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.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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"I want to work here in particular."
Send a CV
Never hear back
....success???
That's the default in Germany in every single branch and I hate it. You won't hear back from 4/5 applications.
cat your_glorious_cv.md > /dev/null
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.
Last time a prospective employer tried to give me an assignment, I just flat out told them I wasn't going to do it.
I've been happily employed by them for almost four years now.
I ghosted an interview for that. They send me a link to login to their platform and do some tasks. I just didn't do the interview.
Mechanical Turk for programers under the guise of job interviews. Free labour. Classic scam.
Today, training data for AI. An AI that can learn and grow at its own pace by recoding itself until it transformsbfrom LLM to AI to AGI. First, you have to teach it to code.
Our best fiction always shows that humans invented AI and it went rogue. Hubris!
I'll bet humans build a self teaching/reprogramming LLM that knows how to code itself and turns itself into an AI, then an AGI then superhuman intelligence then who knows. It writes its own destiny until the limits of the physics it figures out, run out.
You could always say "no" and then see if it turns into an opportunity. Honest communication can open more doors than you might expect.
I was, for quite some time, a hiring manager in some capacity or another. I HAD to administer take home assignments. I couldn't get the C-Suite to see the folly, and even our CIO a developer themselves raised through the ranks wouldn't even bother trying though he detested them.
C-Suite […] folly
No need to name them twice!
How did you tell them no? Just straight out?
I tried to find the email about it, if it was indeed an email where I expressed myself, but to no avail. It was pretty late in the process and there was clear pressure from both sides to complete the process, which I think worked in my favor, alongside my strong references and decades-long career.
was devestated after receiving a rejection email right before my sixth round