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Both interviews were very good. The second with Ly was really candid and disheartening to hear really. TBF it seemed like she really didn't like what most recruiters or hiring managers were doing, but just hearing that all your suspicions about how much ass-pulling goes on in hiring are probably valid is hard to swallow. Honestly if you took a lot of her advice out of context you could probably reapply most of it to dating. I get that soft-skills are important, but to hear people debate stuff like if setting your linked in to "actively looking" for work makes you appear desperate and undesirable is so shallow.

Hopefully, more suspicions will be confirmed with further episodes :)

Totally! Some decision-making forces in the market are 100% based on superficialities, ya know. The purpose of the show is to illustrate that. So engineers protect themselves from those shallow judgments. And learn how to get more offers because they understand the game better. Not like it, but learn it.

"Open to work is an anti-pattern" and "We only want candidates who have worked at Google" are equally shallow models some recruiters actually use. I wish it was all less biased.

This is the 2nd episode of Offer Town, a show for engineers about practical, playful, & unconventional tactics to get offers, promotions, and paid what we're worth.

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