Send a CV
Never hear back
…success???cat your_glorious_cv.md > /dev/nullThat’s the default in Germany in every single branch and I hate it. You won’t hear back from 4/5 applications.
Well it was a few years ago, but I had a response rate of 30%
However one response of rejection was amazing. Almost one year later I got the mail.
Don’t forget to add the assignments that take days.
I don’t mind the assignments if they aren’t too big. If they are, which is quite rare, I just tell them it is too big.
Rather have an assignment than some stupid live coding meeting.
was devestated after receiving a rejection email right before my sixth round
Going through this right now.
Side note: what the hell kinda George Costanza level lies are you people telling to get hired in this market? 17 years of experience with AI? It’s 17 years of experience with AI isn’t it.
“I want to work here in particular.”
The Fix:

Send a CV with Java experience
HR asks about some old native JavaScript Shenanigans
Get rejected as CV is “obviously fake”
Repeat





