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The meeting stated that cameras were required. No problem.

I had mine on since the start, but the recruiter didn't. We get into introductions for 2 minutes and then she says "okay I'm going to be recording now". That wasn't even mentioned and she didn't have hers on from the start. I turn off my camera before the one second mark of recording. From there I can tell the energy shifted and don't care if I get the job.

Shouldn't there be an unsaid etiquette to have both parties turn their cameras on for professionalism sake? If cameras are required, both should have it turned on. I'm not going to be recorded with video and the other party just has voice enabled like she's interrogating me with questions into my ears.

Someone please deinfluence me from going to nursing school! 😭 I want to go so bad but everyone who works as a nurse that i talk too tells me it’s a bad idea and that I shouldn’t become a nurse.

I started a new job I was really happy to get. The pay was good and the same work as my previous job, just a bit farther in distance. I was excited that it was nonprofit despite the other one and had a union.

That excitement turned into annoyance and this is my second week of being here. I since learned that while the nonprofit part stood, the union is not that good. They made a deal with the company that required employees to have to use PTO on the 5 big holidays. One of them being Memorial Day.

I can’t use PTO till 90 days of employment, which I was fine with since I’ve dealt with that before. So I asked what I do and they said I would have to go on lwop (leave without pay) for that one day.

I thought to myself…Ok. I‘ve never not been paid for a holiday before. In fact at the old company I got paid time and a half for working on holidays.

So I decided to accept two job interviews for jobs I’ve applied to previously and they reached out this week. If they offer me something and the pay is right I’m writing a heavy detail to HR and everyone I know there as to why I’m leaving so suddenly.

The interviews are on Monday. Which I’m grateful I was allowed to schedule them on that day since it’ll make the day off worth. Wish me luck!

I worked at LinkedIn for 3 years. Some things you should know.

Easy Apply is a black hole. One job post is like 800 applications. The recruiter filtered by Premium users and stopped reading after about 20

The "Open to Work" banner is bs as well, I heard it in internal meetings multiple times hiring managers saw it as a red flag but LinkedIn never told anyone this.

Most jobs were already filled internally before the post even went live. HR policy just required a public listing. This happened constantly.

Stop applying through LinkedIn. Start talking to people on it. Completely different outcomes. hope this helps!

Has it always been this bad, or is AI making it worse?

Are Unions the only way to protect the middle class with companies clearly abusing contract workers and H1Bs in the US, with the future of AI and humanoids, and so much more.

Companies making record profits, but still doing layoffs. S&P500 higher than ever, but the average American only seeing decline.

Is uniting and forming unions really the only way to protect ourselves?

As the title says I am thinking about quitting my job to focus on my music career as a singer and songwriter.

I’ve been working this job since I was 16 and I am 23 now. I’ve been doing shift work for the last three years and it‘s draining me completely. Can‘t really focus on making music after work because I am tired most of the time. And I’ve been telling myself I‘ll quit and make it work for the last 3-4 years but I never do because I earn a decent amount of money for my age and it’s a very secure job.

I “quit” making music a couple of times and told myself I’ll switch to a completely different job or that there are so many artists out there that nobody needs my songs anyways and many other excuses. But the music STILL always found it’s way back to me and it filled me with joy everytime.

And everytime I let somebody listen to my songs I always got positive feedback (like fr because I tend to be very strict with myself and don't trust positive opinions, thinking that I am being lied to🫩)

So my plan is: 1.moving in with my parents until the end of the year to save as much money as possible 2.quitting my job so I can focus on my music for the first 3-4 months and see how it goes 3.moving in with my girlfriend in january.

My girl is moving to the capital city of our country and I could live with her rent free (we both agreed that would be perfectly fine, I paid our rent for the last 2 years).

I am sure that moving away, quitting my job and doing something completely different would benefit me in the long run and I am only 23 so I feel like now is the right time to try things before it‘s too late.

And I also feel like moving to a big city will give me more opportunities and connections.

Should I do it or not ?

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I am currently a SDE2 and have a total work experience of 8 years and working in one of the FAANG company for last 8 years and current l based out of India I want to move to UK but after applying through LinkedIn to over thousand openings haven’t received any calls from anywhere. Can someone help to guide me through which company offer visa sponsorship in UK and if there are any consultancy services I should book for this

Just looking to vent really, got the feedback today that I didn’t get a senior executive role because I was too professional and too polished/prepared for their questions.

Really felt like I knocked the interviews out the park, had great examples of my real life experiences for each question in every round because I literally lived through that shit but end of the day was just too good?!

In hindsight one main standout moment for me is they added a meet and greet with the team to my interview block but it wasn’t that at all, was actually just the team asking questions about how I work in a toxic environment since each question was focused on conflict they experience with cross functional teams lol. Honestly felt more like career development for the employees because they seemed like they could barely handle public speaking tbh.

Probably for the best because I don’t want to change that about how I show up in a work environment but just sucks to lose out on a job for something I consider a positive in most corporate offices.

I want money, I want to pay my rent and not get evicted.

If you want me to, I can recite your company's mission statement, but let's please stop this game where I act like I give a flying frog about how you plan to change the world.

EDIT:

I think y'all are misunderstanding, yes I know how to BS an interviewer and brownnose.

My point is that if I wanted to act and put on a show, I'd go to my local theater and get a part in Hamlet, not waste my lunch hour on Zoom

I had a phone interview scheduled for 2pm today. 2:09 rolls around and no call so I reach out to her. She goes “I said I’d call as close to 2 as possible, my last call ran long and I’m still taking notes, I’ll call back.” Okay fine, things happen. But when she called back there was no apology, instead she doubled down and said she never said it would be exactly 2pm and she said it would be as close to 2pm as possible.

Ma’am. What does “as close to two as possible” even mean? 1:40? 2:30? 2:30 is technically close to 2. If she had just said “I’m so sorry my last meeting ran long” I would have been completely fine. Instead she made it seem like I was in the wrong for expecting a scheduled 2pm call to happen at 2pm. Okay.

It gets better.

Throughout the entire interview she stopped me FOUR TIMES to say “can you slow down? I need to type exactly what you’re saying.” She was manually transcribing the interview word for word. I was already speaking as naturally slow as I could but apparently that wasn’t slow enough for her typing speed and she kept saying I was talking too fast. Could she not take notes? A recording? AI tools? What do you mean you’re transcribing what I say word for word by hand.

Then she tells me the salary maxes out at $96K. The job posting (which I can still see on Ladders btw) says $85K-$108K. And then she said “no one we’re interviewing would get $96K anyway because that means you meet ALL the job requirements and no one meets all of them.” I went back and checked. I meet almost all of them. 🤧

Travel requirements were also nowhere in the job posting. This role is in Arlington. She casually dropped mid-interview that I’d need to travel to Baltimore and DC “sometimes.” I asked how much travel is “sometimes.” She said it can vary. I asked for clarification. She said she couldn’t say for sure. A commute to Arlington is very different from a commute to Baltimore so like that’s kind of important information???

Towards the end of the call, I asked what kind of candidate they’re looking for and she said they need someone who is “always available.” ALWAYS. AVAILABLE. For a salaried position. With an undisclosed amount of travel. And a salary lower than advertised. Sure.

Oh and her entire tone throughout was condescending. Like I was inconveniencing her by showing up to an interview SHE scheduled???

I withdrew my application. I may need a job but I don’t need it bad enough to deal with this level of disrespect every single day. Some red flags are worth listening to.

Anyone else dealt with recruiters like this? I’m genuinely baffled. I guess companies think they can just do whatever they want with the state of the job market.

I did get a job already at a restaurant as a shift lead, which is going to pay the bills while I go back to school, but I ended up getting a phone call from an auto parts store I applied to a few weeks ago and figured let’s just see what they want. Well they wanted to do the phone interview on the spot which I did and it was nerve-racking because they we’re pressing me and asking questions as if I was applying for a government or high-end white collar job. She kept questioning my experience and took me going back to school as a red flag. Ended the phone interview only to be told that I would have to go into an in-store interview and then an interview at the district offices with the district manager. All that just for a position that pays $16 an hour selling auto parts and delivering parts. Thanks but no thanks, I make more as a shift lead after tips.

According to Indeed, I’ve applied at 137 jobs in the past few months.

One, only one, called me for an interview. It was actually a role that I have A LOT of experience in but I never heard back until I called myself and they fed me nonsense.

I got in a car accident and lost my job in January. God forbid, someone needs a few days off to find a vehicle! Since then I’ve had that one interview.

I wasn’t injured in the accident. They fired me because I couldn’t get there for 2 days. The day of the accident and the following day.

I’m not applying to things I know I have no chance of getting. It’s stuff within my experience but still no response.

I’m about ready to just hop on a freight train and just wander. If they’re gonna make jobs so difficult to get why even bother?

I shouldn’t need a screening call, 3 interviews and magic powers to get a job packing boxes in a warehouse. This is ridiculous.

I’m fed up and that nomad lifestyle is looking more appealing each day. Hell, I could pack my bag and just start waking the Appalachian Trail until I’ve saw the entire east coast. That sounds much more appealing than what I’m doing now.

Thanks for reading my rants.

With today's Meta (8000) cuts and the wave of tech layoffs this year (110,000+ across 137 companies so far in 2026), a lot of people are about to enter a job market that looks different from what they're used to.

If you've been in big tech, your interview experience is probably coding rounds, system design, and behavioral questions. That's the loop you know how to prepare for.

But a huge number of companies outside big tech use cognitive assessments as part of their hiring process. Companies like Spring Health, Stryker, General Mills, and hundreds of others use the PI Cognitive Assessment, a timed 50-question test that measures how quickly you process information under pressure. You usually get the link after the recruiter screen and before deeper interviews.

The reason this catches people off guard is that it's not about what you know. It's a speed test. 50 questions, 12 minutes, covering verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, and pattern recognition. Most people don't finish, and that's by design. Your score determines whether you move forward.

A few things I wish someone had told me before I took one:

• There is no penalty for guessing. If you're running out of time, fill in everything.
• The questions rotate randomly, so you can't memorize answers from a study guide. What you can do is get comfortable with the format and pacing.
• 14 seconds per question is the average. If you spend more than 20 seconds on anything, skip it.
• Verbal questions (antonyms, analogies, sentence completion) are usually the fastest to answer. Numerical word problems take the longest. Know your strengths and play to them.
• Take it in a quiet room, on a computer, with nothing else open. The 12 minutes go faster than you think.

If you've never encountered one of these before, taking even one timed practice test beforehand makes a real difference. You don't want the first time you see the format to be the real thing.

Happy to answer questions if anyone is prepping for one.

maybe there’s an advantage since everyone is applying for the newest posted jobs. obviously don’t do just that, apply for the newest ones and scroll to the bottom of the list for the old ones, only if it’s quick apply though and requires barely any effort.