Re:Hiring and the market for lemons (2016)
by perl4ever on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:02PM
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>Fit is incredibly dependent upon the individual giving a shit about that problem space.
Amen.
That should be obvious, but I don't think I've ever had any recruiter or phone screen where they acknowledged that in any way.
I responded to a recruiter recently by asking what the company actually did, and they reacted like I was just hamfistedly demanding the company name or prematurely trying to research for the interview, but I really just wanted to know - what would I actually be contributing to the world in this job, never mind the technical challenges, the buzzwords, and the paycheck.
It's like everyone is assumed to be at best apathetic to the larger context of their job, apart from delusions of grandeur about "changing the world".
Amen.
That should be obvious, but I don't think I've ever had any recruiter or phone screen where they acknowledged that in any way.
I responded to a recruiter recently by asking what the company actually did, and they reacted like I was just hamfistedly demanding the company name or prematurely trying to research for the interview, but I really just wanted to know - what would I actually be contributing to the world in this job, never mind the technical challenges, the buzzwords, and the paycheck.
It's like everyone is assumed to be at best apathetic to the larger context of their job, apart from delusions of grandeur about "changing the world".