> And if I were looking for a job right now, I’d feel pressured to fake it. Either I’d feel like an impostor, or I’d feel resentment for trying to boost my emotional commitment to a coding project to an unrealistic fever-pitch.
Software recruiting seems designed to produce one of two goals:
1. Repeatedly break your heart, or
2. Turn you into a psychopath you can fake the passion and interest and dedication that companies demand at the very first step of the interview, when they know they flush out 90% of the people at that stage.
And, remember, this is what it's like when the market is good for employees.
I agree with this. Yet it doesn't explain why recruiters are running wild and everyone including your neighbour weeps about "shortage of developers" in the market. Is that because they absolutely feel obliged to waste time of 99 candidates with their IKM Java 6 tests so they could get their dream guy to work for a "X market leader" on their "ground breaking" project?
* Companies don't have a good idea what they want or need
* Which leads to awful, tone-deaf, nonpredictive interviews
* And every startup founded is a net loss in filled jobs, which means hiring intensifies while people who the founders want to hire—people like them—get spread out ever thinner and would rather take investment to start companies than get back on the market. When eventually they need to hire too, their contribution to the problem grows.
Yeah, but I guess it's a likely phenomenon, if they're renting you.
In _Disciplined Minds_, I read that power systems are fine with people faking. It's a kind of obedience. You know exactly what's happening, yet you conform. And that's all they want.
Software recruiting seems designed to produce one of two goals:
1. Repeatedly break your heart, or
2. Turn you into a psychopath you can fake the passion and interest and dedication that companies demand at the very first step of the interview, when they know they flush out 90% of the people at that stage.
And, remember, this is what it's like when the market is good for employees.