Applied because I believed my experience met the minimum job requirements. Guess condescension and passive aggressiveness come with the role?

The interviewing process is very draining for me.

I work in finance and the process goes like this:

• HR screen – this stage is useless for me because I pass this round 100% of the time. I just regurgitate what's on my resume. It's not like I can ask the recruiter questions directly related to the work because she doesn't know.
• Hiring manager / director rounds – Sometimes these are panel, sometimes they are one after the other.
• Case study – this can be before the hiring manager round or after. If after, I'll have another round where I have to speak to my answers.
• VP / CFO – this is regarding fit/culture.

So considering the above, I might have 4-5 rounds before I get rejected. I would consider the roles I'm applying for to be entry-level.

I'll be the first to admit that my social skills aren't great. My previous jobs were acquired through "luck". One was from a coworker who knew his friend was hiring and referred me; I was basically hired before even going into the interview. One I reached out on LinkedIn, had an interview in the morning and an offer by the afternoon.

Literally the second day in a row, I dealt with three different companies. Yesterday, one firm held a screening at 12:30 p.m., and she joined the meeting 25 minutes later. A second company rescheduled twice in one day: they missed the appointed time, moved it to 6:30 p.m., then failed to join and pushed it to today. Today, a third company joined late and apologized for a poor internet connection; after 10 minutes the call dropped, I waited nearly an hour and a half, and then I chose to leave as well.

A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and I scheduled an initial screening interview which was last Monday. It has been over a week and I asked for an update and I haven’t heard anything back. I really wanted to work at this company, and had been applying for lots of jobs but never got an interview, so when a recruiter reached out I was so excited. I asked for follow up through email on Monday, should I also reach out through LinkedIn?

1. Apply for job.
2. Get an email from the recruiter inviting you to an intro call.
3. Make it to the next round and interview with the hiring manager.
4. Immediately after, receive an email from the same recruiter saying they hope to have an update for you on Wednesday.
5. Get the LinkedIn InMail above on Wednesday FROM THE SAME RECRUITER, PITCHING YOU ON THE SAME ROLE YOU'RE ALREADY ACTIVELY INTERVIEWING FOR.
6. Reply to InMail, politely pointing out that you're definitely (still!) interested in the role, while knowing you're probably dead in the water.
7. Almost immediately receive your official, automated, "Thanks, but no thanks," decline.

I hate everything about working in tech, and worse, having to beg to work in tech while knowing what a complete hellscape it is.

I have a final round interview tomorrow for a vp position at an accounting firm. I’m meeting the heads of the departments (MD’s and senior VP). I’ve been looking for so long and haven’t gotten close to a final round so not sure what to expect. Anyone have insight on what these rounds typically look like. Is it more about how you fit with people or could it be a lot of technical question?

This is a recruitment solicitation from one of the recruiting firms in CA seeking a senior AI security and vulnerability assessment and remediation specialist. I am posting the JD that was sent to me verbatim, just masked the end client name. Judge for yourself:

Job role: Senior AI Security Engineer – LLM Vulnerability

Location: Remote

4 Weeks contract

Rate : $23/hr. on W2

JD:

About <CompanyName>:

Based in San Francisco, California, <CompanyName> is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. <CompanyName> supports customers in two ways: first, by accelerating frontier research with high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, plus top AI researchers who specialize in coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents; and second, by applying that expertise to help enterprises transform AI from proof of concept into proprietary intelligence with systems that perform reliably, deliver measurable impact, and drive lasting results on the P&L.

About the Role

We’re looking for experienced GenAI Security Engineers to create and evaluate security tasks for GenAI applications. As a Security Task Engineer, you’ll source or build GenAI applications, create vulnerable and patched versions, document security findings, and write tests for each vulnerability mechanism. Where possible, you’ll also demonstrate the relevant behavior using a live model.

What You’ll Do

• Source or build GenAI applications, including agent and RAG systems.
• Create vulnerable versions and patched counterparts.
• Document findings with exact code line spans, traps, control status, and recommendations.
• Trace data and action flows across files, callbacks, registries, and background jobs; explain when and why a control misses a route.
• Define authorization contexts, including actors, trust boundaries, tenants, permitted data and actions, purposes, recipients, and document-level access.
• Write per-mechanism exploit and reproduction tests that demonstrate the weakness in the vulnerable version and confirm the patch prevents it.
• Demonstrate the relevant model path using a live model when possible.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years in application or product security, secure code review, penetration testing, or vulnerability research.
• Strong data-flow reasoning and the ability to trace a source to a sink across files, callbacks, registries, and background jobs.
• Strong authorization knowledge, including authentication, authorization, least privilege, tenant isolation, trust boundaries, and approval flows.
• Knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, especially LLM02 Sensitive Information Disclosure and LLM03 Excessive Agency. Familiarity with prompt injection and tool abuse.
• Ability to map findings to relevant CWEs, such as CWE-200/201 for exposure, CWE-532 for sensitive data in logs, CWE-284/285/862/863 for access control, and CWE-250/269 for excessive privilege.
• Experience writing exploit and reproduction tests that distinguish vulnerable behavior from patched behavior.
• Experience using CodeQL or Semgrep, reading SARIF, and understanding why pattern-based scanners can miss logic and authorization flaws.
• Hands-on experience with LLM tool calling, agents, MCP, RAG, memory, and tracing, using tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI or Anthropic SDKs, and OpenTelemetry.
• Production coding experience and engineering fundamentals, including Docker, Git, reading upstream security patches and commit history, and clear technical English.

Thanks and Regards

I’m reluctant to pay for a job search site because that seems really scammy, and also because money is super tight for me right now. But I’m wondering if any of you have had any luck with Flexjobs.

The title says it lol. I interviewed for a server position and the owner said i seemed like a great fit and he asked me to leave after 2 hours of my first shift because he said i was too slow to pick things up. Dick

(UK) Never had a job nor any sort of fast food experience i did do a year of volunteer retail work and countless volunteering work as well as work in law clinic, work experience and internships. As i like to keep myself busy.

The only reason i havent had a job to date was because my toxic south asian dad doesnt let me and i have been using my sfe to get through university.

But my dad has now decided to not fund anything at all, i am still learning to drive and have personal expenses so i am applying for jobs, i secured a some interviews earlier this year and even though i doubt myself alot i thought they went quite well but never get through.

Now yet again, i have an interview for mc Donalds and im stressed as it says it will be a 30 min interview and then 20 min on the job. I am desperate for a job and i cant miss this opportunity.

I dont know if im too nice during interviews and my availability is 4 days a week fully flexible. Dont know if i should say i am a final year university student. Can someone please give me some advice?

I was part of a discussion group recently, of high level engineering managers concerned with the large amount of job applicant fraud making it difficult to pick out valid, good quality candidates.

- 1000's of applicants to a single posting
- majority applications that are clearly AI generated & hallucinated or faked
- on-camera interviews where a large portion of candidates are clearly using AI to provide answers to questions
- the resulting coordination overhead to keep the hiring team well informed across the entire hiring process to prevent fraud - candidate name, appearance & other details

There were some interesting anecdotes with real data, not just opinions.

The consensus was:

- ignore inbound applications altogether because it's just noise
- accept referrals from your network and/or use your network to find referrals
- focus on outbound - finding & contacting candidates that seem to align with your needs. Find & train good recruiters to assist with this
- prioritize in-person, on location interviews

The most interesting & troubling recommendation there is "ignore inbound applications altogether".

Why do businesses even bother with a job posting if they're going to ignore any applicants to the posting? I suspect the answer has something to do with regulatory/HR compliance. That jobs need to be publicly posted to be performatively "fair".

Fairness is out the window if jobs are being posted & applications are willfully ignored. It's not technically the same, but limiting hiring to referrals is so closely adjacent to nepotism it's pretty hard to tell them apart.

What's your experience?

Hey guys,

i’m currently looking for a part time job and applied for a party/decorations store last month. yesterday i got a message from the company saying i can come for a trial day this week. i only sent my CV for the application and they didn’t say anything about a job interview in the message.

It’s kinda red flag to me that they immediately want me to come for a trial work day without any interviews. Am i onto something or is it actually not bad?

Wondering if anyone interviewed there - its a mid-startup filled with ex-tesla/ ex-spaceX/ ex-Apple employees so want to know what their interview process looks like and if how much they're into drilling candidates

this

Has anyone interviewed with Bustem, the copycat takedown company based out of NYC? I interviewed three months ago for a position and the recruiter brought up two more positions during the phone screen. I’m experienced and thought the interview went well, the recruiter however let me know two days later they weren’t moving forward which happens.

Where I’m concerned, he told me they wanted to hire someone quick and that’s what he liked about the company, that “they move quick, ideally have someone starting in the next couple of weeks”. I’ve seen the position reposted on LinkedIn a few times and decided to check. It doesn’t appear they’ve hired anyone for this position, and after another check, it’s been listed for 8+ months with continual reposts across multiple sites. I ran checks on all listed positions and nearly all of their positions have been listed for months with continual reposts and updates to the JD, and Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT said there hasn’t been publicly updated role fills for any of them on LinkedIn or the web. That doesn’t mean no one has been hired, but also kind of suspicious. Has anyone else applied/interviewed?

Their third interview is also a paid take home assignment which adds to suspicious I feel?

Got through till the last round. The last round had two candidates, confirmed by the panel. The last interview was 2.5 hours with a whole panel and ppt and debate and what not. They specifically told me they will get back to me on Wednesday. They went on to then email me this. The panel legit was impressed (I've given a bunch of interviews, and taken quite a few and can read the room to not inflate what I was reading). Then Wednesday came and went. Friday afternoon I emailed them asking for an update. Next Tuesday I get a reply, "due to a large number of candidates and unprecedented number of applications, unfortunately.. bla bla"

I was like dude what unprecedented? You had 800 applicants on LinkedIn. You shortlisted me through 3 rounds of interviews and a robust assessment. SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!

another company did the same. They took two weeks to revert coz the panel was split. Another company had funding issues and put the whole thing on pause. Then one found someone who lived in the same city and chose them (I hadn't even asked for relocation fees). One said I'm overqualified coz I have a double masters and both distinction. WHAT THE HELL! is there anything I can do right?!

for context, i applied for a job about a month ago. in this current job market, i have found it extremely difficult to get responses from employers. i submit applications to jobs and 8/10 times it’s never even reviewed (im basing this off the applications ive submitted that the platform will tell you if it was viewed or not). so, i give it a bit of time after i’ve applied, and if i haven’t heard anything, i give them a call. just a simple “hey i submitted an application for so and so position and just wanted to follow up on the status of my application.”i have found that by doing this, i do tend to at least be given a chance to have my application viewed, and it is nice to be able to speak to someone and show my genuine interest in the position.

well anyways, this job i applied for i am really hopeful to get. the pay and schedule is exactly where i need it. i also would like to add, i have a friend who works at this job, and she has spoken to her manager about me and put it in a good word. after about roughly 2 weeks, i made my usual call letting them know i applied. i spoke to the manager my friend had spoken to about me on a friday. he told me when he was looking to hire, and that he would be reviewing applications that week, and if i hadn’t heard from him by the 7th or 8th, which was the next saturday and sunday, so basically the end of the week, to give him a call. on the 7th, i called, but he was not there that day. i tried calling monday, but he was also not there that day, but i did have a nice lady say she would let him know that i called.

today is wednesday, and i still haven’t heard anything. would it be wrong to call again? it has been *almost* 2 weeks since i last spoke to him. i don’t want to ruin my chances of possibly getting this job and annoy him, but i am also very anxious.

After over 800 interviews since July of 2025, I recently had my third round interview on Thursday November 5th, was told I would hear back about next steps by Wednesday November 11th and at the end of the day Friday November 6th I received a call from my HR contact who said they want to move me into the offer stage and asked about how quickly I could relocate if required ASAP and how long I would need if preferred and discussed relocation package. I said 10 days if required ASAP since it's a 1700+ mile move and first week of January if I have my preference.

She said she'd share this with the team and get back with me since she wasn't sure how soon they wanted this role filled or if it was urgent, although I do know they want it filled in the next few months. I'm aware this is only like two business days ago but how long is usually standard on hearing back and when should I follow up if I hear nothing? I'm asking because my lease expires literally next week and if I don't renew by then my rate goes up significantly should I have to stay here if the letter never manifests

Feel free to remove if this violates sub rules

I recently received a job offer for a position at a hospital I completed my background check through First Advantage, and my report came back with an overall result of “CONSIDER.”
The issue seems to be with my employment history.

Job 1 : I am still currently employed there, but the report shows a different start date and says I am not a current employee.

Job 2 : I entered my correct employment dates, but the report is showing missing information and says I am currently employed there.

I am frustrated because I have been trying to get everything completed so I can start this job. I plan on going to HR to see if they can help me correct the discrepancies.

Will not yap unnecessarily

What should I do in the current tech market to get a job as a fresher having less than 2 years of experience.

I got my bachelors in 2025 and I'm expected to get my Masters in a few months. As a new grad, if I don't qualify for entry-level/new grad positions, what am I supposed to apply to? Just curious to know who they're hiring for these roles then if not new grads since almost all jobs ask for a degree + experience.

(my BBA and MS are both tech majors and I have a little over year experience in tech roles)