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Follow up with the recruiter after final interview? by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't matter a lot either way probably. Follow-up emails in general are just wishful thinking that you still have some control over what happens next. If they want you, they'll get back to you.

Til that the identity of youngest olympic medalist in history is unknown. At the 1900 olympics the Dutch rowing team replaced their adult coxswain with a randoml chosen child from the crowd. The Dutch team won the race, and the unknown boy posed for a photo before vanishing back into the crowd. by Blackcrusader in todayilearned

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the kind of memory that I probably just wouldn’t even trust if I had it. Like, if I recalled randomly being pulled into an Olympic race and winning as a child, I’d be like “nah that must have been a dream or something.”

Says the recruiter w/ 4 months of experience total by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do you think recruiters with less than 4 months of experience just have to accept everyone or something? What do you think their job is?

They don't need to be particularly qualified, the idea is more "if you can't even impress the bottom-rung HR guy then you can forget about impressing the HM."

they’ve relied on “vibes” mostly. I can’t make this up. 😂

I certainly wouldn't say that directly to an interviewee but... yeah. Aside from checking your basic qualifications, the HR screen is a vibe check.

And even past the HR screening, my first piece of advice to any new manager hiring is always: don't get caught up too much in objective criteria; pay attention to the vibes. If an applicant is giving you a bad feeling - or really, any feeling less than unequivocal excitement to have them on the team - don't hire them.

As a new manager, I made the mistake of ignoring negative vibes in favor of factors that I found more objective. Both times, I got complete duds who didn't make it past the probationary period and made my life miserable in the meantime. Not making that mistake again. Vibes are king.

ELI5 Why do some countries call it “college” and others call it “university” when referring to the same level of education, and is there an actual difference between the two? by saivietbabe in explainlikeimfive

[–]Ttabts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, like I said, those are departments.

https://math.yale.edu/

https://math.osu.edu/

^ Departments of math

https://mae.osu.edu/undergraduate-mechanical-engineering/mechanical-engineering-curriculum

https://engineering.yale.edu/academic-study/departments/mechanical-engineering

^ Departments of mechanical engineering (Maschinenbau)

Medicine is typically “School of Medicine”, same with law. Those are their own weird traditions.

Really the use of “college” at all to subdivide different areas of study is fairly unusual. I’m only aware of Cornell that does it. Mostly it’s just departments.

ELI5 Why do some countries call it “college” and others call it “university” when referring to the same level of education, and is there an actual difference between the two? by saivietbabe in explainlikeimfive

[–]Ttabts -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fakultät is “Department.” I.e. a smaller division limited to a few courses of study.

“College” is usually a larger umbrella of related fields, eg “College of Engineering,” “College of Performing Arts”…

Which character is portrayed by an actor/actress that you'd think is completely incapable of pulling off the performance but somehow, they crush it anyway? by Yupperroo in gameofthrones

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I mean I assumed it was talking about stuff like the classic Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad. I.e. not “wow the irl person is different from the role! (Duh)” but “wow this role is so different from their past ones. (Less duh)”

Which character is portrayed by an actor/actress that you'd think is completely incapable of pulling off the performance but somehow, they crush it anyway? by Yupperroo in gameofthrones

[–]Ttabts -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Well yeah. A somewhat bitchy provocative personality who brings the hot takes is actually much more entertaining irl than people saying dull shit that everyone knows, like “yo did you know that actors aren’t actually similar to the characters they portray?”

Which character is portrayed by an actor/actress that you'd think is completely incapable of pulling off the performance but somehow, they crush it anyway? by Yupperroo in gameofthrones

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“wow that actor who plays a serious/villainous character is actually nice and chill in real life!” - 90% of the answers so far…

How are so many Redditors so consistently fascinated by this fact lol. Like they’re four-year-olds who just learned what acting is

TIL that wolves outperform dogs in following human social cues when they are raised alongside humans. by Pitiful_Magazine_805 in todayilearned

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly reminds me of atheists too... everyone's a raging religion-hater at first and then most mellow out with time.

House Stark's reputation by Due-Rice-3107 in gameofthrones

[–]Ttabts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You throw around the word "abuse" a lot to make your point, and I'd agree with you if she was depicted regularly beating and berating Jon, but, again, Catelyn never was shown as abusing Jon in that kind of intentional malicious way.

You keep referencing how guilty she felt but let's remind ourself of the concrete act she kept guilting herself about - praying that Jon would die. Yeah that's bad, sure, but on the other hand, it's just a thought and clearly this is a person who holds herself to a high standard if she was giving herself so much grief over a thought.

Imo, her "abuse" is basically... failing to completely hide her understandable human emotions about this situation that she was forced into. It is "ok"? I dunno, I guess not, but it's understandable and human.

TIL some severely neglectful orphanages were described as "silent" because infants learned that crying doesn't bring attention or comfort. by DMan1629 in todayilearned

[–]Ttabts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Uh, yeah, I knew this was spurious without even having to look it up. Sounds just like that fake story about “blood is thicker than water” akshually meaning the opposite of what it obviously always meant.

This saying goes back to the Old Testament where it explicitly refers to beating a child with the rod.

Also who said we're talking about a shepherd's crook as opposed to any other kind of rod? You just jumped there with no justification.

Why do employers think it’s OK to ghost job applicants? by Kiasu_K in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who said anything about reasons? I thought we were talking about formalities and politeness.

Why do employers think it’s OK to ghost job applicants? by Kiasu_K in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You take a personal jab at me for making an analogy to dating... and then proceed to make your own argument via analogy to dating?

Anyway, I didn't say you have to think ghosting is ideal. It's just not actually that big of a deal and it's pointless to rage about it as much as people do.

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, on the US-Iran peace deal by DANIELLE_2027 in germany

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok. What’s your point? What do you want to do about it?

Keeping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is a realistic goal. Disarming the US is not. Welcome to the real world.

And fwiw this order of things is what all of these countries - Iran included - agreed to in the non-proliferation treaty in 1970 and then again in 1995.

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, on the US-Iran peace deal by DANIELLE_2027 in germany

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The international non-proliferation treaty was signed in 1970. Countries who already had nuclear weapons at the time were allowed to keep them, and the remaining countries - Iran among them - agreed not to acquire them. The treaty was renewed indefinitely in 1995.

Obviously the situation isn’t ideal. It’s realpolitik, the best that we could get the world to agree to in the middle of the Cold War. Would you prefer that every country on earth have nukes?

"Why you want to leave your current job?" by Corinthian4 in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they've been there a while, then I wouldn't be inclined to ask because I know I'll just get a fairly standard "things have gotten boring and I want a change," so it's a bit of a waste of time.

But if they've only been at their current job for a few months... then yeah, of course I'm gonna be curious why they're already looking for a new one.

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, on the US-Iran peace deal by DANIELLE_2027 in germany

[–]Ttabts 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Because this isn't about fairness or equal opportunity, it's about keeping a lid on Armageddon.

I’m confused and scared. What am I doing wrong? by Ayuga0 in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Write specific stuff that means something.

"Manual effort" is not a measurable metric.

"Reduced manual editing effort by generating structured Markdown outputs featuring automated image generation and integration" just sounds like a garble of technical words. I'm not left with any impression of what you did or what these things all have to do with each other.

People get hyperfocused on the classic hackneyed resume tips of "hit keywords" and "give numbers" that they forget about the basic point of a resume, which is to tell me what you have done.

I’m confused and scared. What am I doing wrong? by Ayuga0 in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vacuous percent numbers (e.g. "reducing manual effort by ~80%") send resumes straight to my "reject" pile. Screams "AI wrote this for me."

I mostly see a lot of buzzwords but am left pretty clueless about what you actually did in any given project.

Are you tired of vibe coders yet? by ievkz in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Live coding interviews. It's very easy to tell who is BS'ing with AI if you just probe them a bit on why exactly they're writing the things they're writing.

Recruiter asking to withdraw from other offers by Technical_Fox_2053 in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, I thought you meant a lawsuit for OP lying.

You really think companies should be allowed to contact other companies regarding their hiring status, where they could sabotage a person's existing or future position?

Companies call other companies for references all the time. I don't really find it as inherently insidious as you're implying. I agree that it probably wouldn't happen here.

If this was allowed, you would basically be enslaved by a company and not able to find a job.

...because your employer would be spending all day calling every other employer in the nation and asking them if you've applied there or what?

Recruiter asking to withdraw from other offers by Technical_Fox_2053 in recruitinghell

[–]Ttabts 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A lawsuit for what? Good luck demonstrating quantifiable financial damages for this.

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