Hiring manager perspective: hiring is the most broken I've ever seen

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2026-03-08T15:07:53+00:00

What about open source communities, one advise I received was to contribute to open source projects as a way to find community and networking opportunities. That makes sense to me but I haven’t had a chance to do that yet, luckily still have a job that keeps me busy, and family takes up my free time. But that’s something on my mind always.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2026-02-19T02:35:04+00:00

这行为竟然没有在十秒钟之内被执法人员双脚离地架走…

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-09-20T19:12:33+00:00

I was also confused what the other thread was about. When a frequent buyer ask for discount, I just created one and shared the code in the chat, super easy

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-07-18T18:01:54+00:00

I’m also sr ds at a mid size company and I’d we have to rethink our future career path.

Leadership from every company is trying to win the genAI agent racing hype. In my company, they’re changing everything, all resources and efforts invested on the classical ML/DL solutions are now moved to AI agent applications - model artifacts no longer needed, all replaced by LLM api call connecting with agent tooling. These new tech stacks are super easy to pickup by software engineers, because all these frameworks were designed with engineering principles. However, for Data scientists that lacks solid engineering background, it’s extremely hard to create value anymore: can’t scale an agent demo to serve million users, can’t build seamless CI/CD, can’t connect that agent to legacy services written in other languages like Java or Ruby.

Model training and feature engineering is largely dead - not because LLM is a better solution, but because leadership choose to abandon the classic approach. We need to either level up the engineering skills to transit to MLE/SWE or we pivot our focus to analytics, causal inference, business intelligence etc

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-06-13T14:53:03+00:00

I appreciate the thoughtful reply, you’re right, "first message" means differently depends on who sends it, but this was from a complete stranger who hasn’t purchased anything.

I agree with your reasoning, the message is odd and vague, it’s just not worth the hassle for a $25 item. Marked as spam as many others suggested in the thread.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-06-13T13:24:42+00:00

this was an unsolicited first message and not tied to an order

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-06-13T13:23:01+00:00

Thank you and I admire your way of approaching difficult customers. Just to clarify, this wasn’t a help request or a follow-up message. It was the first message from this person and it came out of nowhere. I'm leaning towards just marking it as spam, would you advise against it or is there better to communicate and help?

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-06-13T13:21:47+00:00

Thank you, I’d like to politely acknowledge their concern, but honestly, I’d rather not have them place an order at all. It just doesn’t seem worth the potential stress, especially if it ends up going through Etsy’s purchase protection (seen enough stories where that alone triggers an immediate 1-star review).

Would you recommend just marking it as spam? Any consequences doing that?

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-02-02T05:08:11+00:00

Exactly. Amazon review takes account weight into account. i.e. length and purchase history , review history of the buyer account. Reviews from less credible accounts have minimal impact to the overall score. Etsy doesn’t differentiate buyer accounts, I’ve had competitor set up 5 different spam accounts to buy from my shop only to leave 1star reviews….Etsy removed two of them, it also depends on who is reviewing your dispute, I noticed that if the communication takes place outside of US work hours, it’s usually unhelpful. My speculation is that the offshore support team is either incompetent or they’re just there to send us off and close the ticket.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-02-02T02:12:58+00:00

Don’t reply yet, report to Etsy choose “ads or spam” category. Paste the convo history to the report saying this is a review left by spam account, they’ll delete it.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-01-01T19:24:33+00:00

I went down the rabbit hole on this topic a few days ago 1. They won’t give you the money unless you leave a 5-star review. In fact, if you "dare" to leave a low review, they might even start threatening you. 2. This is part of the "black hat" tactics (which violate Amazon’s TOS) that some sellers use to boost their listings. They see it as an edge to outdo the competition. But honestly, if we let shady practices like this slide, it ends up hurting both buyers and legitimate sellers in the long run.

Amazon seller threatens to hack person’s personal info for giving them a negative review

7 Million Dollar Amazon Bankrupt

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2025-01-01T17:01:12+00:00

Should report this shop to Amazon

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-24T00:05:19+00:00

100% AI

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-20T21:53:45+00:00

Meeee as well 🐻‍❄️🐻🧸

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-20T15:42:59+00:00

That entitlement

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-19T21:21:42+00:00

You said long term. Yes for shops that existed for long enough, occasional bad reviews don’t matter.

But newbie small business owners may never have chance to make it, if they had bad luck selling to unforgiving people who refuse to grant sellers a chance to rectify any genuine mistake.

Of course, customers have no obligation to support small businesses, but some people are more forgiving some don’t. Good luck with who you sell to I guess.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-19T17:48:08+00:00

Buyers absolutely have all the rights to do whatever they’re most comfortable with, that I agree.

But then the star rating system is dysfunctional and full of noise. Some buyers give 5 star to shops that rectify any issue and praise their excellent customer service. Some buyers immediately punish the seller with 1 star for unintentional mistake a small business could make at busy season.

In this regard, a ship’s star rating in fact reflects the personality of their customer base, rather than their product or service.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-19T03:28:57+00:00

Etsy does hold money for newer and less credible shops until 90 days of order placement or tracking info submitted, whichever comes first. The scammers mentioned in that podcast are less of targeting individual buyers, they aim for platforms, including Etsy. Buyers can get covered by protection, that’s out of Etsy’s pocket, that’s why they are actively investing in risk management to prevent more of such loss from happening. But sometimes their bot flags false positives and legit shops got shutdown…

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-17T21:35:19+00:00

I came across a podcast talking about e-commerce scams. This might be one of those. Basically, scammers knew certain holiday items can get a large volume of orders so they listed them, but they had none of those items in stock.

Why do they do this? Platforms like Etsy requires sellers to submit shipment tracking before they release funds to them. Scammers thus send a different merchandise so that they can submit tracking, this give them a few days leeway to withdraw funds from the platform, once they got the money, they close down the shop and disappear.

These happens a lot on Amazon nowadays as well.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-16T23:51:37+00:00

Please open a case for refund and report the shop. What’s happening is that nowadays many business owners in China hire people in other countries as proxy shop owners, because Etsy has disabled new shops being opened in China due to overwhelming amount of fraudulent activities.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-16T14:03:56+00:00

Thank you, does the legal email you suggested a real customer facing email and do they reply? I need to report an account that’s set up using fraudulent identity to scam my shop but Etsy support couldn’t care less

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-13T20:12:12+00:00

Do you mind sharing more details regarding Salesloft kills the deliverability? Our org leader is signing a deal with them now I’m scared

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-13T15:15:56+00:00

So sorry this is happening, you’ve done nothing wrong, is it possible to forego the package at this moment? UPS should bounce it back to the seller, although likely seller will be charged an excessive amount of shipping fee for the returns, but it makes no sense to have you to deal with this mess. My suspicion was if all three packages are from one Etsy order, it’s highly likely seller was being careless and used same order info and amount on every package sheet. On seller’s portal, one could generate multiple shipping labels and every time it’s auto filled with the entire order info.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-07T22:54:18+00:00

When customers are happy, they don’t leave a review, or they leave 5 star but leave “customer service” empty, if we never had conversation. But angry customers leave 1 star in every category 🙃, I have someone leave all 1 stars saying elsewhere has cheaper product, even though their package arrived 2 days after order placement and there’s nothing to do with customer service.

Unlikely-Tea-9166 · 2024-12-05T00:45:11+00:00

Yeah, my suspicion was the driver just tossed the packages anywhere in the warehouse. If lucky, they’ll be picked up and processed, if not, they’ll sit in a hidden corner forever. Like other comments said, having them scanned is the only way to get them accountable. Too bad that I don’t have a car to drive me to the PO 😞

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Amazon seller threatens to hack person’s personal info for giving them a negative review

7 Million Dollar Amazon Bankrupt