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I once cancelled an interview process because the recruiter, after rescheduling twice at the last minute, never appeared on the interview. To top it off, when I told the recruiter how disrespectful the attitude was and that I would be withdrawing from the process, they asked for one last chance because "they had been having back to back calls the whole day".

I'd have let that slip, but then I saw they called me Sergey (my name is Ignacio)...

moral of the story: each person has their own tolerance for mistreatment. Mine, personally, has thinned. Life is too short to eat shit while grinning.

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It's amazing the extent to which companies' recruitment departments don't have their shit together. I periodically get recruitment E-mails from a well-known FAANG company, but they are addressed to "Romane" when my name (not Romane) is clearly spelled out directly in my E-mail address. On one hand, I could write back and correct them and set up a call, but on the other hand, do I really want to go work for a company so sloppy and careless in their human interactions that they can't even get someone's name right? If you're so "excited by the background listed in my resume" then maybe you ought to look up at the top of the resume where my name is.

I do have a litmus test on my linkedin that if passed makes me much more comfortable continuing the conversation: I ask people to tell me their favourite food :p

I'd say only 5 % actually read that (even if the relevant conversations are higher than 5%, I have yet to see an irrelevant one that included the food topic).

That’s a good one. I have a much more basic litmus test on my LinkedIn - adding an emoji before my first name. If they haven’t removed the emoji I know it’s an automated message, and it’s surprising (although not really) how many messages are. I ignore anything with the emoji in, so I know the person messaging has at least minimally engaged in reading my profile.

I've had this test on LinkedIn for years now too. It helps me filter inbound mail more easily.

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