Ask HN: What do you see as red flags in a job application process?

Post by warrenm » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 12:40 PM UTC

kody wrote: post #9

Red: - You can do anything (frontend backend ci/cd backend product management IT) - We’re a family here - Yeet ninja 10x rockstars, “you friends see you as a badass hacker” (yes I saw the latter in a job description) - 120k - 165k for a junior position I haven’t gotten enough jobs to have a clear green flag filter, but my most delightful interviewing experiences have been take home projects to demonstrate ability to…

Post by shetill » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

warrenm wrote: post #20

shetill wrote: post #17

- bad Glassdoor reviews or not enough reviews (I would be looking for at least 1k reviews to consider a company). Anything 4+ stars with 1k+ reviews should be good - most adverts coming from random (and new) 3rd party recruiters outside the companies themselves. They hire these recruiters because they know their role/company is shit and no one would apply otherwise - any 200 people or less company (most startups are…

>any 200 people or less company I'm pretty much the opposite - if you're more than a couple hundred ... you're probably crap

Post by kody » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 4:29 PM UTC

warrenm wrote: post #12

kody wrote: post #9

Red: - You can do anything (frontend backend ci/cd backend product management IT) - We’re a family here - Yeet ninja 10x rockstars, “you friends see you as a badass hacker” (yes I saw the latter in a job description) - 120k - 165k for a junior position I haven’t gotten enough jobs to have a clear green flag filter, but my most delightful interviewing experiences have been take home projects to demonstrate ability to…

>my most delightful interviewing experiences have been take home projects to demonstrate ability to reason about a domain that pertains to the job for which I’m applying I can't figure out if you're being serious ... or if that's raining sarcasm