Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job
by stevekemp on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:12AM
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I get at least one piece of junk mail a month:
"We saw your profile on github and thought you might be a suitable candidate for our open position at $CRYPTO startup.
PS you must be a US-citizen, and the job is 100% on-site"
Those things seem to be blasted out with no regard for my location - I'm not looking for a developer job anyway - but certainly not one in another country.
Spamming github users seems to be the latest growth hack, and it drives me nuts. I made all my repositories archived when I started getting hit with AI-PRs to review, but I'm reaching a point where I think my life would be easier if I just closed the account.
"We saw your profile on github and thought you might be a suitable candidate for our open position at $CRYPTO startup.
PS you must be a US-citizen, and the job is 100% on-site"
Those things seem to be blasted out with no regard for my location - I'm not looking for a developer job anyway - but certainly not one in another country.
Spamming github users seems to be the latest growth hack, and it drives me nuts. I made all my repositories archived when I started getting hit with AI-PRs to review, but I'm reaching a point where I think my life would be easier if I just closed the account.