not-serp-api
You at Serp API took applicants for granted.
Now we'll reduce the flow of applicants.
What kind of game did you think you all were playing? "Screw these engineers, we can just kick them to the curb like trash. Hahaha! Who cares? They're disposable, they can't do anything about it."
See how that works? Ohh how the tables turn...
Don't worry-- You guys don't value job applicants anyway, as demonstrated by your behaviors. You won't miss them.
Note: I am choosing to treat your leadership like they treat job applicants: I am not giving you feedback.
Instead, I am giving feedback to everyone-- right here in this thread. And in next month's thread. And the month after that. This is what happens when you disrespect people with whom you share a open, public forum.
I think it's best if we all learn together.
Does Serp API provide feedback to rejected applicants, when those applicants put hours into their take-home project or test?
Given that no answer has been given on this, I assume the answer is No.
That was my experience and the experience of 1 person who commented, and possibly the 7 people who upvoted the initial reply I made.
That's basically punishing engineers-- disincentivizing them from applying to your company (and other companies who do this).
So, I am just here to let all Engineers know:
Serp API will not respect the time you put into applying to their company.
As is the case with many companies.
We engineers should all speak up about these practices. Companies will change if it effects their brand.
You negatively effect my resources? OK, I'll do the same back to you. Let's all play the game of not respecting each other and see where it gets us.
--> Not providing feedback after engineers invest their time into your interview process (such as via take home project or tests) is a Policy of your company <--
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Verdict: I am hereby revoking your ability to freely post on Hacker New's monthly "Who is hiring" for the foreseeable future.
If you're still hiring for those roles next month, I'll be here next month too to tell people to beware of your time wasting shenanigans.
Good luck.
The chickens have come home to roost.
Let this be a warning to all hiring teams: Treat engineers with dignity and respect. You're in our community, and on our platform: the internet.
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Sorry is "I'll actually do something about this to improve our process."
And yes, you're correct-- You have title-inflated (and probably ego-inflated) "Directors"-- not managers.
Also-- Why can't you hire anyone in the biggest glut of software engineers in years?
If you can't hire people in this hiring climate, the problem is you/your staff, not the candidates.
You and your hiring managers made your bed. Now sleep in it.
Now get out of here with that BS. Your company has likely already interviewed dozens of engineers capable of exceeding the duties required, as outlined in the job descriptions.
Your hiring managers must be looking for certain submissive tendencies and other exploitable personality traits... or they only want to hire people less qualified than themselves so they don't face any competition for their own roles.
Also: Your managers are given the title "Director" at a company with what... 15 staff? Title inflation much?
Even if I did email you with my experience-- What would I get out of that? I am no longer interested in working for your company-- I have a sense of the people, policies, & culture there now.
If you're not actively involved in monitoring the people you've trusted to not treat engineers like door mats... then competing companies who treat engineers with dignity will hopefully outcompete you.
Yes-- "dignity", as in: taking 2 minutes to provide feedback when the person has put 2 hours into your "a monkey with a keyboard successfully complete this" interview project. Frankly it's disgusting behavior to ask people for hours and not give them a few minutes of common decency, especially given how ludicrous your managers' hiring standards are.
Does it surprise you that many of us are sick of the unilateral exploitation of interview processes like yours?
...The smiling, kind-spoken interviewers, acting like decent people who then demonstrate their true colors only once the interviewee has decided to invest in the process.
Ahh yes, let's ignore them and provide no feedback-- Because engineers are disposable non-human entities with infinite time and resources.
Let's make this into some silly game where we don't actually intend to hire anyone-- No, ours is a process intended to insult the intelligence and resource constraints of our applicants.
I am sick (and I am sure many others are as well) of company owners not monitoring the levels of silliness & frankly anti-social behaviors & anti-social policies of their hiring staff & interviewing procedures.
Frankly I am fed up with corporate owners, management, & HR to the extend that I feel schadenfreude from the confirmations of others here who echo unprofessional or low quality experiences.
- If you have access to all the email threads which your hiring managers are involved in: You can go see how your hiring managers are treating candidates. If I were you I would have the hiring managers send all email threads (the interview-related email threads) your way, and audit the performance of the hiring managers, with the consideration of "Does this behavior make us look like a-holes?"
- Are you in any way monitoring 1. the candidates who come through, 2. the candidates rejected (with reasons for rejection) 3. the candidates accepted into the next interview round (with reasons for acceptance)?
- Do you have any incentives for hiring managers to respond promptly to candidates? Or any rebuke for waiting more than 7-10 days to take 5 minutes to review a take-home assignment?
- Do hiring managers wait 2+ weeks to respond?
- Do candidates have to check in during that 2 week+ wait to ask for basic feedback about the interview, because your hiring managers are twiddling their thumbs, on vacation (without a vacation reply email) and/and trying to find nuclear engineers & brain surgeons for jobs involving giving product demos & answering emails?
- Do they claim "we cannot provide feedback", to candidates who put hours into interview take-home projects?
- Are hiring managers afraid to hire people more qualified than themselves?
they will waste your time