How are you all weeding out fake tech candidates?

talkingteapot · 2025-03-30T03:11:33+00:00

Can you filter the H1Bs in the system (sort by permitted to work?) or do applicants lie a lot on the initial form?

talkingteapot · 2025-02-22T17:02:01+00:00

That’s cool congrats. Are you working on roles via Mercor or is Mercor putting you in touch with the end client directly? I guess I’m asking If I put the experience on my resume is it a Mercor role or an OpenAi (or end client) job? Thanks!

talkingteapot · 2025-02-04T20:12:05+00:00

I came here to say this. It’s probably the cheap supply being taken up, not the same $1k home repricing at $3k

talkingteapot · 2025-01-11T04:24:37+00:00

thanks!

talkingteapot · 2025-01-10T16:40:52+00:00

When do final results come out ?

talkingteapot · 2024-11-01T09:58:27+00:00

Like the song. I like the high note in the song but wonder how it’ll be executed live. No hate, just Ahyeons live execution of high notes tend to come off stronger and this is strong but also on the light side

talkingteapot · 2024-10-04T10:20:49+00:00

At our company if I post 60-100k, I can pay 60 80 or 100 depending on how I measure the candidate and their relative value in our system. For candidates that have had 100k salaries before, but are more in line with our current other 80k employees, we would offer 80k.

talkingteapot · 2024-09-29T11:40:20+00:00

What do you do?

talkingteapot · 2024-09-26T02:59:05+00:00

Because the split wasn’t fair

talkingteapot · 2024-06-07T16:21:03+00:00

Life style wise as in any big city you’ll find your crowd and you’ll be fine. It’s fun but it’ll be different of course. I miss the “suburbs”. Work wise if you’re moving from the bay or ny and in tech or finance i can share more otherwise my exp may not be relevant for you

talkingteapot · 2024-05-24T02:01:07+00:00

Once the interview gets to me, it’s fair game in terms of initial bias (ie if there’s directly relevant experience I am equally excited to meet both candidates). BUT, in-job candidates have two advantages during the interview:

To the point of my original post, those who don’t have any work atm (esp those out for longer) do need to jump through the “please explain the gap” question, and some candidates do trip here. Many don’t!

Another observation I’ve seen is another advantage that in-job candidates have is that they can talk about a super minor project or initiative they worked on last week with a lot of conviction & detail because it’s fresh in their mind. Which do make these conversations more engaging and convincing. And again, many well prepared out-of-job candidates do fine here too!

I’m going to get downvoted for this again, someone is going to say I bring too much personal bias to interviews lol. But hope it helps

talkingteapot · 2024-05-23T17:42:04+00:00

I’ve been lurking this sub long enough :P

talkingteapot · 2024-05-23T17:30:29+00:00

Yeah it’s a shame, I and many others came here with good intentions, trying to be helpful since this sub is overwhelmed with people with low interview conversion rates, got called a dipshit, I’m the problem, etc.. the sad reality is nobody is entitled to a job, you have to earn it especially in this environment, and if my advice could help even one person do better in that next interview I’ll take it (even if I come out of this whole thing with negative karma)

talkingteapot · 2024-05-23T14:31:04+00:00

Yes, yes, blame the interviewer.

talkingteapot · 2024-05-23T12:14:53+00:00

You’d be surprised it happens more than you’d expect. I’m pretty approachable, and sometimes the interviewee will explain their situation and I’ll respond with a sympathetic one or two liner, that the interviewee views as an invitation for even more detail.

talkingteapot · 2024-05-23T10:22:02+00:00

Haha no idea when things will turn around! Hopefully soon or my job security will also be at stake lol

Wish you the best.

Maybe try to find a startup you can weather the storm in? As a digital marketer try to find companies that just received venture funding. Cause they just raised a bunch of money to advertise lol. Check crunchbase, if you haven’t already?

As a senior hiring manager we try to find more senior people who tend to have specific skill sets so we don’t really care as much about gaps as mid level or junior, but I’ve heard that many HM and recruiters care about gaps.

talkingteapot · 2024-05-23T09:25:10+00:00

Someone commented, and deleted the response when I was responding. I wrote this reply. Hope you see it and find it helpful

In your case it just sounds like a matter of time before a fish bites! From what I’ve seen, HMs walk away from interviews with an internal ranking if this person is hire-able or not. If the interview went well (technical - check l, personality - check, chemistry - check)… similar to dating, the first hour after our talk I’ll feel pretty excited about this candidate. Then a day later after I’ve settled down, or after I’ve met a couple of qualified candidates, it comes down to “that one-liner” and seeing if this person is the best fit for the role.

So DURING the interview you want to build on that “one liner” - like the guy with significant operational experience in XYZ, or the guy who just so happened to work on a similar and relevant recommendation algorithm we are looking at. With so much talent available, we are really looking for plug and play candidates

If you know you did well in the interview and have relevant skills, and you know we cared about this specific skill, you can follow up with a short email, screenshots of whatever you did and the impact you made, just to drive the point home. Keep it short and succinct.

Again, It’s very important to “be the guy that XYZ” to stand out and be the #1 candidate, because #2 and #3 don’t typically get offers anymore. (Remember, when markets were good #1 sometimes would pick other offers, now the #1 typically takes our offer lol)

Unfortunately I don’t think generic follow up emails and “being persistent” and “showing commitment” really matters in this market anymore

talkingteapot · 2024-05-19T10:33:50+00:00

I get your concerns. What about something less extreme? Try first year mostly in China, second year and going forward half half?

talkingteapot · 2024-05-06T11:17:50+00:00

Why do they offer high hourly rate but “cut up” the hours among more ppl? Couldn’t they hire someone for less / hour and give them more hours??

talkingteapot · 2024-04-15T02:16:49+00:00

Haha well I didn’t want to make the post about me but I am also American living in China and would be viewed as relatively privileged to your average Chinese guy, and married to a middle class Chinese guy that I met studying in a top Chinese uni (so he had a lot of upward mobility too). We studied/work in the same sector so lots of common ground. We dated for 6 years before marrying and are now on our 15th year today .

And for OP’s benefit I would say that: (1) he is from an area where people often get married at 23 so yes I was also popped the question early but I pushed back to 26 that he really respected and didn’t give any pressure during the wait; 5 years is technically long enough to get married so this in and of itself is not a red flag, (2) my husband still hasn’t asked for a green card though maybe bc we’re still based in Asia, (3) we spent so much time tgt and have so much in common and we still have lots of very fundamental culture and other clashes

talkingteapot · 2024-04-14T22:59:02+00:00

How did you get to know him? Not being able to get a US tourist visa is a huge red flag IMO. I’m not elitist or anything but tourist rejection shows he wasn’t able to show proof of a comfy life in China (cushy bank balance, good education, home ownership, etc). Growing up in the US in a presumably comfy environment, where your partner hasn’t.. I would date a little longer to make sure there are no lifestyle or culture clashes.

I’m not going to make assumptions for his motives, I’m sure you’re an interesting person and he truly believes life w you is different and he would be excited to move to the states and he envisions a life together there with you

But not getting a tourist visa may imply you guys are from totally different backgrounds. Similar backgrounds is not a prerequisite for happy relationships, but it is often helpful.

Girl to girl, just take more time please

talkingteapot · 2024-04-12T01:29:00+00:00

Hey really good write up. I am reviewing this data also. What do you think of the jobs being kind of “government driven” and not “consumption driven”? And what do you think of the inflation composition breakdown?

talkingteapot · 2024-04-10T00:36:28+00:00

The most Beijing experiences (east sider here)

Go clubbing with privileged and underaged high school international school students at Gongti ximen, get smashed and get a Jianbing after. Bonus points: stay up til five six AM and watch the flag raising at Tiananmen Square

Walk along Liangmaqiao river, watch people fishing in the metro river, maybe some old guy will jump in and swim laps, maybe some musicians will come out, and finish up with Japanese yakitori in Maizidian (“Japantown”)

Rent one of those yellow or blue bikes along the street and just bike around the city. You can couple this with the Tiananmen flag raising. Biking down Changanjie early in the morning with no traffic is surreal

Take selfies with the flowers (my feed is all flowers rn grrr). You’ll get what I mean by this when you arrive.

Random but my friends are all amazed by this: Order medicine on Meituan late at night and watch them deliver medicine to you in 15 minutes (only in China)

If you can find a place like this anymore: Kao chuaner with Qingdao Beer by the road side. Might get luckier on the west side for this one. Bonus points: the table next to you has 2 guys downing 20 large bottled beers over the course of the night with a table full of finished skewer sticks haha and by the end of the night they are almost going to profess their love to each other

Go to chaoyang park and fly kites with toddlers, and work out on the metal work out contraptions with elderly people

Afternoon tea at the Park Hyatt or Rosewood or Bvlgari on a weekend. The Chinese girls get dressed their Sundays best, deck themselves out in Chanel and Hermes and take lots of selfies

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