Signed up for Cluely and regretting it - it literally invented jobs I never had
Maybe this is my own fault for buying into the hype on linkedin...but here goes.
I've been a faithful job hunter for about four months now - last two of them have been with cluely on the pro tier. It served me ok-ish for the first few screens, despite the lag and the weird overlay placement. I'm switching careers, so my resume is short and every word counts.
I switched up a bit this round - for behavioral I let cluely handle the live suggestions during the call. For a panel loop with three back-to-backs at a mid-stage saas company I figured I'd lean on it the whole way through. Open the overlay, line up my notes on the side, sling my resume into the profile and I should be good.
First test of the new system started last tuesday with a hr screen, then a hiring manager call, then a peer chat. First two went ok - small lag, suggestions were mostly fine, nothing crazy.... walked into the third call feeling alright and as the peer asks me about my last role the cluely overlay coughed up a paragraph about a project I led at a company I have literally never worked at.
Obviously I caught it before reading anything out loud, but it's not great, and I don't think it's unreasonable to be irritated and a little upset with whatever model they're routing this through - my resume was right there in the profile, I had pasted it in twice - not like I was asking it to make stuff up or some red bull fueled prompt engineering shit.
Anyway - I'll file screenshots and shit like that for the refund window when I get home, but meanwhile I've had to manually re-read every suggestion before opening my mouth like some kind of paranoid intern through the whole peer round, the take-home review, and now the last call on friday.
Thanks for letting me vent.