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Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data

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Post by travelinmyblood »

cqqxo4zV46cp wrote: post #7

HN would be up in arms if “developers” were painted with the same brush to the degree that HN stereotypes basically every other profession.

As a marketer this hits home .. we’re responsible for making sure the devs, who get paid double what we do, can pay their astronomical rents and Uber eats habits

And the level of disrespect we receive in order to do so..

Edit -

I’m no longer in the tech industry and this is a big reason why.

I was never treated poorly per se, but I was always treated as a second class citizen. Salaries, responsibility, seniority .. you begin to realise that there’s a glass ceiling which you’ll struggle to break through.

The breaking point for me was when after conducting a detailed analysis of some data using Looker, an entry level engineer was tasked with making sure my analysis was correct. (I was the most senior marketing employee at a company with a $200m Val and reported to the CRO.)

And then his correction of my analysis - which was accepted unquestioningly - was littered with mistakes.

Once we had gone through it together; he had corrected his report and apologised to me.

Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data

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Post by _lvbh »

Pretty interesting read as someone looking for an internship and getting rejected by just about everyone. My experience line up pretty well with their observations, though a bit more explicit. They state the fact that they’re competitive and very specifically that they want “Cambridge-level” students. I doubt they even looked at the rest of my portfolio.

> would AI do better

Oh please don’t. I would rather be rejected by a fallible human than some paper clip maximizing algorithm that holds no responsibility

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Post by _lvbh »

smallstepforman wrote: post #9

The software engineering world is fortunate to have the concept of open source, which allows filtering of candidates based on previous published work. Since today we have many open source active candidates, it makes selection much easier compared to unknown candidates. My advice to job seekers - you’re reducing your employment chances if you dont have example projects published.

What sort of open source projects would you recommend to grab a recruiter’s attention?

Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data

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Post by krapht »

_lvbh wrote: post #13

Pretty interesting read as someone looking for an internship and getting rejected by just about everyone. My experience line up pretty well with their observations, though a bit more explicit. They state the fact that they’re competitive and very specifically that they want “Cambridge-level” students. I doubt they even looked at the rest of my portfolio. > would AI do better Oh please don’t. I would rather be rejecte…

If you're not Oxbridge, the AI would actually give you a leg up in applications.

Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data

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Post by _lvbh »

krapht wrote: post #17
_lvbh wrote: post #13

Pretty interesting read as someone looking for an internship and getting rejected by just about everyone. My experience line up pretty well with their observations, though a bit more explicit. They state the fact that they’re competitive and very specifically that they want “Cambridge-level” students. I doubt they even looked at the rest of my portfolio. > would AI do better Oh please don’t. I would rather be rejecte…

If you're not Oxbridge, the AI would actually give you a leg up in applications.

I’ve had gitroll.io used on me before and it failed to detect any valid repository on my GitHub profile, had to manually show them my profile but at that point, they were already suspicious/doubtful. There is no way to tell what the AI hallucinated unless it’s outrageous and you get told

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Post by 5350-uiop-1130 »

neontomo wrote: post #10
5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #5

we (developers) used to gatekeep recruiters, and now recruiters gatekeep us. where did we go wrong...

what is your own theory on what happened?

saturation of both devs & recruiters, with the bottleneck being HR.

Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data

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Post by kwertyoowiyop »

A good article. And then below it? Links to the usual leetcode-style questions that have little to do with job performance: invert a left-handed negative tree, etc. How about: figure out why that critical cloud function silently fails 0.1% of the time?
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