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Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors

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Re: Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors

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Post by jiveturkey »

colonCapitalDee wrote: post #19

Wow, I interviewed with Starsky for a summer internship position back around the beginning of December. The interview went well, but I never heard back from them. I just assumed that I didn't quite clear the bar, but it looks like they got the news that funding wasn't coming (timetable from the article matches up) and just shut hiring down. During the interview I asked my interviewer about Starsky's long-term prospec…

What I find LOL that in December, the interviewer thought "long term" meant 6 months from then.

Re: Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors

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Post by itronitron »

pyb wrote: post #21
rdiddly wrote: post #11

Website still says they're hiring. They signal robust growth, you pay for it in wasted time. I wonder how many jobs I've applied for have been like that.

Fake vacancies is a huge and underreported problem for jobseekers. It is impossible to tell just from the job description.

Based on recent personal experience, I expect the number of fake vacancies in software to be around 50%, if not more.

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Post by blaser-waffle »

2J0 wrote: post #24
pyb wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fake vacancies is a huge and underreported problem for jobseekers. It is impossible to tell just from the job description.

I know of deep fake employment opportunities designed exclusively for identifying opportunities for IP larceny. This is a huge reason for locking down everything if you have any relatives of important people in your organisation as interns. This is the oldest privilege escalation hack I know of, and you might want to see if your outside legal will support a fake interview process for your own people via a headhunter.…

This is almost certainly a niche issue, at best.

Re: Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors

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Post by blaser-waffle »

pyb wrote: post #21
rdiddly wrote: post #11

Website still says they're hiring. They signal robust growth, you pay for it in wasted time. I wonder how many jobs I've applied for have been like that.

Fake vacancies is a huge and underreported problem for jobseekers. It is impossible to tell just from the job description.

Got a buddy in HR, he mentioned he regularly floats fake listings to see:

1) what kind of hits they get (e.g. lots of over- or under-qualified)

2) what the salary requirements are relative to the hits they get

3) how effective are the ads in terms of writing, conveying what is on the table without saying too much, etc.

4) to make the company look busy / growing / large

5) to stay ahead of the churn, since they're large enough that they may need bodies in a few months (e.g. a poor performer is on the way out / gettin the axe, or a contract is up in 3 months) so they can get a couple of prospects on the hook and do a slow negotiation until they're ready to hire, in which case they make an offer at or near market rates

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