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Per the marketing on the side, this is meant to be for my benefit in order to earn "points" and get offered "deals." I don't think I have to tell you that I did NOT install the app, and just walked further to buy one from a vendor.
There is a massive arrogance problem within tech. Everyone thinks their product should be the center of everyone else's universe. The best products are invisible/get out of the way.
We had 1200 applications for an extremely niche role. A huge amount were clearly faked resumes that far too closely matched the job description to be realistic. Another huge portion were just unqualified.
The irony is that there actually _are_ a ton of exceptionally qualified candidates right now due to the various layoffs at government labs. We actually _do_ want folks with an academic research background. I am quite certain that the applicant pool contained a lot of those folks and others that we really wanted to interview.
However, in practice, we couldn't find folks we didn't already know because various keyword-focused searches and AI filtering tend to filter out the most qualified candidates. We got a ton of spam applications, so we couldn't manually filter. The filtering HR does doesn't help. All of the various attempts to meaningfully review the full candidate pool in the time we had just failed. (Edit: "Just failed" is a bit unfair. There was a lot of effort put in and some good folks found that way, but certainly not every resume was actually reviewed.)
What finally happened is that we mostly interviewed the candidates we knew about through other channels. E.g. folks who had applied before and e-mailed one of us they were applying again. Former co-workers from other companies. Folks we knew through professional networks. That was a great pool of applicants, but I am certain we missed a ton of exceptional folks whose applications no actual person even saw.
The process is so broken right now that we're 100% back to nepotism. If you don't already know someone working at the company, your resume will probably never be seen.
I really feel hiring is in a much worse state than it was about 5 years ago. I don't know how to fix it. We're just back to what it was 20+ years ago. It's 100% who you know.
In government work programs in British Columbia, we were taught to address every point or requirement in a job listing that we could. Is this tactic clearly distinguishable from clearly faked?
My unsolicited advice to people wanting to visit the city has always been to not go during UK long weekends and if they're only looking for drugs and sex, that both can be sourced closer to home.
The branch of the family that still farms has a neighbour that has their son use his drone to zip out over the fields and check on their irrigation system.
Just tie your line through a hole in a soup can and put it over the muzzle before firing a spud.
Actual chip foundries are no sweat shops.
Regardless of the skill set needed to do the job, being able to tolerate repetition with no pause outside of break times and adhering to instructions whether they understood their necessity or not was what made for a good Assembler; it wears most people out. I would joke that to be a successful assembly line/cell worker you needed to view each new unit as a visit from an old friend and not own guns.
My experience (in BC) is that the amount of skill/cost of your assemblers can vary.
Where I have worked, low volume production of relatively complex products required more skilled/trainable people because they ended up putting the whole thing together and they were paid well; some sub assemblies could be handled by less technical/skilled Assemblers.
On higher volume lines, if we needed highly skilled workers then it was a sign that we should look at the process and break up or farm out the steps that needed them.
^Actual chip foundries are no sweat shops.
I know nothing about semiconductor production, but maybe they can be sweaty shops? A room can 21 degrees, but if you're in a bunny suit...
The symptom of wanting to give up is because you aren't growing fast enough
The symptom of founder turmoil is because whatever strategy you're currently using isn't growing the company fast enough
The symptom of running out of money is because you're not hitting your sales targets
A similar thing seems to apply to marriages: If the money and sex are good, any other BS in life is easier to tolerate.