How to Get Hired in 2025 • Hacker News Board

Re: How to Get Hired in 2025

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Post by Lapsa » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 9:43 AM UTC

KellyCriterion wrote: post #10

oldestofsports wrote: post #6

You use AI to turn a few bullet points into a fleshed out CV. The recruiter uses AI to summarize your CV into a few bullet points.

The thing is: You are not sure about this - lately I had an interesting experience: I was contacted by hiring firm and asked for my CV. We set up a phone call later on, she said: Since she was too lazy for the english version, she put it into ChatGPT - then we went through it and I was shocked: The system missdeclared lot of positions, esp. the one with some special legal status et. After that, maybe this is my probl…

very likely employer just wanted to see how gullible you are

Re: How to Get Hired in 2025

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Post by Lapsa » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 9:55 AM UTC

kittikitti wrote: post #7

I've had people accuse me of using AI for code that I created before 2019, and they just doubled down when I pointed it out on public version control. The industry is full of toxic people and developers who just put others down. I hope there's a way out because I'm not going to stop coding even if I tried. It might be years before these people get promoted until they don't review code and all the AI hate caused by fe…

they just want your submission - you are supposed to call your code as AI generated cause that gives them an edge in goofy global AI race

Re: How to Get Hired in 2025

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Post by EGreg » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 11:59 AM UTC

oldestofsports wrote: post #6

You use AI to turn a few bullet points into a fleshed out CV. The recruiter uses AI to summarize your CV into a few bullet points.

This. I remember in 2012 TechCrunch disrupt hackathon overnight making “Birthdays” to satirize how Facebook systematically helped society cheapen the word “friend” and “like”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om4_F0VFIdI

It has only been downhill from here. Now my AI wishes happy birthday to your AI which thanks it. Thoughtfulness at scale!

Re: How to Get Hired in 2025

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Post by more_corn » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 4:35 PM UTC

ctln wrote: post #5

Well, I was expecting another type of content. I’m looking for a job (software engineer) since two months ago and I haven’t landed a single interview. 0. Null. Nothing. I don’t know if the problem is my age, or the fact that people are not reading cv’s anymore because an AI recruitment software is analyzing the applications, or if there aren’t enough jobs out there. Back in the days, finding a new job was always supe…

By all accounts the job market is wildly different than it was a few years ago. I’m curious how much AI is being used to screen. I see some guys on LinkedIn with prompt injections in their profiles, I wonder if that would work.

Re: How to Get Hired in 2025

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Post by 12345hn6789 » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

eulgro wrote: post #3

So we're supposed to hand out poorly done work on purpose because the AI manages to do it perfectly? That's just stupid. It's the companies that should change their interview process.

These articles are the equivalent of your coworker sending you an AI generated pull request without himself reviewing it first.

Did the author of this article review it? Is their entire position that to differentiate yourself you have to do lessor work because AI is perfect? Are they suggesting that AI / LLMs are better than humans?

Re: How to Get Hired in 2025

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Post by soraminazuki » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 9:46 PM UTC

eulgro wrote: post #3

So we're supposed to hand out poorly done work on purpose because the AI manages to do it perfectly? That's just stupid. It's the companies that should change their interview process.

> because the AI manages to do it perfectly?

Who told you that? Not the article for sure.