Interview like an asset, not a beggar

Re:Interview like an asset, not a beggar by Jakobeha on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:18PM (#25172012)

It's probably because these companies have so many good applicants, and they're big enough that a "great" junior engineer can't do much more vs a "good" one. So they're not looking for top engineers, they're filtering out bad ones and then basically choosing at random.

Unfortunately, if there are many more potential employees then you're going to be a beggar no matter what. If you're applying to companies who only get a few applicants per position, then you have leverage and the companies actually have to look for quality.

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Re:Interview like an asset, not a beggar by _qulr on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:33PM (#25172164)

> If you're applying to companies who only get a few applicants per position, then you have leverage and the companies actually have to look for quality.

Unfortunately, a lot of smaller companies simply cargo cult on BigCo hiring, as that's all they know. I see smaller companies who have unfilled positions for 12 months or more, because they apply the same method to hiring as the company with hundreds or thousands of applicants.

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