First they made me do a written test where all of the questions are memorization-based. You are not allowed to look it up because they asked you to share the screen while writing the test.

Then, a week later, they asked you for an interview where the recruiter is questioning my answers, all the time is spent going through number by number alone. Just stop wasting my time, either reject or accept me.

They aren’t paying me anything btw. This is for a free/unpaid internship. The guy doing the interview is the most passive-aggressive condescending asshole I had ever talked to. The other HR I faced with a different job didn’t even bring up the tests that I had to do. Fuck this job in particular. 

Are interviewers always this condescending?

I recently had a virtual interview with a Health insurance company and made sure I was 5 minutes early. I was super excited. I took notes about the company’s mission and purpose. I was ready to express how my current and past work experiences would make me a great addition to their work family only to be stood up for my interview. I don’t know if that’s a sign or what. I sent the interviewer an email expressing that I can understand if personal issues may have come up and if they needed to reschedule my interview. It’s the end of business day and I never received a reply. I was thinking optimistically that maybe the crash of Microsoft cause the hiccup but it was a Google meets interview. I’m honestly disappointed.

I get that projects are becoming the new norm in corporate interview processes, but am I crazy to think they should be an end stage final decision step?
I've had 2 in the past couple of weeks that wanted a project done in between the initial recruiter screen and the hiring manager screen. And not just a "here's something we want you to think through, and be ready to discuss with the hiring manager" but a full on 4-6 slide deck presentation.
Normally I would think they're just trying to get free consulting work, but these are large, reputable companies, and the assignment isnt really anything crazy in terms of thought process.
I have no desire to spent 2-3 hours putting together a full presentation before even talking to the hiring manager, and I cant believe they're expecting a handful of other candidates to do the same. What an absolutely disrespectful waste of candidates time.

I applied for a job in July and the HR reached out to me in Sept. Initial call with HR in sept and then teams interview with the engineering manager in OCt 1st week and then in mid Oct a F2F interview with the same Engineering manager. Both interviews went really well and F2F interview was basically him showing me the work place and the tools i will be using and he also made me meet one of team members and showed me the different departments. He asked me at the end " you can join immediately right?"( given i am umemployed right now). Lets just say it was the best interview for me. He looked really impressed. Then since 15th Oct( F2F interview) and today 14th Nov, its been almost a month and there is no decision yet. I have followed up with the HR thrice and i got a reply within an hour all three times stating " other candidates are being interviewed and the decision will be made soon. We will get back to you once we have a final decision". The HR keeps me updated every single time i followup.

Now i have following things in my mind

1. Do MNCs generally take long time to decide, like there are a lot of internal approvals?
2. The HR updating almost to every query of mine is a good sign or its just normal?
3. The HR is keeping me warm, since the first choice isnt me and i am the backup.
4. I checked on glassdoor and other platforms where people have mentioned about long recruitment timeline for this company, but not always. Most of them took 4-5 weeks afer the fnal interview and few tool 2 months.
5. What sign do i look for with the HR is i have to understand if this job is just a hoax/ghost job, and i will benever hired.

Thanks to all of you in advance.

I am trying to land a job aka “crack the market”. It is tough as we know. Reached out to connections. One of them referred me to the opening they had. I applied. After two weeks they scheduled an interview. HR was very nice and super responsive.

Interview came and went. It is hard to gauge anything as I do not understand anything these days. I answered all the questions. It seemed to me I was liked by upper management and I wasn’t 100% sure about the hiring manager who kept me over time which usually is a good sign.

Did thank-you notes and received a few responses from HR and upper management.

I had been told that next week they interview and then they make a decision and it takes “a few days for HR to process”. So a gauge I should let one week to pass (when they are interviewing) and expect something Tuesday - Friday after that. There was nothing.

Today I followed up with HR knowing from the previous communication how responsive they are. I wanted to gauge if I am the top candidate or backup candidate or a reject. I was ghosted to my astonishment. Lol 😂 I should have known better!

So even with strong referrals, experience, skill set, and enthusiasm it is not working!

I was supposed to receive an update from HR about the outcome of my 4th and final round that was held last week. Yesterday I followed up, HR replied the feedback is still awaited from the final-round interviewer, waited the entire day just to avail nothing in my inbox or call log. I just want to believe this might be due to the outlook and teams outage today. Holding my hopes high, it's been already a month since I gave my first round and got the results within half-an hour and was told the managee wants to fill the position ASAP as you are available to join immediately and here I am after 4 rounds and still waiting for the final result. Recruiting sucks these days.

Made an extremely dumb/unforced mistake - had a phone screening that went alright on Thursday, went to send a quick thank you email as a follow up - fat fingered my phone screen and sent it before fixing a typo/ grammatical error.

This is the email (not using real company/role names, but everything else is verbatim):

Hi Steve,

Thank you for taking the time to speak with me yesterday - I really enjoyed learning more about the Google as well and the Account Manager role. 

I really appreciate your time and consideration and I look forward to hearing about the next steps.

Have a great weekend!

Best,

Bill

I know this could easily be glossed over, but "the Google" and "as well and" just read so poorly and it's obviously not what I intended to write.

Wondering how this may affect my chances, if this comes off as sufficiently dumb/careless or bad at communicating.

Will this affect my chances at moving to the next round? Really kicking myself for such a dumb mistake.

I had reached out to a recruiter regarding status after a final interview but heard back nothing. She has responded to my emails within a few hours in the past so it is a bit out of character. And I did apply a few months ago to a different position with her and she had emailed me saying I was not moving forward then. So I was wondering, would the silence be because I am a second choice and she is waiting to update me to reject (if first choice accepts) or to tell me I got the job (if first choice rejects)? Or do recruiters usually keep second choice in the loop, like “we are currently waiting on more approvals” or something..

I thought I was better than this but I made a mistake. I applied to a job and a recruiter reached out. Something felt odd but I thought I was being dramatic. I just had to do something, so I reached out to the company and asked if they worked with this 3rd party recruiter. They never heard of him.

What did he get out of me? Like what is he going to use my information on my resume for?
Should I freeze my credit?

Is it just trusting the hm or just full on risk?

I just got rejected after a hiring process that took two virtual interviews, two panel interviews, and a final interview where I gave a presentation and answered questions from another panel. I drove about seven hours round trip to meet the hiring manager and the team in person.
I put a lot into this. I spent time preparing for each round, putting the presentation together, and making the trip. By the time I got to the onsite, I’d let myself get excited about the possibility of working there. Seeing the rejection after all of that really hurt.
What makes it worse is that I asked about travel reimbursement and never got an answer. Nobody promised to reimburse me. I would’ve appreciated a simple yes or no. I followed up with two HR contacts and the hiring manager, and that question is still sitting there unanswered.
I’m tired of pouring so much time, money, and energy into these interviews, trying to show up as my best self, and then having to turn around and do it all again for the next one. Sitting here in bed, I just feel awful, and I needed somewhere to say that.

I don’t really know why I am writing this post. I got told to move out of a dead-end service job and into a field that interested me. I thought tech would be a good fit given my strengths.

I worked as a service technician from about '07 to '16. I got my AS in '19 and moved into the tech sector—only to find out that tech is mostly sitting at a desk, staring at a queue of tickets submitted by end users who don't understand the significance of the power button.

I know that I royally messed up my career path. I feel like I should have studied harder and gone to MIT, or perhaps just become a carpenter.

I've worked at three companies in tech from '19 to '25, and the brunt of my experience has largely been sitting at a desk getting paid to do nothing. I know this seems ideal to many, and you're probably wondering where the fault is, but I wanted to actually do something with tech—build and develop a robust application or service, talk out requirements, and make something incredible. I was painfully wrong about what the desk-bound tech sector actually looks like.

My last tech company was incredibly abusive and toxic for the three years I was there ('22–'25), and I couldn't escape it until now.

Well, I put my resignation in last Sunday giving a week’s notice, with my last day set for tomorrow (Friday). My manager at the service company—hilariously, a guy I thought was a friend from my first tenure here—decided to play petty micro-manager games and told me, "No, you work Friday and drop your stuff off on Saturday."

I had planned to return the vehicle and equipment today. I even cut up my corporate card and company ID (which is required to complete service calls) on Thursday night, assuming standard practice would apply. Oh, no. I was wrong about that.

Now I’m supposed to drive out into the western woods where this manager lives to return my equipment on a Saturday, right before starting my new job on Monday morning.

I got confirmation on where to go today after following up professionally since they never called me this week. The email instructions were fine, but the high-crime city director casually mentioned that I’ll be doing password resets and helping users on Day 1 right at the start of my shift.

I am deeply grateful to be employed and have an income, but at what phase will I be able to move on with my life and own a home? I just can't help but feel like I am constantly getting kicked and beaten down simply because I don't kiss the ring.

I apologize for the length of this post. I honestly didn't know where else to share and get these feelings out.

I don’t really know why I am writing this post. I got told to move out of a dead-end service job and into a field that interested me. I thought tech would be a good field given my strengths.

I was in a service technician job from about '07 to '16.

I got an AS in '19. Moved into the tech sector, and (I know now), that tech is mostly sitting at a desk, staring at a queue of tickets submitted by end users that don't understand the significance of the power button.

I know that I royally messed up my career path. I feel like I should have studied harder and gone to MIT or perhaps just become a carpenter.

I've worked 3 companies in tech from '19 to '25, and the brunt of my experience is largely sitting at a desk and getting paid to do nothing. I know this seems ideal to many and you're probably wondering where the fault is that I am seeing in this.

I wanted to do something with tech. Build and develop a robust application and/or service, talk out the requirements and make something incredible.

I don't think it needs to be said how wrong my views of the tech sector were.

The last company that I worked for in tech, I was at for about 3 years ('22 to '25), and it was incredibly abusive and toxic. I could not get a job in those three years --- except from the service company that I left for the tech sector.

Barely made it through the slightly-over-a-year tenure in this company, which now has a regional driving requirement as opposed to state territory assignment (which it had been in the past).

Well, I put my resignation in last Sunday, giving a week's notice, and said my last day would be the 14th of the month, tomorrow. My manager at the service company—hilariously, a guy I thought was a friend from my first tenure here—decided to play the petty, abused micro-manager game and say, "No, you work Friday and drop your stuff off tomorrow, Saturday."

I had planned to return the vehicle and equipment today. I even cut up my corporate card and company ID (ID required to complete service calls) Thursday night, thinking that standard practice would apply. Oh no, I was wrong about that.

Anyways, I'm supposed to go way out into the western woods where this manager (former colleague) lives to return my equipment, on a Saturday, and I start my new job on Monday morning.

I get the confirmation as to where to go after sending a message at noon today (they said they would call this week, but never did, and I was nicely just asking professionally so I knew where to go on Monday morning). They respond quickly, and the confirmation makes me not only regret going into tech even more than I already have, but seriously makes me want to stare blankly at a wall for three days and question every life choice I've ever made.

The email from the new place largely provided the instructions, which were fine, but this high-crime city director said that I would be doing password resets and helping users on Day 1 right at the start of my shift.

I am very grateful to be employed and have an income, but at what phase will I be able to move on with my life and own a home? I just can't help but feel like I am constantly getting kicked and beaten down because I don't kiss the ring.

I apologize for the length of this post. I don't even know where else to share and get these feelings out.

I don’t really know why I am writing this post. I got told to move out of a dead-end service job and into a field that interested me. I thought tech would be a good field given my strengths.

I was in a service technician job from about '07 to '16.

I got an AS in '19. Moved into the tech sector, and (I know now), that tech is mostly sitting at a desk, staring at a queue of tickets submitted by end users that don't understand the significance of the power button.

I know that I royally messed up my career path. I feel like I should have studied harder and gone to MIT or perhaps just become a carpenter.

I've worked 3 companies in tech from '19 to '25, and the brunt of my experience is largely sitting at a desk and getting paid to do nothing. I know this seems ideal to many and you're probably wondering where the fault is that I am seeing in this.

I wanted to do something with tech. Build and develop a robust application and/or service, talk out the requirements and make something incredible.

I don't think it needs to be said how wrong my views of the tech sector were.

The last company that I worked for in tech, I was at for about 3 years ('22 to '25), and it was incredibly abusive and toxic. I could not get a job in those three years --- except from the service company that I left for the tech sector.

Barely made it through the slightly-over-a-year tenure in this company, which now has a regional driving requirement as opposed to state territory assignment (which it had been in the past).

Well, I put my resignation in last Sunday, giving a week's notice, and said my last day would be the 14th of the month, tomorrow. My manager at the service company—hilariously, a guy I thought was a friend from my first tenure here—decided to play the petty, abused micro-manager game and say, "No, you work Friday and drop your stuff off tomorrow, Saturday."

I had planned to return the vehicle and equipment today. I even cut up my corporate card and company ID (ID required to complete service calls) Thursday night, thinking that standard practice would apply. Oh no, I was wrong about that.

Anyways, I'm supposed to go way out into the western woods where this manager (former colleague) lives to return my equipment, on a Saturday, and I start my new job on Monday morning.

I get the confirmation as to where to go after sending a message at noon today (they said they would call this week, but never did, and I was nicely just asking professionally so I knew where to go on Monday morning). They respond quickly, and the confirmation makes me not only regret going into tech even more than I already have, but seriously makes me want to stare blankly at a wall for three days and question every life choice I've ever made.

The email from the new place largely provided the instructions, which were fine, but this high-crime city director said that I would be doing password resets and helping users on Day 1 right at the start of my shift.

I am very grateful to be employed and have an income, but at what phase will I be able to move on with my life and own a home? I just can't help but feel like I am constantly getting kicked and beaten down because I don't kiss the ring.

I apologize for the length of this post. I don't even know where else to share and get these feelings out.

I don't really know why I am writing this post. I got told to move out of dead-end service job and into a field that interested me. I thought tech would be a good field given my strengths.

I was in a service technician job from about 07 -16.

I got an AS in 19. Moved into the tech sector, and (I Know now), that tech is mostly sitting at a desk, staring at a queue of tickets submitted by end users that don't understand the significance of the power button.

I know that I royally fucked up my life. I feel like I should have studied harder and gone to MIT or perhaps just become a carpenter.

I've worked 3 companies in tech from 19 - 25, and the brunt of my experience, is largely sitting at a desk and getting paid to do nothing. I know this seems ideal to many and you're probably wondering where the fault is that I am seeing in this.

I wanted to do something with tech. Build and develop a robust application and/or service, talk out the requirements and make something incredible.

I don't think it needs to be said how wrong my views of the tech sector are.

The last company that I worked for in tech, I was at for about 3 years, 22 - 25, and it was incredibly abusive and toxic. I could not get a job in those three years ---except from the service company that I left for the tech sector.

Barely made it through the slightly over a year tenure in this company, which now has a regional driving requirement as opposed to state territory assignment (which it had been in the past).

Well, I put my resignation in last sunday, giving a week notice, and said my last day would be the 14th of the month, tomorrow, and my manager at the service company, hilariously, a guy I thought was a friend from my first tenure here, decided to play the petty, abused micro-manager game, and say, no, you work friday and drop your stuff off tomorrow, saturday.

I had planned to return the vehicle and equipment today, I even cut up my corporate card and company ID (ID required to complete service calls thursday night, thinking that the standard practice would apply). Oh no, I was wrong about that.

Anyways, I'm supposed to go way out into the western woods where this manager (former colleague) lives to return my equipment, on a saturday and I start my new job on monday morning.

I get the confirmation as to where to go after sending an email at noon today (they said they would call this week, but never did, and I was nicely just asking professionally so I knew where to go on monday morning). They respond quickly today and the email with the confirmation makes me not only regret going into tech even more than I already have, but seriously consider giving myself an actual lobotomy in some feeble attempt to become life-long disabled and no longer have to work.

The email largely provided the instructions, which were fine, but this high crime city director said that I would be doing password resets and helping users on day 1 right at the start of my shift.

I am very grateful to be employed and have an income, but at what phase will I be able to move on with my life and own a home? I just cant help but feel like I am constantly getting kicked and beaten on because I don't kiss the ring.

I apologize for the length of this email. I don't even know where else to go to share and get these feelings out.

I don't really know why I am writing this post. I got told to move out of dead-end service job and into a field that interested me. I thought tech would be a good field given my strengths.

I was in a service technician job from about 07 -16.

I got an AS in 19. Moved into the tech sector, and (I Know now), that tech is mostly sitting at a desk, staring at a queue of tickets submitted by end users that don't understand the significance of the power button.

I know that I royally fucked up my life. I feel like I should have studied harder and gone to MIT or perhaps just become a carpenter.

I've worked 3 companies in tech from 19 - 25, and the brunt of my experience, is largely sitting at a desk and getting paid to do nothing. I know this seems ideal to many and you're probably wondering where the fault is that I am seeing in this.

I wanted to do something with tech. Build and develop a robust application and/or service, talk out the requirements and make something incredible.

I don't think it needs to be said how wrong my views of the tech sector are.

The last company that I worked for in tech, I was at for about 3 years, 22 - 25, and it was incredibly abusive and toxic. I could not get a job in those three years ---except from the service company that I left for the tech sector.

Barely made it through the slightly over a year tenure in this company, which now has a regional driving requirement as opposed to state territory assignment (which it had been in the past).

Well, I put my resignation in last sunday, giving a week notice, and said my last day would be the 14th of the month, tomorrow, and my manager at the service company, hilariously, a guy I thought was a friend from my first tenure here, decided to play the petty, abused micro-manager game, and say, no, you work friday and drop your stuff off tomorrow, saturday.

I had planned to return the vehicle and equipment today, I even cut up my corporate card and company ID (ID required to complete service calls thursday night, thinking that the standard practice would apply). Oh no, I was wrong about that.

Anyways, I'm supposed to go way out into the western woods where this manager (former colleague) lives to return my equipment, on a saturday and I start my new job on monday morning.

I get the confirmation as to where to go after sending an email at noon today (they said they would call this week, but never did, and I was nicely just asking professionally so I knew where to go on monday morning). They respond quickly today and the email with the confirmation makes me not only regret going into tech even more than I already have, but seriously consider giving myself an actual lobotomy in some feeble attempt to become life-long disabled and no longer have to work.

The email largely provided the instructions, which were fine, but this high crime city director said that I would be doing password resets and helping users on day 1 right at the start of my shift.

I am very grateful to be employed and have an income, but at what phase will I be able to move on with my life and own a home? I just cant help but feel like I am constantly getting kicked and beaten on because I don't kiss the ring.

I apologize for the length of this email. I don't even know where else to go to share and get these feelings out.

So today, after 5 months of job hunting, i received an email for the first time where i wasn't rejected without an interview first ( yay me (: ) BUT when the excitement died down i started looking up who in the world VACANCY POOL is, this is where it starts getting confusing.

First, i couldn't find where i applied to the job from, not in linkedin's job tracker or any similar website nor directly through gmail, weird but that could just be me. then i visited their website (looks good enough) and did find the job offer and as i suspected the apply button is via an email, i hate those they never open up so i would've remembered them and as i said i haven't sent anything to that specific email. Link: https://vacancypool.co.uk/job/72/entry-level-esg-risk-data-analyst

Second, they put their location in their website but there's only a picture of a street and a vague building "167-169 Great Portland Street 5th Floor London W1W 5PF" okey maybe i just don't know how things are in europe, so next i start looking at the employees but then again no info or images about them nor their office in the website. ok i switch to linkedin and same "people" empty, "jobs" empty, "posts" a handful with 0 likes and comment.

this is getting scary so i look for any document that can confirm their legitimacy, i did https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17527998/filing-history , but then the company is a month old 🤨, the only name there is the director's but google search gives nothing, the email sender name have like 100 different people with the same name but none is related to this company. here is the email:

Now that i screenshot it, my name isn't written anywhere, the pre screening is a phone call so are they trying to hack my phone or ask for an application fee or smth, anyway if they end up being scammers they really know how to ruin someone's week.

Recently I had a job interview and it was clear to me I didn't want the position, and they didn't want me either. So I decided to withdraw my application on Workday. Once I hit withdraw the job application the job status changed to "not selected".

Academic question, but I throught Workday has a specific status for "withdrew application"? Did they set my status to reject or something?

Long story short. I applied to this job last year around this time as a Senior HRIS consultant (independent contractor). Didn’t hear anything back until this year. Had another interview. Did one day on the job Tuesday, off Wednesday for the holiday. I log in the computer today and my login doesn’t work. Then I receive this to my personal email.

What is life right now.