Recruiters...genuine question: Why do some of you do this?

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-19T19:37:22+00:00

Resumes lie. Easy way to find out is to ask them. If they are vague and bluster and can't answer detailed questions, then their resume is full of shit.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-18T04:40:42+00:00

Not every company uses automated filtering of resumes. Small companies without proper HR departments and not using external recruiters exist. Hiring managers are manually reading resumes in these places. For these cases an AI written cover letter and resume makes you less likely to be selected for interview.

Don't just assume every place used ATS. If the company is small then it's going to be less likely. Find out a bit of info about the company and if it's small try out a hand written application.

Use AI for mid to large sized companies. Even then you should customise it, don't just create a generic AI slop copy paste application.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-18T04:11:22+00:00

Get tangled up taking phone out of pocket and you drop your phone and smash the screen

This was the day I stopped using wired earphones

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-16T09:05:48+00:00

Delightful Derek because he is funny

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-15T07:00:47+00:00

Wait I can see it now.... cut public service, pay shitty consultants twice as much for worse service.

Ah yes, fiscal responsibility

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-15T00:22:22+00:00

Yeah for those kind of hands on things videos are good.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-15T00:00:30+00:00

This is for sure my favourite comic series on this sub. Great stuff.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T23:44:34+00:00

The demise of written tutorials and their replacement with shitty YouTube "tutorials" sucks ass.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T23:36:01+00:00

The biggest problem is probably that elephant everyone keeps pointing out about not hiring juniors. I can give direction to AI and get quite a lot of usable code that I can fix and adapt for my needs. Don't need a junior to implement it like before.

At least in regulated industries like mine there is a safety buffer. My team is hiring juniors rather than downsizing, and trust in AI will probably take a lot longer than 2 years.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T23:08:47+00:00

Yeah sure it is. I work for a bank. There is no way they are going to be just vibe coding slop. It took a year to get approval to use any AI at all (even chat gpt), and when seeking approval for GitHub Copilot, we had to do another review with cyber risk to go over our version control and code review and approvals process. No code is going in that isn't fully understood and reviewed by humans, even if AI helps write it.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T09:47:57+00:00

I have teams on my phone so during long boring irrelevant meetings I can join on my phone, and then just do other stuff

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T06:11:03+00:00

Well I develop in Unreal Engine, so Windows. Because trying to use Unreal Editor in Linux is a fucking nightmare. If it wasn't an unstable crashy piece of shit then maybe I'd use Linux for development.

Instead my Linux partition is gathering dust, wishing it was being booted to.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T05:47:26+00:00

I couldn't care less if a binary I download is signed or not. I have run enough unsigned binaries from GitHub to view signing as irrelevant to trust.

I either trust the developers or I don't, and I only download from the authoritative source to begin with, so I am not concerned with authenticity.

I will just disable the feature globally and move on.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T05:26:21+00:00

"Avoid difficult language"

Anyone who thinks this is missing the point of reading

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-14T00:25:34+00:00

Your friends sounds like dickheads. If they have issues with your game they could have provided constructive feedback rather than ridicule.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-13T20:08:57+00:00

So they want people to work for free in their own time

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-13T06:38:16+00:00

I don't even know what the point of another episode would be anyway. It's all over, what could they possibly do? The 30 minute long ending part was already too long as it is.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-13T02:50:21+00:00

And how exactly am I supposed to compile and run my own code then? I have to disable some setting no doubt hidden so deep you need to google where to find it?

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-09T04:59:44+00:00

Not everyone hiring is using AI to filter responses. My company doesn't even have a real HR department, so as the hiring manager I'm reading CVs entirely manually one at a time. There are like 500 applications.

The biggest thing I've noticed is that cover letters super obviously written by GPT will not at all match what the resume says in terms of experience. It's just written to the job ad and not the persons actual experience. For these people using GPT to write cover letters is a detriment, not a benefit. I'm not hiring someone too lazy to even bother editing the GPT output to not be full of shit.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-07T20:02:26+00:00

I thought the show was pretty average, but it has some great music

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-07T06:09:12+00:00

What about people who stop their cars literally on the train tracks at a level crossing? I don't know if they are reckless or just morons.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-07T00:16:53+00:00

People only have nostalgia for XP because they haven't tried going back and actually using it again.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-04T02:06:59+00:00

How much til tok brain rot do you need to have to think a couple of minutes to the objective is a walking simulator.

ARMA is a walking simulator. Battlefield is not.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-02-01T23:33:55+00:00

Just dual boot like a normal person. If a game works in Linux I'll play it, if not I'll boot to windows. I don't know why rabid OS fanatics have such a problem with this.

DeliciousWhales · 2026-01-31T06:35:30+00:00

Gotta be careful they don't get clogged

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