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This is exactly what they are. The HR person just needs to rule out the weirdos and North Korean hackers!

You would be foolish to not have that (very easy) chat with the Hr person just to progress

you have to ask, why are they getting weirdos and north korean hackers. that's the reason i dont want to engage with these kind of companies.

if you're talking to hr at stage 1, it just means the automated system validated your application has all the right keywords. its a red flag for me.

At my old startup I probably interviewed 80-100 people for all roles, from sales to SE. We’d have 3 rounds, the 1st being a quick 20min chat over the phone/call as a sniff test.

HR would do those to filter bullshitters, but also set expectations on culture, salary, work etc. If the person came from a huge bank and is joining a 50-people team, they need to understand the difference in work environments.

So I’d second other comments saying that I wouldn’t rule out a company just because HR is doing triage.

Edit: typo

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