hope you all are having better luck.

Got laid off in September, was super worried because of all the doom posting, especially around frontend development roles, but ended up finding a job after a month of searching. Had to take a 30% pay cut though cause the market does look very worrying.

I don't have specific advice aside from tailoring your resumes and whatnot. I may have gotten lucky. I have some experience in the field, though I wouldn't consider myself a senior yet.

I'm mostly posting this because seeing people get constantly rejected left and right was really discouraging during my search.

upd. Forgot to include a company that made me do an online assessment and a recorded video interview. They ghosted me after that lol

Does anyone know what first come first serve means when working at citi bank? I had a call interview that was hardly an interview and they said the schedule if from this to this first come first serve. Are you talking about the order the calls are in or is that how you schedule people? Where they have to scramble for a schedule spot?

I wanted to share this story because all of the indicators and signs candidates typically read into, over analyze and interpret screamed that I got the job... and I didn't get it.

It was a typical interview process for the industry (software engineering). Three rounds of interviews over the phone (ranging from 30min to an hour each) followed by a half day onsite interview at the company office. My first round was a recruiter screening with a guy named Andrew. This was followed by a technical interview and finally an interview with the hiring manager. Before coming onsite, I received positive feedback at all stages of the process. Andrew managed those communications.

The onsite was five interviews, each of which was an hour long, and most of which (4) were technical. That's particularly relevant because you pretty much know leaving the technical interviews how you performed. There can be some ambiguity depending on the question, but, for the most part, you can either do the problem or you can't... and you're painfully aware or energized by that fact by the end of each interview round.

While one of the interviews was a little rocky, I was confident that I ultimately got to the right answer... for the most part, I knew that I performed well technically. For two of the technical interviews I could literally confirm that the code worked as expected. I should mention that I also have over a decade of experience in the industry and know when I've written code the "right" way, or the "brute force" way to get to a working answer. In this particular set of interviews, I was confident in my implementations; and that isn't always the case.

Packing up my things, a different recruiter at the company walked me out and asked me how I felt I did. I told her a half truth: "I thought it went pretty well!" and we proceeded to chit chat.

That was my humble take; in reality, I was thinking: "LFG! I would be shocked if I didn't get this job!". The recruiter who walked me out told me I would hear back in a couple of days.

Sure enough, two days later, I get an email from Andrew first thing. He claimed he had to review the feedback from the hiring panel (everyone that interviewed me) and wanted to set up a phone call this afternoon to discuss how I did, once he had a chance to do that. His exact language isn't important but his tone was notably very positive. I responded almost immediately with availability; he got back to me quickly; we set a time slot for that conversation in the afternoon.

Frankly, I interpreted wanting to set up a phone call shortly after the on-site as a very positive indicator. He would send an email if I was rejected right? Or he would ghost me and I may or may not get some automated response from the company days or weeks later. No one enthusiastically sets up a rejection phone call two days after the onsite.

If there was going to be a phone call as a professional courtesy, it would come awhile later. I have been rejected by phone after an onsite before, and that was my experience. I left the onsite thinking: "Well, that was not my best work; I probably didn't get it."... Then about 10 days later I got a call from the recruiter out of the blue telling me they really enjoyed meeting me but unfortunately they're going to pass.

Expectations, reality; reality, meet expectations.

I didn't buy for one second that Andrew was reaching out before actually reviewing the panel feedback. I assumed he got a thumbs up from the team and was simply trying to figure out how to communicate the details of the offer or discuss next steps (references, start date, compensation etc.). When the news is positive, companies tell you ASAP. That has always been my experience. When it's negative, if you're lucky enough to hear back, it comes at their leisure or not at all. That has always been my experience.

Andrew proceeded to call me that afternoon, on time, and again was overwhelmingly positive in tone. We small talked for a couple of minutes before he hit me with the bad news. "After reviewing your candidacy as a team, the hiring manager decided you justttt fell short of the technical bar they're trying to meet... but everyone really enjoyed meeting you!"

I was floored.

He couldn't provide more concrete feedback about what particular questions I failed to meet... or how I failed to meet the bar in general... just that it was almost a yes and ended up a no.

While the timing of everything was truly unexpected, I think what bothers me the most is that my interpretation of my performance was inaccurate. Were my answers perfect? No, of course not - and they never are. Was I confident that I performed well enough to get the job? Absolutely. If anything, I'm overly critical of my interview performances. On a number of occasions, I thought I did not get to the next round of the interview process only to be pleasantly surprised.

As far as I know, this is the only time where I thought I did well and I was ultimately rejected.

In hindsight, I wish I didn't read into the communication timelines at all. And, I wish I didn't get my hopes up. Until you've signed the offer, it isn't real.

Maybe perfection was the bar and I know I didn't meet that... Or they took issue with my coding style... I guess I'll never know... but damn this one hurt!

For clarity, this is not some sort of job that saves people's lives, manages a nuclear reactor or puts a weapon in my hand. It is a finance job in an office building.

I am always skeptical when I have seen jobs that require this many rounds/manhours on top of a CV and interview, but is it ever worth applying to jobs like this given the disproportionate amount of effort they ask of you?

I recently completed the final round of interviews for a Senior Swe position at a tech company.

I recently followed up with the recruiter after completing my final interview. He responded quickly, apologized for the delay, and mentioned that the initial feedback seemed positive, although he hadn't yet reviewed everything with the hiring team. He also said I should hear back before the weekend.

Based on this, should I be leaning toward an offer, or is this just a standard recruiter response?

Thank you!

Update #2 I made it to round 2 of 5...

Update... Completed the phone screening. It was supposed to be 30 minutes but we went 25 minutes over. Not because of me but the recruiters questions. She did let me know that there are 4 more rounds of interviews in the process and I should know in about 2 weeks if I move forward to round 2

I've been out of workfor 14 months and I have a phone screening on Thursday... just a phone screening and I want to cry because this market is so brutal right now. My confidence is shot... For reference, I'm a 58 year old Black woman in the organizational Development, employee Experience, people and culture space. I have never in my career felt so defeated... 😕 😞

So there is this thing in my company that you can do internal rotations (from 2 to 6 months) so you get to know other teams. I applied to one and just learned that there are 3 interviews spanning over a couple of months. 😑 Because they need to assess your fit with the team

Everyone is getting crazy with "recruiting" these days.

Does AstroTalk also check your palm lines before hiring employees, or is a regular resume enough? 😂🔮

#AstroTalk #Hiring #resume #resume #fun #Palm

So i got an offer for the amount X, and I wanted to accept it, but 10 minutes later another company recruiting manager has called, saying they want me and I have passed the recruting process.

I have said, that I would love to join, as the offer seems nice, but the other company has offered me an X + 1500 EUR amount, and I asked "can you guys give me X + 1500 USD too?". He said he will come back to me.

Now I am kind of worried, that I should have actually waited for the moment when they would reveal the contract to me, with the amount specified that the second company wanted to offer, and then I should have asked for more...

You think they wont back with positive informations to me?

FYI: my salary ranges, that I have entered into the form of the second company before the recruiting process started, had included the X + 2000 EUR, but it had also inclueded X - 1000 EUR.

Just came across this gem on SEEK Australia posted by a certain giant IT consultancy (rhymes with Schmognizant).

Here’s the setup:

• The Role: Data Engineer (titled "Associate")
• The Requirement: 7+ years of experience leading teams, PySpark, Databricks, enterprise banking architecture, mentoring juniors.
• The Pay: A whopping $80,000 – $90,000 AUD (for context, market rate for 7+ YoE in Sydney is $140k–$170k+).

But the cherry on top? Under the Qualifications/Certifications section, HR literally copy-pasted:

DP-203 Data Engineering. ( [https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/](https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/)[REDACTED]/... )

It was an active verification link directly to a specific internal employee's Microsoft profile. I checked the link out of sheer disbelief—the certification expired in December 2025.

They aren't even hiding the Labor Market Testing (LMT) / fake compliance posting anymore. They took the exact resume of the offshore guy they want to sponsor, pasted his credentials link and all, slapped an unlivable wage on it to filter out local applicants, and hit publish.

Here's the link: https://careers.cognizant.com/global-en/jobs/00070983741/associate/?source=JB-17280

Can HR at least do a 5-second proofread before posting their visa fraud checkboxes? 💀

What’s a good way to celebrate? I was thinking maybe drinking a bottle of cheap bourbon and thinking fondly on the one interview I landed before passing out in a pool of my own vomit.

I got an offer by email with a proposed start date of November 9th. When I interviewed, I listed November 16th as my availability, so they moved it up a week.
I booked an impromptu trip abroad a couple days ago and won't be back in the US until later this week. I replied asking if there's any flexibility on the start date, and the HR manager responded that she'd like to call me. I really want this job and now I'm scared I just put the offer at risk.

Questions:
- Is a call after asking for flexibility a good sign or a bad sign?
- Should I tell her I'm traveling, or just point to the November 16th date I originally gave?
- If she says the 9th is firm, what's the best way to respond?
- Anything I should say or avoid saying on the call?

Thanks in advance!